Alireza Kassaee, Ph.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
Division of Medical Physics
Phone: 215-662-6204
Pager: 215-404-7149
Fax: 215-349-5978
Email: kassaee@xrt.upenn.edu
Education
- 1977-81 B.S. State University of New York at Buffalo (Electrical Engineering)
- 1983-89 Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo (Physics)
- 1991-92 Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Physics Residency program, University of Chicago Hospital
- 1992 Research Associate in Medical Physics, University of Chicago
Board Certifications
- American Board of Radiology, Radiation Oncology, 1993
Professional Activities
- American Physical Society
- American Association of Physicists in Medicine
- American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
- IEEE Computer Society
- American Association for Advancement of Science
Awards and Honors
- 1993 Giulio J. D'Angio, M.D. teaching award in Radiation Oncology
Publications
1. P. Bloch, MD Altschuler, BE Bjarngard, A Kassaee, J McDonough: "Determining clinical photon beam spectra from measured depth dose with the cimmino algorithm." Physics in Medicine and Biology 45:171-183, Jan 2000.
2. A Kassaee, P Bloch, E Yorke, MD Altschuler, DI Rosenthal: "Beam spoilers versus Bolus for 6MV photon treatment of head and neck cancers." Medical Dosimetry 25, 127-131, Fall 2000.
3. ED Yorke, A Kassaee, T Doyle, DI Rosenthal: "The dose distribution of medium energy electron boosts to the laryngectomy stoma." Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Medical Physics 2:9-20, 2001.
4. IJ Das, MB Dowens, A Kassaee, Z Tochner: "Choice of radiation detectors in dosimetry of stereotactic radiosurgery-radiotherapy." Journal of Radiosurgery 3:177-186, 2000.
5. IJ Das, A Kassaee, F Verhaegen, VP Moskvin: "Interface dosimetry: measurements and Monte Carlo simulations of low energy photon beams." Radiation Physics and Chemistry 61:593-595, 2001.
6. A Kassaee, Y Xiao, P Bloch, J Goldwein, DI Rosenthal, BE Bjarngard: "Doses near the surface during total-body irradiation with 15 MV x-rays." International Journal Cancer 96:2002.
7. A Kassaee, IJ Das, Z Tochner, DI Rosenthal: "Modification of Gill-Thomas-Cosmas frame for extracranial haed0and-neck stereotactic radiotherapy." Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2003 Nov 15:57(4):1192-5.
8. Z Wu, SJ Bensinger, J Zhang, C Chen, X Yuan, X Huang, JF Markmann, A Kassaee, BR Rosengard, WW Hancock, MH Sayegh, LA Turka: "Homeostatic proliferation is a barrier to transplantation tolerance." Nat Med 2004 Jan;10(1):87-92. Epub 2003 Nov 30.
9. IJ Das, CW Cheng, RK Mitra, A Kassaee, Z Tochner, LJ Solin: "Transmission and dose perturbations with high-Z materials in clinical electron beams." Med Phys 2004 Dec 31(12):3213-21.
10. A. Sarkar, RJ Santiago, R Smith, A Kassaee: "Comparison of manual vs. automated multimodality (CT-MRI) image registration for brain tumors". (accepted for publication in Medical Dosimetry for 2005).
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