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. He obtained his doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering from Southeast University in China in 1997. He completed his residency training in Medical Physics in 2001 at Stanford University School of Medicine. As a medical physicist and an assistant professor, he became one of faculty members of Department or Radiation Oncology. He is currently an associate professor, the director of accredited medical dosimetry program and the director of Medical Informatics section of Division of Radiation Physics & Informatics.

Research Interests:

Clinical Duties:

• Periodical quality assurance (QA) for LINACs, Tomotherapy unit, CT, simulator and GammaKnife;
• Patient-specific IMRT QA;
• Weekly chart checking;
• LDR/HDR brachytherapy procedures including GYN cesium implant, MammoSite and prostate seed implant;
• GammaKnife stereotactic radiosurgery treatment;
• Supervision of medical dosimetrists;
• Some treatment planning;
• Medical physics consultation and troubleshooting.

Teaching:

• Medical Dosimetry Program
• Medical Physics Residency program.
• Clinical training for junior medical physicists.

Society memberships:

        Full member of AAPM, Full member of IEEE

Developed Clinical Applications:

• ePin. A free small application for film dosimetry.
• PortalSim. A dynamic treatment simulation system for IMRT and IGRT (Patented).
• PortView. A dedicated image reviewing system for radiation therapy clinics.
• iPump. The Image Pumping Utility for BrainLAB ExacTrac and R&V system (patent pending).
• ScreenBee. A DICOM screen dumper that links Tomotherapy and R&V System in Radiation Therapy Clinics (copyrighted).
• DICOMan. The Universal DICOM Wizard for Radiation Oncology and  Radiology (copyrighted).

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.