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Bin Cai, Ph.D.

Bin Cai, Ph.D.

Director of Advanced Physics Service

Associate Professor

School
Medical School
Department
Radiation Oncology
  • Biography

    Bin Cai, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Director of Advanced Physics Service in UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Department of Radiation Oncology’s Division of Medical Physics & Engineering.

    Dr. Cai received his Ph.D. from Ohio University and completed his medical physics residency training at Washington University’s School of Medicine. Prior to joining UT Southwestern, Dr. Cai was an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at Washington University. He is certified in therapeutic radiological physics by the American Board of Radiology.

    Dr. Cai has extensive clinical and research experience in radiation therapeutic physics, imaging processing, and computational programming. Specifically, Dr. Cai has been continuously working on clinical implementation, development, and improvement of advanced radiation therapy treatment technologies and procedures, including both MR and CT online adaptive radiotherapy, biology-guided radiotherapy, AI-assisted radiotherapy process, automated quality assurance, as well as risk analysis/process improvement for radiotherapy workflow.

  • Education
    Graduate School
    Ohio University (2011), Arts and Science
  • Research Interest
    • Adaptive radiotherapy
    • Automation and artificial intelligence in modern radiation therapy
    • Biology-guided radiotherapy
    • MR-guided radiotherapy
  • Publications
    Adapt-On-Demand: A Novel Strategy for Personalized Adaptive Radiation Therapy for Locally Advanced Lung Cancer
    Li R, Zhuang T, Montalvo S, Wang K, Parsons D, Zhang Y, Iyengar P, Wang J, Godley A, Cai B, Lin MH, Westover K Practical Radiation Oncology 2024 Sep 14 e395-e406
    Beyond conventional bounds: Surpassing system limits for stereotactic ablative (SAbR) lung radiotherapy using CBCT-based adaptive planning system
    Gonzalez Y, Visak J, Overman L, Liao CY, Yen A, Zhuang T, Cai B, Godley A, Zhang Y, Timmerman R, Iyengar P, Westover K, Parsons D, Lin MH Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2024 Aug 25
    Progressive auto-segmentation for cone-beam computed tomography-based online adaptive radiotherapy
    Zhao H, Liang X, Meng B, Dohopolski M, Choi B, Cai B, Lin MH, Bai T, Nguyen D, Jiang S Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology 2024 Jul 31
    Inter-fractional portability of deep learning models for lung target tracking on cine imaging acquired in MRI-guided radiotherapy
    Peng J, Stowe HB, Samson PP, Robinson CG, Yang C, Hu W, Zhang Z, Kim T, Hugo GD, Mazur TR, Cai B Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine 2024 Jun 47 769-777
    NRG Oncology Assessment of Artificial Intelligence Deep Learning–Based Auto-segmentation for Radiation Therapy: Current Developments, Clinical Considerations, and Future Directions
    Rong Y, Chen Q, Fu Y, Yang X, Al-Hallaq HA, Wu QJ, Yuan L, Xiao Y, Cai B, Latifi K, Benedict SH, Buchsbaum JC, Qi XS International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2024 May 119 261-280
    BIOGUIDE-X: A First-in-Human Study of the Performance of Positron Emission Tomography-Guided Radiation Therapy
    Vitzthum LK, Surucu M, Gensheimer MF, Kovalchuk N, Han B, Pham D, Chang D, Shirvani SM, Aksoy D, Maniyedath A, Narayanan M, Da Silva AJ, Mazin S, Feghali KA, Iyengar P, Dan T, Pompos A, Timmerman R, Öz O, Cai B, Garant A International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2024 Apr 118 1172-1180
    Adaptive Radiotherapy: Next-Generation Radiotherapy
    Dona Lemus OM, Cao M, Cai B, Cummings M, Zheng D Cancers 2024 Mar 16
    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
    Preliminary Evaluation of PTV Margins for Online Adaptive Radiation Therapy of the Prostatic Fossa
    Morgan HE, Wang K, Yan Y, Desai N, Hannan R, Chambers E, Cai B, Lin MH, Sher DJ, Wang J, Wang AZ, Jiang S, Timmerman R, Park C“, Garant A Practical Radiation Oncology 2023 Jul 13 e345-e353
    Phantom-based Quality Assurance of a Clinical Dose Accumulation Technique Used in an Online Adaptive Radiation Therapy Platform
    Maraghechi B, Mazur T, Lam D, Price A, Henke L, Kim H, Hugo GD, Cai B Advances in Radiation Oncology 2023 May 8
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (2012)
    • American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) (2016)
    • Radiation Research Society (RRS) (2016)