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Sicong Li, D.Sc. |
Associate Professor
Education:
D.Sc. - Engineering (Systems Science and Math); Washington University, St. Louis, MO; 1999
MS - Systems Science and Mathematics; Washington University, St. Louis, MO; 1997
MS - Electromechanical Engineering; Nanjing University; China; 1989
Certifications:
American Board of Radiology - Therapeutic Radiological Physics
Professional Memberships:
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
IEEE, Electronic Engineering
Clinical & Research Interests:
3-D Conformal Treatment Planning
Brachytherapy
Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Research Projects:
- The stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic body radiotherapy:
- Treatment positioning accuracy.
- Optimization of beam orientation, weighting, and conformation.
- Treatment delivery technologies.
- Normal tissue dose tolerance.
- The brachytherapy treatments:
- Radiobiological models of the biological equivalent doses.
- Accuracy in brachytherapy dose calculations with heterogeneity corrections.
- MRI guided planning and treatments.
- Applications in IORT.
- The intensity modulation radiotherapy and volumetric modulated arc therapy:
- Optimization algorithms for inverse planning.
- Small field dose calculation.
- Quality assurance of the treatment delivery.
- Treatment delivery efficiency and safety.
- Various special procedures of radiotherapy:
- Total body Irradiations.
- Total skin electron therapy.
- Intraoperative radiation therapy.
Publications:
- Venugopal Gunda, Joshua J. Souchek, Jaime Abrego, Surendra K. Shukla, Gennifer D Goode, Enza Vernucci, Aneesha Dasgupta, Nina Chaika, Ryan J King, Sicong Li, Shuo Wang, Fang Yu, Tadayoshi Bessho, Chi Lin and Pankaj K Singh, MUC1-mediated metabolic alterations regulate response to radiotherapy in pancreatic cancer, Clinical Cancer Research, Published Online First, doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-17-1151, 2017
- Zhang Q, Driewer J, Wang S, Li S, Zhu X, Zheng D, Cao Y, Zhang J, Jamshidi A, Cox BW, Knisely JPS, Potters L, Klein EE, Accuracy evaluation of a six-degree-of-freedom couch using cone beam CT and IsoCal phantom with an in-house algorithm, Med Phys. 44(8):3888-3898, 2017
- Macha, M. A. , Rachagani, S. , Qazi, A. K. , Jahan, R. , Gupta, S. , Patel, A. , Seshacharyulu, P. , Lin, C. , Li, S. , Wang, S. , Verma, V. , Kishida, S. , Kishida, M. , Nakamura, N. , Kibe, T. , Lydiatt, W. M. , Smith, R. B. , Ganti, A. K. , Jones, D. T. , Batra, S. K., Afatinib radiosensitizes head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cells by targeting cancer stem cells, Oncotarget. 8, 13, p. 20961-20973, 2017
- Chen, Y. G., Chen, M. Q., Guo, Y. Y., Li, S. C., Wu, J. X. & Xu, B. H., Apparent diffusion coefficient predicts pathology complete response of rectal cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, PLoS One. 11, 4, e0153944, 2016
- Zhou, S., Zhu, X., Zhang, M., Zheng, D., Lei, Y., Li, S., Bennion, N., Verma, V., Zhen, W. & Enke, C., Estimation of internal organ motion-induced variance in radiation dose in non-gated radiotherapy, Phys Med Biol., 61, 23, p. 8157-8179, 2016
- Bennion, N. R., Nowak, R. K., Lyden, E. R., Thompson, R. B., Li, S. & Lin, C., Fractionated stereotactic radiation therapy for vestibular schwannomas: Dosimetric factors predictive of hearing outcomes, Pract Radiat Oncol, Sep-Oct;6(5):e155-62, 2016
- Zhang, M., Zhang, Q., Gan, H., Li, S. & Zhou, S. M, Setup uncertainties in linear accelerator based stereotactic radiosurgery and a derivation of the corresponding setup margin for treatment planning, Physica Medica. 32, 2, p. 379-385, 2016
- Verma, V., Johnson, C. P., Bennion, N. R., Bhirud, A. R., Li, S., McComb, R. D. & Lin, C., Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor: long-term survival after chemoradiotherapy, Child's Nervous System, 31(8):1393-9, 2015
- Lin, C., Lin, J., Stavas, M., Li, S., Canady, K. J., Romberger, D. J. & Loberiza, F. R., Impact of body mass index on pulmonary complications in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma treated with hematopoietic stem cell transplant, Leukemia and Lymphoma. 56, 11, p. 3058-3064, 2015
- Zhu, X., Driewer, J., Li, S., Verma, V., Lei, Y., Zhang, M., Zhang, Q., Zheng, D., Cullip, T., Chang, S. X., Wang, A. Z., Zhou, S. & Enke, C. A., Technical Note: Fabricating Cerrobend grids with 3D printing for spatially modulated radiation therapy: A feasibility study, Medical Physics. 42, 11, p 6269-6273, 2015
- Zhang, Q., Zheng, D., Lei, Y., Morgan, B., Driewer, J., Zhang, M., Li, S., Zhou, S., Zhen, W., Thompson, R., Wahl, A., Lin, C. & Enke, C, A new variable for SRS plan quality evaluation based on normal tissue sparing: The effect of prescription isodose levels, Nov 1 2014 In : British Journal of Radiology. 87, 1043, 20140362, 2014
- Guang Han, Dong Liu, Hua Gan, Kyle A. Denniston, Sicong Li, Wenyong Tan, Desheng Hu, Weining Zhen, Zhaohua Wang, Evaluation of the Dosimetric Feasibility of Hippocampal Sparing Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy in Patients with Locally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, PloS ONE, 9:2, e90007, 2014
- Mutian Zhang, Sicong Li, Hua Deng, Sumin Zhou, Technical Note: The Uses of I’mRT MatriXX in Electron Beams, Int. J of Medical Physics, Clinical Engineering and Radiation Oncology, 2(1) Page 15-18, 2013
- Cheng B Saw, Shanglian Bao, Sicong Li, A review on the technical and dosimetric aspects of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), Journal of Radiation Oncology, 1(4) Page 317-322 2012