DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL PHYSICS

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MEDICAL SCHOOL

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Research Areas

• Radiation Dosimetry,  Radiation Protection

• Biomagnestism

• Bone Densitometry

• Diagnostic X-ray Imaging

• Magnetic Resonance    Imaging (MRI)

• Nuclear Medicine, PET, Molecular Imaging

• Optical Spectroscopy

• Radiation Therapy Physics

• Ultrasound Imaging

Robert Jeraj, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

7033 Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research

UW-Medical Physics and Human Oncology

Madison, WI 53706-1532

Telephone: 608/263-8619

Fax: 608/262-2413

E-mail:  rjeraj@wisc.edu

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OTHER DEPARTMENT AFFILIATIONS

• Medical Physics
• Human Oncology

EDUCATION

• B.Sc., Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

• Ph.D., Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Image guided therapy for cancer
• Molecular imaging
• Radiation therapy
• Optimization
• Monte Carlo modeling
• Dosimetry

AWARDS AND HONORS

MEMBERSHIPS

• American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

• European Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO)

• Australiasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM)

• American Nuclear Society (ANS)

• European Nuclear Society (ENS)

• Institute of Physics (IoP; Fellow)

PUBLICATIONS (most recent first)

• Jeraj R. Mackie TR. Balog J. Olivera G. Pearson D. Kapatoes J. Ruchala K. Reckwerdt P. Radiation characteristics of helical tomotherapy. Medical Physics. 31(2):396-404, 2004 Feb.

• Wu C. Jeraj R. Lu W. Mackie TR. Fast treatment plan modification with an over-relaxed Cimmino algorithm.  Medical Physics. 31(2):191-200, 2004 Feb.

• Jeraj R. Wu C. Mackie TR. Optimizer convergence and local minima errors and their clinical importance.  Physics in Medicine & Biology. 48(17):2809-27, 2003 Sep 7.

• Keall PJ. Chock LB. Jeraj R. Siebers JV. Mohan R. Image reconstruction and the effect on dose calculation for hip prostheses. Medical Dosimetry. 28(2):113-7, 2003 Summer.

• Keall PJ. Siebers JV. Jeraj R. Mohan R. Radiotherapy dose calculations in the presence of hip prostheses. Medical Dosimetry. 28(2):107-12, 2003 Summer.

• Wu C. Olivera GH. Jeraj R. Keller H. Mackie TR. Treatment plan modification using voxel-based weighting factors/dose prescription. [Evaluation Studies. Journal Article. Validation Studies] Physics in Medicine & Biology. 48(15):2479-91, 2003 Aug 7.

• Miao B. Jeraj R. Bao S. Mackie TR. Adaptive anisotropic diffusion filtering of Monte Carlo dose distributions. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 48(17):2767-81, 2003 Sep 7.

• Balog J. Mackie TR. Pearson D. Hui S. Paliwal B. Jeraj R. Benchmarking beam alignment for a clinical helical tomotherapy device.  Medical Physics. 30(6):1118-27, 2003 Jun.

• Wu C. Jeraj R. Mackie TR. The method of intercepts in parameter space for the analysis of local minima caused by dose-volume constraints.  Physics in Medicine & Biology. 48(11):N149-57, 2003 Jun 7.

• Mackie TR. Kapatoes J. Ruchala K. Lu W. Wu C. Olivera G. Forrest L. Tome W. Welsh J. Jeraj R. Harari P. Reckwerdt P. Paliwal B. Ritter M. Keller H. Fowler J. Mehta M. Image guidance for precise conformal radiotherapy. [Review] [131 refs]  International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. 56(1):89-105, 2003 May 1.

• Wu C. Jeraj R. Olivera GH. Mackie TR. Re-optimization in adaptive radiotherapy. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 47(17):3181-95, 2002 Sep 7.

• Keller H. Glass M. Hinderer R. Ruchala K. Jeraj R. Olivera G. Mackie TR. Monte Carlo study of a highly efficient gas ionization detector for megavoltage imaging and image-guided radiotherapy.  Medical Physics. 29(2):165-75, 2002 Feb.

• Reynaert N. Palmans H. Thierens H. Jeraj R. Parameter dependence of the MCNP electron transport in determining dose distributions. Medical Physics. 29(10):2446-54, 2002 Oct.

• Kron T. Haque M. Foulke K. Jeraj R. A flattening filter for brachytherapy skin irradiation.  Physics in Medicine & Biology. 47(5):713-22, 2002 Mar 7.

• Jeraj R. Sarvary A. Kron T. Optimal flattening filter shape of a surface brachytherapy applicator. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 47(5):723-35, 2002 Mar 7.

• Jeraj R. Keall PJ. Siebers JV. The effect of dose calculation accuracy on inverse treatment planning. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 47(3):391-407, 2002 Feb 7

• Keall PJ. Siebers JV. Jeraj R. Mohan R. The effect of dose calculation uncertainty on the evaluation of radiotherapy plans.  Medical Physics. 27(3):478-84, 2000 Mar.

• Jeraj R. Keall P. The effect of statistical uncertainty on inverse treatment planning based on Monte Carlo dose calculation. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 45(12):3601-13, 2000 Dec.

• Jeraj R. Keall P. Monte Carlo-based inverse treatment planning.[see comment]. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 44(8):1885-96, 1999 Aug.

• Jeraj R. Keall PJ. Ostwald PM. Comparisons between MCNP, EGS4 and experiment for clinical electron beams.  Physics in Medicine & Biology. 44(3):705-17, 1999 Mar.

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