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Yonggang Lu PhD

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Associate Professor

Institution: Medical College of Wisconsin
Department: Radiology
Division: Medical Physics
Program: General

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Research Areas of Interest

  • MRI Guided Thermal Therapy and Radiation Therapy
  • Monte Carlo Radiation Dose Simulation
  • Medical Imaging Processing and Analysis
  • Computational Modeling in Fluid Dynamics and Thermal Dynamics

    • Research Experience

  • Identify Ferromagnetic Component in Medical Implant by CT and X-rays
  • Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Imaging in Diffusion MRI
  • Tracer Kinetic Modeling in DCE-MRI
  • Monte Carlo Radiation Dose Simulation in Nuclear Medicine Imaging
  • Thermodynamic Modeling in Flames
  • MRI Guided Radiation Therapy
  • MRI Safety Simulation
  • Multiphase Fluid Velocity and Flow Rate Measurement and Testing
  • Fiber Tracking Algorithm in Diffusion Tensor MRI

    • Clinical Expertise

  • MRI Safety Expert
  • Radiation Safety Officer
  • Medical Physics (X-ray, Fluoroscopy, CT, Ultrasound and Mammography) Service

    • Methodologies and Techniques

  • Algorithms
  • Computer Simulation
  • Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Multimodal Imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Computational Modeling and Experimental Testing

    • Publications (31)

