Selected Papers

R Khan, A Darafsheh, M Goharian, S Cilla, E Villarreal-Barajas, (2020) “Evolution of clinical radiotherapy physics practice under COVID-19 constraints”, Radiother Oncol 148, 274-78

K Van Delinder, R Khan, J Gräfe (2020) “Neutron activation of gadolinium for ion therapy: A Monte Carlo study of charged particle beams” Scientific Reports, 10, 13417, | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70429-9

S Momin, J L Gräfe, K Georgiou, R Khan, (2019) “Simultaneous optimization of mixed photon energy beams in volumetric modulated arc therapy”, Med Phys 46 (9) 3844-3863

A Darafsheh, D Mulrow, E León-Marroquín, and R Khan, (2019) “Spectroscopic characterization of radiochromic films for radiation therapy dosimetry”, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 10870, 108700F

P Kandlakunta, S Momin, A Sloop, T Zhang, R Khan, (2019) “Characterizing a Geant4 Monte Carlo model of a multileaf collimator for a TrueBeamTM linear accelerator”, European J of Med Phys; 59(3): 1-12

S Momin, J Grafe, R Khan (2019) “Evaluation of mixed energy partial arcs for volumetric modulated arc therapy for prostate cancer”, J Appl Clin Med Phys 1-15

Y Leon-Marroquin, D Mulrow, R Khan, A Darafsheh, (2019) “Spectral analysis of the EBT3 radiochromic films response for clinical photon and electron beams”, Med Phys 46(2): 973-982 – Joint Senior Authorship

P Kandlakunta, A Thomas, Y Tang, R Khan, T Zhang, (2019) “Design and Numerical Simulations of W-Diamond Transmission Target for Distributed X-ray Sources” Biomedical Phys and Engineering Express, 5: 025030

R Fang, T Mazur, S Mutic, R Khan, (2018) “The impact of mass density variations on an electron Monte Carlo algorithm for radiotherapy dose calculations” Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol 8:1-7.

K Martell, Y Poirier, T Zhang, A Hudson, D Spencer, F Jacso, R Hayashi, R Benerjee, R Khan, N Wolfe, Jon-Paul Voroney (2018) “Radiation therapy for deep periocular cancer treatments when protons are unavailable: Is combining electrons and orthovoltage therapy beneficial?” Journal of Radiation Research 45: 1-11

S Weppler, S Momin, J E Villarreal-Barajas, R Khan (2018) “Comprehensive fluence delivery optimization with multileaf collimation” Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express 4(2) 025021

R Zavan, J Madamesila, P McGeachy, J E Villarreal-Barajas, R Khan (2018) “Experimental Verification of Transport based Dose Computation using Low Density Phantoms for Clinical Photon Beams”, J Appl Clin Med Phys 19(3): 32-43

P Kandlakunta, R Pham, R Khan, T Zhang, (2017) “Development of multi-pixel x-ray source using oxide coated cathodes” Phys Med Biol 62(13):N320-N336. Epub 2017 Feb 1

Recent Abstracts

R Khan, T Mazur , S Mutic (2019) “Evidence-Based Graduate Program Design with Data Analytics” 61th Annual Scientific meeting of AAPM July 14-18, San Antonio, TX (ePoster) PO-GePV-E-1

Y Leon*, D Mulrow , R Khan, A Darafsheh (2019) “Comparison of the Absorption Spectra of the EBT-XD and EBT3 Films Irradiated with Clinical Radiotherapy Beams”  61th Annual Scientific meeting of AAPM July 14-18, San Antonio, TX (ePoster) PO-GePV-T-203

A Darafsheh, D Mulrow, Y Leon, T Zhao, S Mossahebi, A Kassaee, R Khan (2019) “Systematic Evaluation of the Spectral Response of EBT3 Radiochromic Films to Proton Therapy Beams” 61th Annual Scientific meeting of AAPM July 14-18, San Antonio, TX (ePoster) TU-C1000-GePD-F7-6

A Darafsheh, D Mulrow, B Maraghechi, F Reynoso, R Khan (2019) “Effect of Magnetic Field On the Spectral Response of EBT3 Radiochromic Films in MRIgRT” 61th Annual Scientific meeting of AAPM July 14-18, San Antonio, TX (ePoster) WE-C1000-GePD-F4-5

S Momin, J Grafe , T Zhang , R Khan (2019) “Improving IMRT Delivery with a Neighborhood-Coordinated Leaf Motion Algorithm” 61th Annual Scientific meeting of AAPM July 14-18, San Antonio, TX  (ePoster) MO-C930-GePD-F7-5

S Momin, J Grafe, R Khan (2019) “Simultaneous Optimization of Dual Energy for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy” 61th Annual Scientific meeting of AAPM July 14-18, San Antonio, TX (SNAP-Oral) SU-K-302-5

D Mulrow, Y Leon, A Darafsheh, R Khan (2019) “Time Evolution of the Response of Irradiated EBT-XD Radiochromic Films” 61th Annual Scientific meeting of AAPM July 14-18, San Antonio, TX  (ePoster)TU-C930-GePD-F4-3

S Lenka*, J Cammin , R Khan, A Sethi , S Goddu (2019) “Simultaneous Cardiac and Pulmonary Motion Phantom With EKG Generation” 61th Annual Scientific meeting of AAPM July 14-18, San Antonio, TX (Oral) TH-BC-301-11

Y Leon, D Mulrow, R Khan, A Darafsheh, (2019) “Spectroscopic characterization of radiochromic films for radiation therapy dosimetry” Photonics West: Design and Quality for Biomedical Technologies XII, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2-7, 2019, SPIE 2019 (Oral)

KW Van Delinder, D Crawford, R Khan, J Gräfe (2019) “Characteristic spectrum measured from a gadolinium contrast agent (GDCA) in proton therapy: A combined experimental-Geant4” study 58th annual conference on particle therapy co-operative group (PTCOG) June 10-15, Manchester, UK (ePoster)

KW Van Delinder, D Crawford, R Khan, J Gräfe (2019) “Slow neutron detection with a cadmium-telluride (CdTe) detector for proton therapy” 58th annual conference on particle therapy co-operative group (PTCOG) June 10-15, Manchester, UK (ePoster)