Yulong Yan, Ph.D., DABR

Associate Professor, Director of Medical Dosimetry Program

Phone: 501-526-6591

E-mail: YanYulong@uams.edu

Dr. Yan obtained his bachelor degree and master degree in electrical engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China in 1985 and 1988. In 1997, he obtained his doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering from Southeast University. He completed his residency training in Radiation Physics in 2001 at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is one of the key members for the development of the first LINAC-based stereotactic radiosurgery treatment planning system in China and, of the world’s first Rotary Gamma Unit for stereotactic radiosurgery. He is currently the director of Medical Informatics section of division of Radiation Physics & Informatics.

Research Interests:

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Teaching:

He is currently the director and instructor of medical dosimetry program, the co-director of Medical Physics Residency program. He is also the co-director and instructor of nation-wide Phillips IMRT training course in Arkansas.

Society memberships:

Full member of AAPM, Full member of IEEE

Publications:

J. Penagaricano, Y. Yan, C. Shi, M.E.Linskey and V. Ratanatharathorn,”Dosimetric comparison of Helical Tomotherapy and Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery for single brain metastasis”, Radiation Oncology, August 2006 pp:1-6.

Chengyu Shi, Nikos Papanikolaou, Yulong Yan, Xuejun Weng, Hongyu Jiang, Analysis of the source of uncertainty for EDR2-film based IMRT quality assurance, J. Applied Clinical medical Physicis, 7(2)1-8, 2006.

Yulong Yan, Nikos Papanikolaou, Xuejun Weng, Jose Penagaricano, Vaneerat Ratanatharathorn, “Fast radiographic film calibration procedure for helical tomotherapy intensity modulated radiation therapy dose verification”, Medial Physics, 32(6):1566-1570,2005

Xuejun Weng, Yulong Yan, Huazhong Shu, Jiawang Wang, Steve B. Jiang and Limin Luo, A Vectorized Monte Carlo Code for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning Dose Calculation, Phys. Med. Biol, 48:N1-N10, 2003

Y. Yan, Y. Song, A.L.Boyer, “An Investigation of a Video-Based Patient Repositioning Technique”, Int. J. Radiation Oncology Biol. Phys. 54(2):606-612, 2002

Yan Y, Papanikolaou N, Peñagarícano J, and Ratanatharathorn V, “Automated Patient Positioning Verification Using Orthogonal DRR and Portal Images”, Medical Physics, Vol.29 (6), June 2002, 1244.

H. Shu, Y. Yan, X. Bao, L. Luo, “Treatment Planning Optimization by Quasi-Newton and Simulated Annealing Methods for Gamma Unit Treatment System”, Phys. Med. Biol, 43(10):2769-2784, 1998.

H. Shu, Y. Yan, “Three Dimensional Optimization of Treatment Planning for Gamma Unit Treatment System”, Med. Phys. 25:2352-2357,1998.

Y. Yan, X. Bao, Y. Bai, L. Luo, H. Shu, Y. Fu, “Three-Dimensional Image and Stereotactic Radiosurgery”, IEEE EMB,16(4):47-52,1997.

Y. Yan, H. Shu, X. Bao, L. Luo, Y. Bai, “Clinical Treatment Planning Optimization by Powell's Method for Gamma-Knife Treatment System”, Int. J. Radiation Oncology Biol. Phys., 39(1):247-254,1997.