ARUN GOPAL, Ph.D. Research Physicist (Independent Consulting) Consulting with: Radiation Oncology, New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia University) DATE:
07/10/2014
CONTACT INFORMATION Address: 540 W 163rd St, #7A, New York, NY, 10032 Telephone: 901-413-3741 Email: arungopal77@gmail.com EDUCATION 1995 – 1999 1999 – 2004 2005 – 2009
B.E. University of Mumbai, Biomedical Engineering M.S. University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. University of Florida, Nuclear & Radiological Engineering (CAMPEP accredited medical physics graduate program)
POST GRADUATE EDUCATION AND TRAINING 2009 – 2010 University of Florida, Postdoctoral research (Image guided radiotherapy) 2010 – 2012 University of Florida, Clinical radiation oncology medical physics residency CERTIFICATIONS 2014 Therapeutic Medical Physics, American Board of Radiology EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Academic Appointments 2012 – 2014 Medical Physicist, Department of Radiation Oncology, New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University 2014 – present Research Physicist, Collaboration/Consulting with: Department of Radiation Oncology, New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Other Employment 1999 – 2004 Research Assistant, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee Health Science Center 2005 – 2009 Research Assistant, Department of Nuclear & Radiological Engineering, University of Florida PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS 2009 – present American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) HONORS & AWARDS
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Lawrence T. Fitzgerald Award, Best Research Paper, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), FL chapter Anthony Stell Memorial Award, Outstanding Medical Physics Research, Dept. of Nuclear & Radiological Engineering, University of Florida James R. Cameron Young Investigator Finalist, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), 51st Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA
CLINICAL ACITIVITIES 2010 – 2012 Linac calibration & quality assurance (supervised training) Brachytherapy source handling & calibration, HDR QA/planning Patient plan quality assurance, in-vivo diode dosimetry checks Treatment planning for conventional, IMRT, SBRT planning Physics support for special procedures (TBI, TSET, SBRT) 2012 – 2014
Linac calibration & quality assurance Daily clinical on-call coverage, patient plan checks & quality assurance Physics support for conventional, IMRT, SBRT treatment planning Physics support for machine installation, acceptance, and commissioning
2014 – present Clinical research on EPID based patient pre & in treatment dosimetry PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed Journal Articles 1. Samant SS#, Gopal A*, Sobczak D, A high quantum efficiency prototype video based portal imaging system, J X-ray Sc Tech 14, 161-175, 2006. 2. Samant SS#, Gopal A*, Study of a prototype high quantum efficiency thick scintillation crystal video-electronic portal imaging device, Med Phys 33, 2783-2791, 2006. 3. Samant SS#, Gopal A*, Analysis of the kinestatic charge detection system as a high detective quantum efficiency electronic portal imaging device, Med Phys 33, 3557-3567, 2006. 4. Samant SS#, Gopal A*, Wu J, Jain J, Xia J, DiBianca FA, Design of a prototype tri-electrode ion-chamber for megavoltage X-ray imaging, Nucl Instr And Meth A 573, 398-409, 2007. 5. Gopal A, Samant SS, Effect of recombination in a high quantum efficiency prototype ionization-chamber-based electronic portal imaging device, Med Phys 34, 3224-3232, 2007. 6. Gopal A, Samant SS, Validity of the line-pair bar-pattern method in the measurement of the modulation transfer function (MTF) in megavoltage imaging, Med Phys 35, 270-279, 2008.
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Gopal A, Samant SS, Use of a line-pair resolution phantom for comprehensive quality assurance of electronic portal imaging devices based on fundamental imaging metrics, Med Phys 36, 2006-2015, 2009. Mittauer K, Lu B, Yan G, Kahler D, Gopal A, Amdur R, Liu C, A study of IMRT planning parameters on planning efficiency, delivery efficiency, and plan quality, Med Phys 40, 061704, 2013.
Abstracts and Proceedings 1. Gopal A, Samant SS, DiBianca FA, Bar-pattern technique for modulation transfer function measurement in portal imaging, SPIE Med. Img., San Diego, CA, 2003. 2. Gopal A, Samant SS, Evaluation of clinical portal image quality based on detective quantum efficiency (DQE) measurements using a fast measurement of modulation transfer function (MTF), AAPM 46, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004. 3. Samant SS, Gopal A, Development and analysis of a high quantum efficiency thick scintillator based prototype megavoltage imaging system, AAPM 47, Seattle, WA, 2005. 4. Gopal A, Samant SS, A fast method for measurement of modulation transfer function (MTF) and detective quantum efficiency (DQE) in presence of phantom scatter in image guided radiotherapy, AAPM 49, Minneapolis, MN, 2007. 5. Gopal A, Samant SS, A formulism towards clinically relevant radiographic imaging metrics in the presence of patient build-up, scatter and attenuation: cMTF, cNPS, and cDQE, AAPM 50, Houston, TX, 2008. 6. Gopal A, Samant SS, Theoretical analysis of fiber-optic scintillation glass arrays for high quantum efficiency megavoltage imaging and image guided radiotherapy, AAPM 51, Anaheim, CA, 2009. 7. Gopal A, Samant SS, Evaluation of a Small-Field Prototype Imager Based On a Fiber Optic Scintillation Glass Array (FOSGA): An Emerging Technology for Low Dose Megavoltage Cone-Beam CT, AAPM 52, Philadelphia, PA, 2010. 8. Samant SS, Baciak JE, Gopal A, Prototype high detective quantum efficiency imaging panel based on a fiber-optic scintillation glass array (FOSGA) for megavoltage imaging, SPIE Optics & Photonics Symposium, San Diego, CA, 2011. 9. Gopal A, Samant SS, A Prototype Fiber-Optic Scintillation Glass Array for Megavoltage Cone-Beam CT, AAPM 53, Vancouver, BC, 2011. 10. Gopal A, S Lee, Mittauer K, Kahler D, Lu B, Samant SS, Quantitative Assessment of 4D Cone-Beam CT Based Image Guidance for Patient Positioning in Precision Radiotherapy, AAPM 54, Charlotte, NC, 2012.
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Mittauer K, Lu B, Liu C, Yan G, Gopal A, Comprehensive Study of Head and Neck IMRT Parameters On Planning and Delivery Efficiency, Plan Quality, and Dose Accuracy, AAPM 54, Charlotte, NC, 2012 Samant SS, S Lee, Gopal A, Evaluation of Cone-Beam CT Imaging Quality Using a Clinical Detective Quantum Efficiency Measure (cDQE), AAPM 55, Indianapolis, IN, 2013. Chen Y, Shih R, Afghan M, Gopal A, Chen H, Determination of Field Parameters for Unflattened Photon Beams Using a Universal Scaling Factor, AAPM 55, Indianapolis, IN, 2013. Chen Y, Shih R, Afghan M, Gopal A, Chen H, Comparison of Head Scatters in FlatteningFilter-Free and Flattened Photon Beams, AAPM 55, Indianapolis, IN, 2013.
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