David Parsons, Ph.D.

Download Curriculum Vitae

David Parsons, Ph.D., received his Ph.D. from Dalhousie University in 2017 under the supervision of James Robar, Ph.D. He then completed his clinical training at UT Southwestern Medical Center's Medical Physics Residency Program. Upon completion of residency he accepted a faculty position at UT Southwestern Medical Center. His research interests include image guidance in radiotherapy, motion management, novel treatment techniques and the use of Monte Carlo simulation in radiotherapy.

• Image guided radiation therapy
• Monte Carlo Simulation
• Motion management in radiation therapy
• Novel treatment techniques in radiation therapy
• Surface guided radiation therapy

Simulation and pre-planning omitted radiotherapy (SPORT): a feasibility study for prostate cancer

Zhuang T, Parsons D, Desai N, Gibbard G, Keilty D, Lin MH, Cai B, Nguyen D, Chiu T, Godley A, Pompos A, Jiang S Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express 2024 Mar 10

Considerations for intensity modulated total body or total marrow and lymphoid irradiation

Parsons D, Lim TY, Teruel JR, Galavis P, Agostinelli S, Liang J, Mancosu P, Cherpak A, Stanley DN, Ahn KH, Guo B, Gonzalez Y, Burmeister J, Wong JY, Gu X, Kim GG Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology 2023 Nov 43

Evaluating machine learning enhanced intelligent-optimization-engine (IOE) performance for ethos head-and-neck (HN) plan generation

Visak J, Inam E, Meng B, Wang S, Parsons D, Nyugen D, Zhang T, Moon D, Avkshtol V, Jiang S, Sher D, Lin MH Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2023 Jul 24

Stability and reproducibility comparisons between deep inspiration breath-hold techniques for left-sided breast cancer patients: A prospective study

Parsons D, Joo M, Iqbal Z, Godley A, Kim N, Spangler AE, Albuquerque K, Sawant A, Zhao B, Gu X, Rahimi A Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2023 May 24

Evaluation of plan quality and treatment efficiency in cranial stereotactic radiosurgery treatment plans with a variable source-to-axis distance

Church C, MacDonald RL, Parsons D, Syme A Medical physics 2023 May 50 3039-3054

Clinical experience on patient-specific quality assurance for CBCT-based online adaptive treatment plan

Shen C, Chen L, Zhong X, Gonzalez Y, Visak J, Meng B, Inam E, Parsons D, Godley A, Jiang S, Cai B, Lin MH Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2023 Apr 24

On the feasibility of improved target coverage without compromising organs at risk using online adaptive stereotactic partial breast irradiation (A-SPBI)

Montalvo SK, Kim N, Nwachukwu C, Alluri P, Parsons D, Lin MH, Cai B, Zhuang T, Hrycushko B, Chen L, Timmerman R, Rahimi A Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2023 Feb 24

Feasibility and efficacy of active breathing coordinator assisted deep inspiration breath hold technique for treatment of locally advanced breast cancer

All S, Zhao B, Montalvo S, Maxwell C, Johns C, Gu X, Rahimi A, Alluri P, Parsons D, Chiu T, Schroeder S, Kim DN Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2023 Feb 24

Machine characterization and central axis depth dose data of a superficial x-ray radiotherapy unit

Xiong Z, Zhong Y, Banks TI, Reynolds Jr. RR, Chiu T, Tan J, Zhang Y, Parsons D, Yan Y, Godley A, Stojadinovic S Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express 2023 Jan 9

Region-of-interest intra-arc MV imaging to facilitate sub-mm positional accuracy with minimal imaging dose during treatment deliveries of small cranial lesions

Church C, Parsons D, Syme A Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2022 Nov 23

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research Doctoral Research Award
  (2014-2017)

• American Association of Physicists in Medicine (2017)
• American Brachytherapy Society (2019)
• American Society for Radiation Oncology (2018)
• Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (2017)