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Weiguo Lu, Ph.D.

Weiguo Lu, Ph.D.

Professor

School
Medical School
Department
Radiation Oncology
Graduate Programs
Biomedical Engineering
  • Biography

    Weiguo Lu, Ph.D., is a Professor of Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where he is part of the Department of Radiation Oncology’s Division of Medical Physics and Engineering.

    Dr. Lu earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nuclear physics from Peking University, China. He also earned two master’s degrees in medical physics and computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, followed by a Ph.D. in medical physics from the same institution. He subsequently worked at TomoTherapy Inc., starting as a medical physicist and ultimately becoming their Director of Innovation and Physics. Afterwards, Dr. Lu served as 21st Century Oncology’s Director of research before joining UTSW’s Department of Radiation Oncology in 2014.

    Dr. Lu is a co-founder of Neural Rad LLC as of 2019. He is board-certified by the American Board of Radiology and holds a Texas Medical Board medical physics license.

  • Education
    Graduate School
    Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (2000), Medical Physics
    Graduate School
    Uni of Wisconsin-Madison (2000), Computer Sciences
    Graduate School
    Uni of Wisconsin-Madison (2001), Philosophy
  • Research Interest
    • Automatic and intelligent quality assurance in radiotherapy
    • Medical image processing
    • Novel image guidance and delivery
    • On-line and real-time radiotherapy planning
  • Publications
    Motion analysis comparing surface imaging and diaphragm tracking on kV projections for deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH)
    Chen M, Chiu T, Timmerman R, Gu X, Lu W, Parsons D, Folkert MR, Gu X Physica Medica 2024 Sep 125
    Proton 3D dose measurement with a multi-layer strip ionization chamber (MLSIC) device
    Zhou S, Chen Q, Haefner J, Smith W, Darafsheh A, Zhao T, Harrison NA, Zhou J, Lin L, Lu W, Shen L, Jiang H, Zhang T Physics in medicine and biology 2024 Jul 69
    Exploring Deep Learning for Estimating the Isoeffective Dose of FLASH Irradiation From Mouse Intestinal Histological Images
    Fu J, Yang Z, Melemenidis S, Viswanathan V, Dutt S, Manjappa R, Lau B, Soto LA, Ashraf MR, Skinner L, Yu SJ, Surucu M, Casey KM, Rankin EB, Graves E, Lu W, Loo BW, Gu X International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2024 Jul 119 1001-1010
    Where Does Auto-Segmentation for Brain Metastases Radiosurgery Stand Today?
    Kim M, Wang JY, Lu W, Jiang H, Stojadinovic S, Wardak Z, Dan T, Timmerman R, Wang L, Chuang C, Szalkowski G, Liu L, Pollom E, Rahimy E, Soltys S, Chen M, Gu X Bioengineering 2024 May 11
    ART2Dose: A comprehensive dose verification platform for online adaptive radiotherapy
    Lin J, Chen M, Lai Y, Trivedi Z, Wu J, Foo T, Gonzalez Y, Reynolds Jr. RR, Park C, Yan Y, Godley A, Jiang S, Jia X, Lin MH, Pompos A, Lu W Medical physics 2024 Jan 51 18-30
    Leveraging global binary masks for structure segmentation in medical images
    Kazemimoghadam M, Yang Z, Chen M, Ma L, Lu W, Gu X Physics in medicine and biology 2023 Sep 68
    Framework for Quality Assurance of Ultrahigh Dose Rate Clinical Trials Investigating FLASH Effects and Current Technology Gaps
    Zou W, Zhang R, Schüler E, Taylor PA, Mascia AE, Diffenderfer ES, Zhao T, Ayan AS, Sharma M, Yu SJ, Lu W, Bosch WR, Tsien C, Surucu M, Pollard-Larkin JM, Schuemann J, Moros EG, Bazalova-Carter M, Gladstone DJ, Li H, Simone CB, Petersson K, Kry SF, Maity A, Loo BW, Dong L, Maxim PG, Xiao Y, Buchsbaum JC International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2023 Aug 116 1202-1217
    A deep learning approach for automatic delineation of clinical target volume in stereotactic partial breast irradiation (S-PBI)
    Kazemimoghadam M, Yang Z, Chen M, Rahimi A, Kim N, Alluri P, Nwachukwu C, Lu W, Gu X Physics in medicine and biology 2023 May 68
    Evaluation of fan-beam kilovoltage computed tomography image quality on a novel biological-guided radiotherapy platform
    Zhuang T, Gibbard G, Duan X, Tan J, Park Y, Lin MH, Sun Z, Oderinde OM, Lu W, Reynolds Jr. RR, Godley A, Pompos A, Dan T, Garant A, Iyengar P, Timmerman R, Jiang S, Cai B Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology 2023 Apr 26
    Recurrence-Free Survival Prediction Under the Guidance of Automatic Gross Tumor Volume Segmentation for Head and Neck Cancers
    Wang K, Li Y, Dohopolski M, Peng T, Lu W, Zhang Y, Wang J 2023 144-153
  • Honors & Awards
    • AAPM/RSNA Doctoral and Masters Graduate Fellowship
      Mentor (2024)
    • ASTRO Junior Investigator Basic Translational Award
      Mentor (2024)
    • Elected AAPM Fellow
      (2024)
    • AAPM Seed Grant
      Mentor (2023)
    • AAPM, Best in Physics
      Senior author (2023)
    • Third place in HECKTOR grand challenge
      (2022)
    • ASTRO, Best in Physics
      Senior author (2021)
    • AAPM, Best in Physics
      Senior author (2019)
    • AAPM, Best in Physics
      Senior author (2017)
    • ICCR, Young Investigator Competition finalist
      (2000)
    • AAPM, Young Investigator Competition finalist
      (1999)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • American Association of Physicists in Medicine
    • American Society for Radiation Oncology
    • IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society