Ergun Ahunbay, PhD

Associate Professor

Locations

Radiation Oncology

Contact Information

Education

PhD, Medical Physics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2001
MS, Medical Physics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 1996
BS, Nuclear Engineering, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, 1993

Biography

Training

Post Doctoral Research Associate at MR Center, Harper Hospital, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (2001-2002)

Certifications

Medical Physics-Radiation Oncology Physics, American Board of Radiology (2005)

Clinical Appointments

Lead Physicist: Drexel Town Square Health Center, 2018 – present

Staff Physicist: Froedtert Hospital, 2004 – present

Research Interests

Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and image guided radiation therapy (IGRT)

Multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging for radiation treatment planning.

(Omari EA, Zhang Y, Ahunbay E, Paulson E, Amjad A, Chen X, Liang Y, Li XA.) Med Phys. 2022 Apr;49(4):2836-2845 PMID: 35170769 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85125520169 02/17/2022
Use of a DVH overlay technique for quality assurance of deformable image registration-based dose accumulation.

(Kainz K, Garcia Alvarez J, Zhong H, Lim S, Ahunbay E, Tai A, Erickson B, Lawton C, Li XA.) Med Phys. 2022 Jan;49(1):611-623 PMID: 34826153 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85120889771 11/27/2021
Should Daily Online Adaptive Replanning be Utilized for Every Treatment in MRI-Guided Radiotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer?

(Omari E, Nasief H, Zhang Y, Parchur AK, Paulson ES, Chen X, Ahunbay EE, Hall WA, Erickson BA, Li A.) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 Nov 01;111(3S):e66 PMID: 34701942 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85120930947 10/28/2021
A Deep Learning-Based Automatic Contour Quality Assurance Pipeline for Complex Anatomy on MRI.

(Zhang Y, Amjad A, Ding J, Ahunbay EE, Li A.) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 Nov 01;111(3S):e509 PMID: 34701623 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85120924942 10/28/2021
Consistency Check of Deformable Image Registration-Based Dose Summation for Off-Line Adaptive Re-Planning.

(Kainz K, Alvarez JG, Zhong H, Tai A, Ahunbay EE, Erickson BA, Li A.) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 Nov 01;111(3S):e150 PMID: 34700789 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85120926545 10/28/2021
On the Development of a Robust Deep Learning Synthetic CT Generation Method for MR-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy of Abdominal Tumors.

(Ahunbay EE, Xu J, Paulson ES, Thill D, Chen X, Omari EA, Li A.) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 Nov 01;111(3S):e106-e107 PMID: 34700690 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85120929400 10/28/2021
A Patient-Specific Autosegmentation Strategy Using Multi-Input Deformable Image Registration for Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Online Adaptive Radiation Therapy: A Feasibility Study.

(Zhang Y, Paulson E, Lim S, Hall WA, Ahunbay E, Mickevicius NJ, Straza MW, Erickson B, Li XA.) Adv Radiat Oncol. 2020 Nov-Dec;5(6):1350-1358 PMID: 33305098 PMCID: PMC7718500 12/12/2020
4D-MRI driven MR-guided online adaptive radiotherapy for abdominal stereotactic body radiation therapy on a high field MR-Linac: Implementation and initial clinical experience.

(Paulson ES, Ahunbay E, Chen X, Mickevicius NJ, Chen GP, Schultz C, Erickson B, Straza M, Hall WA, Li XA.) Clin Transl Radiat Oncol. 2020 Jul;23:72-79 PMID: 32490218 PMCID: PMC7256110 06/04/2020
A Patient-Specific Autosegmentation Strategy Using Multi-Input Deformable Image Registration for Magnetic Resonance Imaging–Guided Online Adaptive Radiation Therapy: A Feasibility Study

(Zhang Y, Paulson E, Lim S, Hall WA, Ahunbay E, Mickevicius NJ, Straza MW, Erickson B, Li XA.) Advances in Radiation Oncology. 1 November 2020;5(6):1350-1358 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85097125143 11/01/2020
Initial clinical experience of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) for liver metastases, primary liver malignancy, and pancreatic cancer with 4D-MRI based online adaptation and real-time MRI monitoring using a 1.5 Tesla MR-Linac.

(Hall WA, Straza MW, Chen X, Mickevicius N, Erickson B, Schultz C, Awan M, Ahunbay E, Li XA, Paulson ES.) PLoS One. 2020;15(8):e0236570 PMID: 32764748 PMCID: PMC7413561 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85089301005 08/09/2020
A daily end-to-end quality assurance workflow for MR-guided online adaptive radiation therapy on MR-Linac.

(Chen X, Ahunbay E, Paulson ES, Chen G, Li XA.) J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2020 Jan;21(1):205-212 PMID: 31799753 PMCID: PMC6964761 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85076117374 12/05/2019

Ergun Ahunbay, PhD