  • Monte Carlo simulation of radiation dose to infant patients from urine-contaminated diapers during diuretic renal scintigraphy. (Lu Y, Kumbhar S, Liu Y, Vo NJ, Bessette Baker M, Qi J) Nucl Med Commun 2025 Aug 01;46(8):700-710 PMID: 40464143 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105007453431 06/04/2025    
  • Assessment of infant gonadal dose irradiated from urine-contaminated diapers during diuretic renal scintigraphy. (Lu Y, Kumbhar S, Liu Y, Vo NJ, Lu J, Baker M, Qi J) Nucl Med Commun 2024 Jan 01;45(1):45-50 PMID: 37901921 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85179806918 10/30/2023    
  • Editorial: MR-guided focused ultrasound treatment techniques in cancers: from physics to clinics. (Lu Y, Zhang Z, Liu S) Front Oncol 2023;13:1233833 PMID: 37534239 PMCID: PMC10393028 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85166400922 08/03/2023       2 Citations
  • On the correction of respiratory motion-induced image reconstruction errors in positron-emission tomography-guided radiation therapy (Zhong H, Ren L, Lu Y, Liu Y) Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology April 2023;26 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85150252283 04/01/2023       3 Citations
  • On the correction of respiratory motion-induced image reconstruction errors in positron-emission tomography-guided radiation therapy. (Zhong H, Ren L, Lu Y, Liu Y) Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol 2023 Apr;26:100430 PMID: 36970447 PMCID: PMC10036920 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85150252283 03/28/2023       3 Citations
  • Editorial: MR-guided focused ultrasound treatment techniques in cancers: from physics to clinics (Lu Y, Zhang Z, Liu S) Frontiers in Oncology 2023;13 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85166400922 01/01/2023       2 Citations
  • Validation of a deterministic linear Boltzmann transport equation solver for rapid CT dose computation using physical dose measurements in pediatric phantoms. (Principi S, Lu Y, Liu Y, Wang A, Maslowski A, Wareing T, Van Heteren J, Schmidt TG) Med Phys 2021 Dec;48(12):8075-8088 PMID: 34669975 PMCID: PMC8919397 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85118201381 10/21/2021       3 Citations
  • Feasibility study of direct helical acquisition method for CTDIvol measurement in dual energy CT (Yonggang Lu, Bret Barnes, Yu Liu) AAPM clinical meeting 03/20/2021    
  • Computational Modeling of Interstitial Fluid Pressure and Velocity in Head and Neck Cancer Based on Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Feasibility Analysis. (LoCastro E, Paudyal R, Mazaheri Y, Hatzoglou V, Oh JH, Lu Y, Konar AS, Vom Eigen K, Ho A, Ewing JR, Lee N, Deasy JO, Shukla-Dave A) Tomography 2020 Jun;6(2):129-138 PMID: 32548289 PMCID: PMC7289251 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85086686935 06/18/2020       22 Citations
  • Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI model selection for predicting tumor aggressiveness in papillary thyroid cancers. (Paudyal R, Lu Y, Hatzoglou V, Moreira A, Stambuk HE, Oh JH, Cunanan KM, Aramburu Nunez D, Mazaheri Y, Gonen M, Ho A, Fagin JA, Wong RJ, Shaha A, Tuttle RM, Shukla-Dave A) NMR Biomed 2020 Jan;33(1):e4166 PMID: 31680360 PMCID: PMC7687051 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85074747271 11/05/2019       19 Citations
  • Evaluation of Surface-Based DIR Accuracy Using Digital Phantom Simulations and a Customized Physical Phantom for MR-Guided RT Plan Adaptation (Allen Thomas, Yonggang Lu, Parag Parikh, and Deshan Yang ) AAPM Annual Meeting 07/29/2019    
  • Quantitative Non-Gaussian Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Metrics and Surgical Pathology for Stratifying Tumor Aggressiveness in Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas. (Núñez DA, Lu Y, Paudyal R, Hatzoglou V, Moreira AL, Oh JH, Stambuk HE, Mazaheri Y, Gonen M, Ghossein RA, Shaha AR, Tuttle RM, Shukla-Dave A) Tomography 2019 Mar;5(1):26-35 PMID: 30854439 PMCID: PMC6403039 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85071418544 03/12/2019       6 Citations
  • A novel MRI segmentation method using CNN-based correction network for MRI-guided adaptive radiotherapy. (Fu Y, Mazur TR, Wu X, Liu S, Chang X, Lu Y, Li HH, Kim H, Roach MC, Henke L, Yang D) Med Phys 2018 Nov;45(11):5129-5137 PMID: 30269345 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85055562502 10/01/2018       146 Citations
  • Abdominal, multi-organ, auto-contouring method for online adaptive magnetic resonance guided radiotherapy: An intelligent, multi-level fusion approach. (Liang F, Qian P, Su KH, Baydoun A, Leisser A, Van Hedent S, Kuo JW, Zhao K, Parikh P, Lu Y, Traughber BJ, Muzic RF Jr) Artif Intell Med 2018 Aug;90:34-41 PMID: 30054121 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85050286116 07/29/2018       57 Citations
  • Shape context based deformable surface registration for the gastrointestinal tracts (Yonggang Lu, Parag J. Parikh, Lauren E. Henke, Ishita Chen, Austen Curcuru, and Rojano Kashani) AAPM Annual Meeting 07/30/2017    
  • Intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion-weighted MRI during chemoradiation therapy to characterize and monitor treatment response in human papillomavirus head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. (Paudyal R, Oh JH, Riaz N, Venigalla P, Li J, Hatzoglou V, Leeman J, Nunez DA, Lu Y, Deasy JO, Lee N, Shukla-Dave A) J Magn Reson Imaging 2017 Apr;45(4):1013-1023 PMID: 27862553 PMCID: PMC5363344 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85006166316 11/20/2016       56 Citations
