Radiation Oncology

An Tai, PhD Senior Medical Physicist Department of Radiation Oncology 8701 Watertown Plank Road Milwaukee, WI 53226 (414) 805-4366 atai@mcw.edu

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Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, Theoretical Physics, University of Lund, Sweden (1996).
• Master of Science, Physics, Yunnan University, China (1990).
• Bachelor of Science, Physics, Yunnan University, China (1984).

Training

• Post-doctoral Fellow, Medical Physics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (2005-2007).

Certifications

• American Board of Radiology - Therapeutic Radiology Physics - (2010).

Representative Publications

• Allozi R, Li XA, White J, Apte A, Tai A, Michalski JM, Bosch WR, El Naqa I. Tools for consensus analysis of experts' contours for radiotherapy structure definitions. Radiother Oncol 97(3):572-8, 2010.
• Tai A, Christensen JD, Gore E, Khamane A, Boettger T, Li XA.  Gated treatment delivery verification with on line megavoltage fluoroscopy.  Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 76(5):1592-8, 2010.
• Tai A, Erickson B, Li XA.  Extrapolation of normal tissue complication probability for different fractionations in liver irradiation.  Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 74(1):283-289, 2009.  
• Li XA, Tai A, Arthur D, Buchholz T, Macdonald S, Marks L, Moran J, Pierce L, Rabinovitch R, Taghian A, Vicini F, Woodward W, White J.  Variability of target and normal structure delineation for breast cancer radiotherapy: A RTOG multi-institutional and multi-observer study. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 73(3):944-951, 2009. 
• Tai A, Erickson B, Khater K, Li XA.  Estimate of radiobiological parameters from clinical data for biologically based treatment planning for liver irradiation.  Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 70(3):900-907, 2008.