Xun Jia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Undergraduate

Peking University (2003), Economics

Undergraduate

Peking University (2003), Physics

Graduate School

University of California UCLA (2007), Mathematics

Graduate School

University of California UCLA (2009)

• 3D/4D cone beam CT reconstruction
• GPU-based high performance computing for radiotherapy
• Monte Carlo particle transport simulation for radiotherapy

Featured Publications

Intelligent inverse treatment planning via deep reinforcement learning, a proof-of-principle study in high dose-rate brachytherapy for cervical cancer.

Shen C, Gonzalez Y, Klages P, Qin N, Jung H, Chen L, Nguyen D, Jiang SB, Jia X, Phys Med Biol 2019 Apr

Metropolis Monte Carlo simulation scheme for fast scattered X-ray photon calculation in CT.

Xu Y, Chen Y, Tian Z, Jia X, Zhou L Opt Express 2019 Jan 27 2 1262-1275

A New Standard DNA Damage (SDD) Data Format.

Schuemann J, McNamara AL, Warmenhoven JW, Henthorn NT, Kirkby KJ, Merchant MJ, Ingram S, Paganetti H, Held KD, Ramos-Mendez J, Faddegon B, Perl J, Goodhead DT, Plante I, Rabus H, Nettelbeck H, Friedland W, Kundrát P, Ottolenghi A, Baiocco G, Barbieri S, Dingfelder M, Incerti S, Villagrasa C, Bueno M, Bernal MA, Guatelli S, Sakata D, Brown JMC, Francis Z, Kyriakou I, Lampe N, Ballarini F, Carante MP, Davídková M, Štepán V, Jia X, Cucinotta FA, Schulte R, Stewart RD, Carlson DJ, Galer S, Kuncic Z, Lacombe S, Milligan J, Cho SH, Sawakuchi G, Inaniwa T, Sato T, Li W, Solov'yov AV, Surdutovich E, Durante M, Prise KM, McMahon SJ Radiat. Res. 2019 Jan 191 1 76-92

Systematic analysis of the impact of imaging noise on dual-energy CT-based proton stopping-power-ratio estimation

Heui Chang Lee, Bin Li, Xinhui Duan, Linghong Zhou, Xun Jia, Ming Yang Med Phys 2019 46 5 2251-2263

Three- Dimensional Radiotherapy Dose Prediction on Head and Neck Cancer Patients with a Hierarchically Densely Connected U-net Deep Learning Architecture

Dan Nguyen, Xun Jia, David Sher, Mu-Han Lin, Zohaib Iqbal, Hui Liu , Steve Jiang Phys Med Biol 2019 64 6 065020

A feasibility study for predicting optimal radiation therapy dose distributions of prostate cancer patients from patient anatomy using deep learning

Dan Nguyen, Troy Long, Xun Jia, Weiguo Lu, Xuejun Gu, Zohab Iqbal, Steve B. Jiang Sci Reports 2019 9 1076

Robust optimization for intensity-modulated proton therapy with soft spot sensitivity regularization.

Gu W, Ruan D, O'Connor D, Zou W, Dong L, Tsai MY, Jia X, Sheng K Med Phys 2018 Dec

4D liver tumor localization using cone-beam projections and a biomechanical model.

Zhang Y, Folkert MR, Li B, Huang X, Meyer JJ, Chiu T, Lee P, Tehrani JN, Cai J, Parsons D, Jia X, Wang J Radiother Oncol 2018 Nov

Multienergy element-resolved cone beam CT (MEER-CBCT) realized on a conventional CBCT platform.

Shen C, Li B, Lou Y, Yang M, Zhou L, Jia X Med Phys 2018 Sep

Material elemental decomposition in dual and multi-energy CT via a sparsity-dictionary approach for proton stopping power ratio calculation.

Shen C, Li B, Chen L, Yang M, Lou Y, Jia X Med Phys 2018 Feb

 Featured Books

GPU-based Fast Monte Carlo Simulation for Radiotherapy Dose Calculation. In Monte Carlo Applications in Radiation Therapy

Xun Jia, Sami Hissoiny, Steve B. Jiang (2013). CRC press

Applications of GPU-based High Performance Computing in Radiation Therapy

Xun Jia, Steve B. Jiang (Ed.) (2015). CRC press

Advanced Methods in Brachytherapy Dose Calculations. In Emerging Technologies in Brachytherapy

Asa Carlsson Tedgren, Xun Jia, Alexandr Malusek, Manuel Sanchez-Garcia (2017). Boca Raton, FL, Taylor & Francis Group/CRC Press

Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy and Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy. In Radiation Therapy Techniques for Gynecological Cancers: A comprehensive approach

Omer Burnett, Xun Jia, Elizabeth Kidd, Ann Klopp (2019). New York, NY, Springer

Monte Carlo Methods for Medical Physics: A Practical Introduction

Jan Schuemann, Xun Jia, Harald Paganetti (2019). Boca Raton, FL, Taylor & Francis Group/CRC Press

• John Laughlin Young Scientist Award
  American Association of Physicists in Medicine (2017)
• Faculty Travel Award
  UCSD (2012)
• Early Career Award
  Thrasher Research Fund (2011)
• Resident Clinical/Basic Science Research Award
  American Society for Radiation Oncology (2011)
• Norm Bailey Award
  American Association of Physicist in Medicine (AAPM), Southern California Chapter (2010)
• Young Investigator Award
  16thInternational Conference on the use of Computers in RadiationTherapy (2010)
• Outstanding Teaching Award
  Department of Physics, UCLA (2008)
• Second Class Prize, 8th Challenge Cup National Competition of Chinese College Students Academic and Scientific Achievements
  Guangzhou, China (2003)
• Tai-Zhao Scholar
  Peking University (2002)
• Excellent Student Award
  Beijing City Council (2001)
• Silver Medal and Special Award of the Most Original Solution to the Theoretical Problem III
  30th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) (1999)

• American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) (2019)
• Radiation Research Society (RADRES) (2015)
• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) (2012-2013)
• American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) (2010)
• International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) (2010)
• American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (2009)
• American Physics Society (APS) (2005-2009)