  • Bowel Auto-segmentation in Online Adaptive MRI-guided Radiation Therapy by Using a Multi-region Labeling Algorithm (Yonggang Lu, Rojano Kashani, Ishita Chen, Hanlin Wan, Nichole M. Maughan, David Muccigrosso, and Parag J. Parikh) AAPM Annual Meeting 07/30/2016    
  • Texture analysis on parametric maps derived from dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in head and neck cancer. (Jansen JF, Lu Y, Gupta G, Lee NY, Stambuk HE, Mazaheri Y, Deasy JO, Shukla-Dave A) World J Radiol 2016 Jan 28;8(1):90-7 PMID: 26834947 PMCID: PMC4731352 02/03/2016    
  • Evaluation of Head and Neck Tumors with Functional MR Imaging. (Jansen JFA, Parra C, Lu Y, Shukla-Dave A) Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am 2016 Feb;24(1):123-133 PMID: 26613878 PMCID: PMC4663682 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84955107336 11/29/2015       53 Citations
  • Multi-institutional validation of a novel textural analysis tool for preoperative stratification of suspected thyroid tumors on diffusion-weighted MRI. (Brown AM, Nagala S, McLean MA, Lu Y, Scoffings D, Apte A, Gonen M, Stambuk HE, Shaha AR, Tuttle RM, Deasy JO, Priest AN, Jani P, Shukla-Dave A, Griffiths J) Magn Reson Med 2016 Apr;75(4):1708-16 PMID: 25995019 PMCID: PMC4654719 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84930014016 05/23/2015       47 Citations
  • Using diffusion-weighted MRI to predict aggressive histological features in papillary thyroid carcinoma: a novel tool for pre-operative risk stratification in thyroid cancer. (Lu Y, Moreira AL, Hatzoglou V, Stambuk HE, Gonen M, Mazaheri Y, Deasy JO, Shaha AR, Tuttle RM, Shukla-Dave A) Thyroid 2015 Jun;25(6):672-80 PMID: 25809949 PMCID: PMC4490628 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84930516224 03/27/2015       35 Citations
  • Repeatability Investigation of Reduced Field-of-View Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging on Thyroid Glands. (Lu Y, Hatzoglou V, Banerjee S, Stambuk HE, Gonen M, Shankaranarayanan A, Mazaheri Y, Deasy JO, Shaha AR, Tuttle RM, Shukla-Dave A) J Comput Assist Tomogr 2015;39(3):334-9 PMID: 25700226 PMCID: PMC4433417 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84930064077 02/24/2015       35 Citations
  • Clinical Applications of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (Lu Y, Mazaheri Y, Hricak H, Shukla-Dave A) Comprehensive Biomedical Physics July 25, 2014;3:347-357 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84943382470 07/25/2014    
  • Comparing primary tumors and metastatic nodes in head and neck cancer using intravoxel incoherent motion imaging: a preliminary experience. (Lu Y, Jansen JF, Stambuk HE, Gupta G, Lee N, Gonen M, Moreira A, Mazaheri Y, Patel SG, Deasy JO, Shah JP, Shukla-Dave A) J Comput Assist Tomogr 2013;37(3):346-52 PMID: 23674004 PMCID: PMC3655331 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84878853156 05/16/2013       45 Citations
  • Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the prostate: improved robustness with stretched exponential modeling. (Mazaheri Y, Afaq A, Rowe DB, Lu Y, Shukla-Dave A, Grover J) J Comput Assist Tomogr 2012;36(6):695-703 PMID: 23192207 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84870861795 11/30/2012       61 Citations
  • Motion correction of multi-b-value diffusion-weighted imaging in the liver. (Mazaheri Y, Do RK, Shukla-Dave A, Deasy JO, Lu Y, Akin O) Acad Radiol 2012 Dec;19(12):1573-80 PMID: 22963726 PMCID: PMC4786013 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84868301890 09/12/2012       33 Citations
  • Extension of the intravoxel incoherent motion model to non-gaussian diffusion in head and neck cancer. (Lu Y, Jansen JF, Mazaheri Y, Stambuk HE, Koutcher JA, Shukla-Dave A) J Magn Reson Imaging 2012 Nov;36(5):1088-96 PMID: 22826198 PMCID: PMC3482143 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84867818423 07/25/2012       85 Citations
  • Correlation of a priori DCE-MRI and (1)H-MRS data with molecular markers in neck nodal metastases: Initial analysis. (Jansen JF, Carlson DL, Lu Y, Stambuk HE, Moreira AL, Singh B, Patel SG, Kraus DH, Wong RJ, Shaha AR, Shah JP, Shukla-Dave A) Oral Oncol 2012 Aug;48(8):717-22 PMID: 22366441 PMCID: PMC3368067 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84864401211 03/01/2012       55 Citations
  • An image-processing toolset for diffusion tensor tractography. (Mishra A, Lu Y, Choe AS, Aldroubi A, Gore JC, Anderson AW, Ding Z) Magn Reson Imaging 2007 Apr;25(3):365-76 PMID: 17371726 PMCID: PMC2719760 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-33947145711 03/21/2007       9 Citations
  • Unified framework for anisotropic interpolation and smoothing of diffusion tensor images. (Mishra A, Lu Y, Meng J, Anderson AW, Ding Z) Neuroimage 2006 Jul 15;31(4):1525-35 PMID: 16624586 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-33746830883 04/21/2006       22 Citations
  • Improved fiber tractography with Bayesian tensor regularization. (Lu Y, Aldroubi A, Gore JC, Anderson AW, Ding Z) Neuroimage 2006 Jul 01;31(3):1061-74 PMID: 16563804 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-33744943259 03/28/2006       24 Citations
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