X. Allen Li, PhD, DABMP, FAAPM

Professor and Chief, Medical Physics

Locations

Radiation Oncology

Contact Information

Education

PhD, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1992
MS, Electron Optics and Electron Microscopy, Department of Physics, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, 1986
BS, Electron Physics, Department of Physics, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, 1983

Biography

Training

Clinical Physics Resident, Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre, Ottawa, Canada (1993-1994)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Ionizing Radiation, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada (1992-1993)

Certifications

Medical Physics-Radiation Oncology Physics, American Board of Medical Physicists (2001)

Medical Physics-Radiation Oncology Physics, Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine (1994)

Leadership Positions

Chief of Medical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology

Research Interests

Adaptive radiation therapy
Biological modeling for radiation treatment planning
Anatomical/biological/functional imaging guided radiotherapy planning and delivery
Monte Carlo application to radiotherapy dosimetry

Deep Learning-Based Automatic Detection of Brain Metastases in Heterogenous Multi-Institutional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Sets: An Exploratory Analysis of NRG-CC001.

(Liang Y, Lee K, Bovi JA, Palmer JD, Brown PD, Gondi V, Tomé WA, Benzinger TLS, Mehta MP, Li XA.) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2022 Nov 01;114(3):529-536 PMID: 35787927 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85136651527 07/06/2022
A Prior Knowledge-Guided, Deep Learning-Based Semiautomatic Segmentation for Complex Anatomy on Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

(Zhang Y, Liang Y, Ding J, Amjad A, Paulson E, Ahunbay E, Hall WA, Erickson B, Li XA.) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2022 Oct 01;114(2):349-359 PMID: 35667525 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85136545309 06/07/2022
Development and implementation of an automatic air delineation technique for MRI-guided adaptive radiation therapy.

(Ahunbay E, Parchur AK, Paulson E, Chen X, Omari E, Li XA.) Phys Med Biol. 2022 07 12;67(14) PMID: 35732168 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85134474387 06/23/2022
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
General and custom deep learning autosegmentation models for organs in head and neck, abdomen, and male pelvis.

(Amjad A, Xu J, Thill D, Lawton C, Hall W, Awan MJ, Shukla M, Erickson BA, Li XA.) Med Phys. 2022 Mar;49(3):1686-1700 PMID: 35094390 PMCID: PMC8917093 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85124464974 01/31/2022
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
Magnetic resonance linear accelerator technology and adaptive radiation therapy: An overview for clinicians.

(Hall WA, Paulson E, Li XA, Erickson B, Schultz C, Tree A, Awan M, Low DA, McDonald BA, Salzillo T, Glide-Hurst CK, Kishan AU, Fuller CD.) CA Cancer J Clin. 2022 01;72(1):34-56 PMID: 34792808 PMCID: PMC8985054 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85119184109 11/19/2021
In Reply to Erguchi et al.

(Lee P, Tai A, Li XA.) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 11 15;111(4):1089-1090 PMID: 34655553 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85116537307 10/17/2021
Radiation Therapy for Treatment of Soft Tissue Sarcoma in Adults: Executive Summary of an ASTRO Clinical Practice Guideline.

(Salerno KE, Alektiar KM, Baldini EH, Bedi M, Bishop AJ, Bradfield L, Chung P, DeLaney TF, Folpe A, Kane JM, Li XA, Petersen I, Powell J, Stolten M, Thorpe S, Trent JC, Voermans M, Guadagnolo BA.) Pract Radiat Oncol. 2021 Sep-Oct;11(5):339-351 PMID: 34326023 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85113560673 07/31/2021
Maximizing Tumor Control and Limiting Complications With Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer

(Mahadevan A, Moningi S, Grimm J, Li XA, Forster KM, Palta M, Prior P, Goodman KA, Narang A, Heron DE, Lo SS, Urbanic J, Herman JM.) International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics. 1 May 2021;110(1):206-216 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85098213635 05/01/2021
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Spinal Metastases: Tumor Control Probability Analyses and Recommended Reporting Standards

(Soltys SG, Grimm J, Milano MT, Xue J, Sahgal A, Yorke E, Yamada Y, Ding GX, Li XA, Lovelock DM, Jackson A, Ma L, El Naqa I, Gibbs IC, Marks LB, Benedict S.) International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics. 1 May 2021;110(1):112-123 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100092459 05/01/2021
Tumor Control Probability Modeling for Radiation Therapy of Keratinocyte Carcinoma.

(Prior P, Awan MJ, Wilson JF, Li XA.) Front Oncol. 2021;11:621641 PMID: 34079752 PMCID: PMC8165325 06/04/2021