Lei Xing

Administrative Appointments

• Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology (2010 - present)
• Member of Senior Editorial Board, American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (2010 - present)
• Director of Radiation Physics Division, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University (2010 - present)
• Chief of Medical Physics Research, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University (2007 - present)
• Member of ZRG1 (Quick Trials on Imaging and Image-Guided Intervention) section, National Institute of Health (2008 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Research Scholar of 2005, American Cancer Society (2005)
• Basic Science Investigator Award, American Society of Therapeutic Radiology (ASTRO). (2002)
• Research Scholar Award, American Cancer Society (2001)
• Concept Award for Breast Cancer Research, Department of Defense (2001)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

Juan Diego Azcona Armendariz,  Majid Badieirostami,  Colin Carpenter,  Ran Davidi,  Sarah Geneser,  Georgios Kalantzis,  Yu Kuang,  Yong Hum Na,  Guillem Pratx,  Conroy Sun,  Liangzhong Xiang,  Liangzhong Xiang,  Raiyan Zaman

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Biomedical Informatics
• Radiation Oncology

Community and International Work

• Clinical implementation of intensity modulated radiation therapy 

Internet Links

• Xing Lab

Current Research Interests

Biologically conformal radiation therapy (BCRT) and IMRT;
Metabolic imaging (MRSI, PET/CT) for tumor delineation and assessment of therapeutic response;
Radionuclide imaging based on novel tracers;
Radiological and molecular/metablolic image-guided radiation therapy;
Deformable image registration and removal of PET/CT respiratory artifacts;
Radiobiology study using molecular imaging (small animal PET, CT, MRI, optical);
Computer optimization of clinical decision-making and internet medicine.

Clinical Trials

• Real-Time MV/kV Image Guided Radiation Therapy Not yet recruiting
• Cervical Nodal Mets in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of H&N - MRI, FDG-PET, & Histopathologic Correlation No longer recruiting
• Endoscopic Capillary Oximetry for Tumor Diagnosis in Head and Neck Cancer Completed
• Indirect Magnetic Resonance Lymphangiography of the Head and Neck Region Using Conventional Gadolinium-based Contrast Completed
• Phase I Dose Escalation of Stereotactic Radiosurgical Boost for Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer Completed

Publications

• Registration of onboard x-ray images with 4DCT for phase verification and setup of gated radiotherapy, in press Xing L, Xu Q, Hamilton R. European Journal of Medical Physics.
• An end-to-end examination of geometric accuracy of IGRT using a new digital accelerator equipped with onboard imaging system. Wang L, Kielar KN, Mok E, Hsu A, Dieterich S, Xing L. Phys Med Biol. 2012; 57 (3): 757-69
• Evaluation of the geometric accuracy of surrogate-based gated VMAT using intrafraction kilovoltage x-ray images. Li R, Mok E, Han B, Koong A, Xing L. Med Phys. 2012; 39 (5): 2686-93
• Improved compressed sensing-based cone-beam CT reconstruction using adaptive prior image constraints. Lee H, Xing L, Davidi R, Li R, Qian J, Lee R. Phys Med Biol. 2012; 57 (8): 2287-2307
• Intrafraction Verification of Gated RapidArc by Using Beam-Level Kilovoltage X-Ray Images. Li R, Mok E, Chang DT, Daly M, Loo BW, Diehn M, Le QT, Koong A, Xing L. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012