Department of Radiation Oncology
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
600 Moye Blvd.
Greenville, NC 27834
Phone (252) 744-2900 / Fax (252) 744-2812
Our team of physicists and radiobiologists are engaged in various research projects in the areas of:
Photodynamic therapy (PDT)
Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)
Digital Imaging
Quality assurance in radiation therapy
X-ray physics
Monte Carlo techniques for dosimetry
Gamma Knife radiosurgery
Computer modeling and visualization
High dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy dosimetry
Radioprotectors
Selected Presentations
Selected Oral Presentations
(SS-43) Cytokine Levels in Prostate Cancer Patients Undergoing Radiation Therapy (xRT): Influence of Neoadjuvant Total Androgen Suppression (TAS) Roberta M. Johnke, PhD; Judy M. Edwards, BS; Mark J. Evans, MS; T.K. Lee, MD; Hyder H. Arastu, MD; Ron R.Allison, MD. In the American Radium Society, Amsterdam, May 5-9, 2007
(SS-53) Increased Survival After Early Loading of Gliasite Brachytherapy in Resected Single Brain Metastases and Recurrent Glioblastoma Multiforme Moira C. Ferrier, MD; Ron R. Allison, MD; Kevin F. Obrien, MD; Hyder Arastu, MD; Stuart Lee, MD; Barbara E. Lazio, MD. In the American Radium Society, Amsterdam, May 5-9, 2007
Selected Poster Presentations
(P-1) The EUD-Based NTCP and TCP Models as Research Tools: MATLAB Implementation, Clinical Considerations, and Illustrative Case Hiram A. Gay, MD; Andrzej Niemierko, PhD. In the American Radium Society, Amsterdam, May 5-9, 2007
(P-15) User Variability for Setup Corrections Using a CT-ON-RAILS IGRT Systems Claudio H. Sibata, PhD; Melodee Wolfe, MS; Rajen Patel, MS; Todd Jenkins, MS; Helvecio C. Mota, PhD; Ron R. Allison, MD. In the American Radium Society, Amsterdam, May 5-9, 2007
(P-18) Toward Endobronchial IR-192 High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Therapeutic Optimization Hiram A. Gay, MD; Ron R. Allison, MD; Gordon H. Downie, MD; Helvecio C. Mota, PhD; Claudio H. Sibata, PhD. In the American Radium Society, Amsterdam, May 5-9, 2007
(P-49) The Contralateral Breast Can Receive Significant Scatter Radiation From IMRT Donald R. Sutton, MS; Edvaldo P. Galhardo, PhD; Claudio Sibata, PhD; Melodee L. Wolfe, MS; Hyder Arastu, MD; Gloria Frelix, MD; Ron Allison, MD. In the American Radium Society, Amsterdam, May 5-9, 2007
(P-50) Can Scatter Radiation From IMRT Be Significant? Edvaldo P. Galhardo, PhD; Donald R Sutton, MS; Melodee Wolfe, MS; Claudio H. Sibata, PhD; Ron Allison, MD; Hiram Gay, MD. In the American Radium Society, Amsterdam, May 5-9, 2007
(P-70) Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) Treatment Planning Claudio H. Sibata, PhD; Gladys Nangami, MS; Chris Bonnerup, MS; Ron R. Allison, MD. In the American Radium Society, Amsterdam, May 5-9, 2007
(P-71) Inter-Fraction Motion in the Brain During IGRT: Case Reports Todd P. Jenkins, MS; Hiram Gay, MD; Claudio Sibata, PhD; Hyder Arastu, MD; Gloria Frelix, MD; Ron Allison, MD. In the American Radium Society, Amsterdam, May 5-9, 2007
(P-79) In Vivo Measurement of Secondary Radiation Doses From Gamma Knife 4C Radiosurgery Helvecio Mota, PhD; Claudio Sibata, PhD; Barbara Lazio, MD; Hiram Gay, MD; Arastu Hyder, MD; Gloria Frelix, MD; S.K. Lee, MD; D. Jones, MD; K. Tucci, MD; Edvaldo Galhardo, PhD; Melodee Wolfe, MS; Ron Allison, MD. In the American Radium Society, Amsterdam, May 5-9, 2007
