Weihua Mao, PhD

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences

Research Interests

Adaptive Radiation Therapy, Medical Imaging & Motion Management.

Selected Publications

• Weihua Mao, Louis Lee, and Lei Xing.  Development of a QA phantom and automated analysis tool for geometric quality assurance of on-board MV and kV x-ray imaging systems. Medical Physics35(4): 1497-1506 (2008). PMID:18491545, PMCID:PMC2811556. DOI:10.1118/1.2885719

• Weihua Mao, Nadeem Riaz, Rodney Wiersma, and Lei Xing.  A fiducial detection algorithm for real-time image guided IMRT based on simultaneous kV and MV imaging.  Medical Physics 35(8): 3554-3564 (2008). PMID:18777916,PMCID: PMC2809708. DOI:10.1118/1.2953563

• Yin Yang, Zichun Zhong, Xiaohu Guo, Jing Wang, John Anderson, Timothy Solberg, and Weihua Mao. A novel markerless technique to evaluate daily lung tumor motion based on conventional cone-beam CT projection data, International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 82(5): e749-e756 (2012).PMID:22330989, DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.11.035

• Yiqi Cai, Zichun Zhong, Xiaohu Guo, Weihua Mao. Dynamic Meshing for Deformable Image Registration,  Computer-Aided Design (CAD) 58:141-150 ( 2015). DOI:10.1016/j.cad.2014.08.009

• Zichun Zhong, Xiaohu Guo, Wenping Wang, Bruno Levy, Feng Sun, Yang Liu, and Weihua Mao. Particle-based anisotropic surface meshing, ACM Transactions on Graphics 32(4) Article#99 (2013).DOI:10.1145/2461912.2461946

Honors

State National Science Award, State Council of the People's Republic of China, 1/20/04

Memberships

• American Association of Physicists in Medicine
• American Society for Radiation Oncology