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Taoran Cui, PhD

Division of Radiation Physics

Dr. Cui earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2013 and an M.S. in Medical Physics from Duke University in 2015. He then completed a residency in Medical Physics at Cleveland Clinic. He joined the medical physics faculty in 2018. Dr. Cui is certified in Therapeutic Radiological Physics by the American Board of Radiology. His research focuses on Gamma Knife and linear accelerator-based stereotactic radiosurgery, radiotherapy treatment planning, and clinical workflows automation using computer programming.

 

Publications
  1. Cui, T., Zhou, Y., Yue, N.J., Vergalasova, I., Zhang, Y., Zhu, J. and Nie, K. (2021), Optimization of treatment isocenter location in single-isocenter linac-based stereotactic radiosurgery for management of multiple brain metastases. Med. Phys.. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.15294
  2. Ginalis EE, Cui T, Weiner J, Nie K, Danish S. Two-staged stereotactic radiosurgery for the treatment of large brain metastases: Single institution experience and review of literature. J Radiosurg SBRT. 2020;7(2):105-114.
  3. Wang, H., Xu, Z., Grantham, K., Zhou, Y., Cui, T., Zhang, Y., … & Nie, K. (2021). Performance assessment of two motion management systems for frameless stereotactic radiosurgery. Strahlentherapie und Onkologie, 197(2), 150-157.
  4. Hu, L., Huang, Q., Cui, T., Duarte, I., Miller, G. W., Mugler III, J. P., … & Cai, J. (2019). A hybrid proton and hyperpolarized gas tagging MRI technique for lung respiratory motion imaging: a feasibility study. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 64(10), 105019.
  5. Cui, T, Ward, MC, Joshi, NP, et al. Correlation between plan quality improvements and reduced acute dysphagia and xerostomia in the definitive treatment of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma. Head & Neck. 2019; 41: 1096– 1103. https://doi.org/10.1002/hed.25594
  6. Cui, T., Miller, G. W., Mugler III, J. P., Cates Jr, G. D., Mata, J. F., de Lange, E. E., … & Cai, J. (2018). An initial investigation of hyperpolarized gas tagging magnetic resonance imaging in evaluating deformable image registration‐based lung ventilation. Medical physics, 45(12), 5535-5542.