
Thomas Banks, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department Radiation Oncology
Graduate Programs Biomedical Engineering
Biography
- DABR, Therapeutic Medical Physics (2019)
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Nuclear Physics (2007)
- M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Physics (2001)
- A.B., Cornell University, Physics (1999)
Research Interest
- Applying new technologies to improve clinical operations, and working in partnership with physicians to develop novel techniques
Publications
Featured Publications
- Pilot study of combined FDG-PET and dynamic contrast-enhanced CT of locally advanced cervical carcinoma before and during concurrent chemoradiotherapy suggests association between changes in tumor blood volume and treatment response.
- Banks TI, von Eyben R, Hristov D, Kidd EA Cancer Med 2018 Aug 7 8 3642-3651
- First Results from CUORE: A Search for Lepton Number Violation via 0??? Decay of Te-130
- C. Alduino et al. PRL 2018 120 132501
- A compact ultra-clean system for deploying radioactive sources inside the KamLAND detector
- Banks, T.I. et al. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. 2015 A769 88?96
- Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of Te-130 with CUORE-0
- Alfonso, K., et al. PRL 2015 115 102502
- Limit on Neutrinoless ?? Decay of Xe-136 from the First Phase of KamLAND-Zen and Comparison with the Positive Claim in Ge-76
- Gando, A. et al. PRL 2013 110 062502
- Measurement of the Muon Capture Rate in Hydrogen Gas and Determination of the Proton?s Pseudoscalar Coupling g_P
- V. A. Andreev et al. PRL 2007 99 032002
Honors & Awards
- APS Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics
(2009)
Professional Associations/Affiliations
- AAPM (2016)
- AAPM, Southwest Chapter (2020)