Radiation Oncology

Ryan Flynn, PhD

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Mailing Address

Office: 01623 PFP
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: +1 319 384 8461
Email: ryan-flynn@uiowa.edu

Web: Ryan Flynn Full CV

Education

BA, Physics, Mathematics, Luther College, Decorah, IA, 2002
PhD, Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007

Appointments

Primary: Radiation Oncology

Research Summary

Research interests include imaging improvement including Cone Beam CT's, Treatment safety, X-rays and protons.

Publications

  • Breitbach, E, Maltz, J, Gangadharan, B, Bani-Hashemi, A, Anderson, C, Bhatia, S, Stiles, J, Edwards, D, Flynn, R. Image quality improvement in megavoltage cone beam CT using an imaging beam line and a sintered pixelated array system. Med Phys 38(11):5969-79, 2011. [PubMed]
  • Flynn, R. Loss of radiobiological effect of imaging dose in image guided radiotherapy due to prolonged imaging-to-treatment times. Med Phys 37(6):2761-9, 2010. [PubMed]
  • Barbee, D, Flynn, R, Holden, J, Nickles, R, Jeraj, R. A method for partial volume correction of PET-imaged tumor heterogeneity using expectation maximization with a spatially varying point spread function. Phys Med Biol 55(1):221-36, 2010. [PubMed]
  • Flynn, R, Hartmann, J, Bani-Hashemi, A, Nixon, E, Alfredo, R, Siochi, C, Pennington, E, Bayouth, J. Dosimetric characterization and application of an imaging beam line with a carbon electron target for megavoltage cone beam computed tomography. Med Phys 36(6):2181-92, 2009. [PubMed]
  • Nelms, D, Shukla, H, Nixon, E, Bayouth, J, Flynn, R. Assessment of three dead detector correction methods for cone-beam computed tomography. Med Phys 36(10):4569-76, 2009. [PubMed]
  • Bowen, S, Flynn, R, Bentzen, S, Jeraj, R. On the sensitivity of IMRT dose optimization to the mathematical form of a biological imaging-based prescription function. Phys Med Biol 54(6):1483-501, 2009. [PubMed]
  • Kissick, M, Flynn, R, Westerly, D, Hoban, P, Mo, X, Soisson, E, McCall, K, Mackie, T, Jeraj, R. On the impact of longitudinal breathing motion randomness for tomotherapy delivery. Phys Med Biol 53(18):4855-73, 2008. [PubMed]
  • Flynn, R, Bowen, S, Bentzen, S, Rockwell Mackie, T, Jeraj, R. Intensity-modulated x-ray (IMXT) versus proton (IMPT) therapy for theragnostic hypoxia-based dose painting. Phys Med Biol 53(15):4153-67, 2008. [PubMed]
  • Kissick, M, Flynn, R, Westerly, D, Mackie, T, Hoban, P. On the making of sharp longitudinal dose profiles with helical tomotherapy. Phys Med Biol 52(21):6497-510, 2007. [PubMed]