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Development of clinical hypofractionated extracranial radiosurgery."},{"lastName":"Hristov","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8011&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dimitre Hristov","firstName":"Dimitre","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Dimitre_Hristov","researchInterest":"Development and integration of X-ray, MRI and US imaging technologies for radiation therapy guidance; Design of synergistic approaches to radiation therapy delivery; Treatment planning optimization and modeling."},{"lastName":"Bazalova","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10812&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Magdalena Bazalova","firstName":"Magdalena","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Magdalena_Bazalova","researchInterest":"I have been working in three main research areas connected by Monte Carlo simulations: 1)  treatment planning for small animal radiotherapy, 2) x-ray fluorescence CT (XFCT) imaging for high-sensitivity molecular imaging, and 3) a novel concept of radiation therapy with very high-energy electron (VHEE) beams. I have performed dose measurements at  at SLAC, modeled the beamline with Monte Carlo, optimized VHEE treatment plans and done high-dose-rate radiobiology experiments."},{"lastName":"Vandenbroucke","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9335&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Arne Vandenbroucke","firstName":"Arne","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Arne_Vandenbroucke","researchInterest":"I am interested in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) physics, instrumentation, and its application in cancer diagnosis and patient management. My work focusses on PET front-end detectors, data acquisition, and system simulation. The goal is to improve spatial and energy resolution yielding a better image quality. Currently I am working on constructing, commissioning, and characterizing a high precision, 1 mm^3 resolution breast specific PET camera."},{"lastName":"Hsu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8155&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Annie Hsu","firstName":"Annie","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Annie_Hsu","researchInterest":"Current research interests are inter- and intra- fractional motion, focusing on SBRT and realtime imaging.  I have also recently been looking at quality assurance for gated VMAT delivery"},{"lastName":"Villalobos","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23326&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Victor Villalobos MD, PhD","firstName":"Victor","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Victor_Villalobos","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Xing","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4443&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lei Xing","firstName":"Lei","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Lei_Xing","researchInterest":"Image-guided intervention, MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) and radionuclide imaging (PET/CT, SPECT/CT), biologically conformable radiation threapy (BCRT), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), treatment plan optimization, optimization of stereotactic radiosurgery, image segmentation and deformable image registration, application of molecular imaging to radiation oncology."},{"lastName":"Carpenter","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiation Oncology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiation Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14333&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Colin M. 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The goal of this work is to provide significant, essential, and practical solutions to improve the treatment of disease."},{"lastName":"Jeffrey","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4147&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stefanie S. Jeffrey, MD","firstName":"Stefanie","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Stefanie_Jeffrey","researchInterest":"Dr. Jeffrey was team leader of the multidisciplinary team from the School of Medicine, School of Engineering, and Genome Technology Center that invented the MagSweeper automated technology to isolate live circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from cancer patient blood for single cell analysis. 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Clinical research interests in the late effects of radiation on normal tissues and chemical modification of radiation injury. Hodgkins's disease and late effects of radiation and combined modality therapy. Radiation sensitizers. Hypoxic cell cytotoxins. Esophageal cancers.\r\nGeneral adult and pediatric radiation therapy."},{"lastName":"Doty","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurological Surgery"},{"focus":"Complex Spine Disorders"},{"focus":"Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery"},{"focus":"Brain TumorSurgery"},{"focus":"Stereotactic Radiosurgery"},{"focus":"Pediatric Neurological Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Professor,Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Professor,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8511&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"James R. 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The creation of new radiosurgical techniques for a wide array of brain and spine disorders."},{"lastName":"Levin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Radiology - Nuclear Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor (Research) (By courtesy),Electrical Engineering"},{"appointment":"Professor (Research) (By courtesy),Natural Sciences Cluster - Physics Department"},{"appointment":"Professor (Research) (By courtesy),Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Radiology - Nuclear Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6367&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Craig Levin","firstName":"Craig","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Craig_Levin","researchInterest":"Molecular Imaging Instrumentation\r\nLaboratory\r\n\r\nOur research interests involve the development of novel instrumentation and software algorithms for in vivo imaging of cellular and molecular signatures of disease in humans and small laboratory animal subjects."},{"lastName":"Dirbas","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Accelerated Breast Radiation"},{"focus":"MRI in Breast Cancer Staging"},{"focus":"Minimally Invasive Breast Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4667&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Frederick M. 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