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

Bruce R. Thomadsen, Ph.D.

Professor, Medical Physics

B1143 Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research

UW-Medical Physics, Radiation Therapy

Madison, WI 53705

Telephone: 608/263-4183

Fax: 608/262-2413

E-mail: brthomad@wisc.edu

PROFILE LINKS

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• Education

• Research Interest

• Certification

• Research Interests

• Awards and Honors

• Memberships

• Publications (recent)

• Human Oncology

• B.A., Physics, University of Michigan

• M.S., Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• M.S., Physics, Michigan State University

• Ph.D., Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Diplomat, American Board of Radiology - Radiological Physics

• Diplomat, American Board of Health Physics - Comprehensive Health Physics

• Diplomat, American Board of Medical Physics - Radiation Oncology Physics

• Diplomat, Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study

• Investigation of methods of quantization of radiation dose in tissue

• Evaluation of dose distributions in tissue, particularly in brachytherapy, and in conformal treatment utilizing multimodality imaging

• Measurement of radiation from various sources

• Development and application of safety practices in radiation therapy

• American Academy of Health Physics

• American Association of Physicists in Medicine

• American Brachytherapy Society

• American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and ONCOLOGY

• Health Physics Society

• Beta Beta Beta - Biological Science Honorary

PUBLICATIONS (recent) [back to top of page]

1. B. Thomadsen A. Charkri. Quality Management for Intravascular Brachytherapy, in S. Balter, R. C. Chan, T. B. Shope, Jr. (eds) Intravascular Brachytherapy/Fluoroscopically Guided Interventions. (Madison, WI.: Medical Physics Publishing, 2002).

2. B. Thomadsen,. M. Mehta, S. Howard, R. Das. Craniospinal Treatment with the Patient Supine. Medical Dosimetry 28: 35 - 38 (2003).

3. Thomadsen B, Lin S-W, Laemmrich P, Waller T, Cheng A, Caldwell B, Rankin R, Stitt, J. Analysis of Treatment Delivery Errors in Brachytherapy Using Formal Risk Analysis Techniques. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 57: 1492 – 1508 (2003).

4. S Yoo, ME Kowalok, BR Thomadsen, DL Henderson. Treatment planning for prostate brachytherapy using region of interest adjoint functions and a greedy heuristic. Phys Med Biol 48: 4077–4090 (2003).

5. Meyer RR, D’Souza WD, Ferris MC, Thomadsen BR. MIP models and BB strategies in brachytherapy treatment optimization.  J Global Optimization 25: 23 – 42 (2003).

6. Jursinic PA, Thomadsen BR, Measurements of head-scatter factors with cylindrical build-up caps and columnar miniphantoms. Medical Physic, 26: 512-7 (1999).

7. Meyer RR, D’Souza WD, Ferris MC, Thomadsen BR. MIP models and BB strategies in brachytherapy treatment optimization.  J Global Optimization 25: 23 – 42 (2003).

8. Love RR. Ba Duc N. Cong Binh N. Mahler PA. Thomadsen BR. Hong Long N. Shen TZ. Havighurst TC. Postmastectomy radiotherapy in premenopausal Vietnamese and Chinese women with breast cancer treated in an adjuvant hormonal therapy study. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. 56: 697 - 703, (2003).

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