George Xu

Xie George Xu (born June 13, 1962 in Wuhan, China) is a professor with the Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After receiving a PhD. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University, he joined RPI in 1995, where he soon received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 1999. He is currently a Full Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics.^[1]

Xu heads the Rensselaer Radiation Measurement and Dosimetry Group (RRDMG) at RPI, and is most well known for his work in computerized simulation of the effect of radiation on the human body, particularly the development of computational human phantom models. He is also the founding director of the Center for Engineering-Based Patient Modeling.

Book Chapters and Invited Journal Reviews^[2]

• Xu, XG (editor). Handbook of Anatomical Models for Radiation Dosimetry Taylor & Francis, 2009.

• Xu XG, Bednarz B. Paganetti H. A Review of Dosimetry Studies on External-Beam Radiation Treatment with Respect to Second Cancer Induction. Phys. Med. Biol. 53: R193-R241. 2008.

• Zaidi H, Xu XG. "Computational Anthropomorphic Models of the Human Anatomy: The Path to Realistic Monte Carlo Modeling in Radiological Sciences" in Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 9, 471-500, 2007.

• Xu XG. "Chapter 9. Modeling of Human Anatomy for Radiation Dosimetry: An Example of the VIP-Man Model" In “Applied Modeling and Computations in Nuclear Science". Semkow et al. Eds., Oxford University Press, 2006.

Recent Invited Talks

• “Biomedical Physics Research at Rensselaer: An Engineering Approach"
  • Keynote presentation, UCLA Biomedical Physics Graduate Program Annual Colloquium, May 9, 2008.
• "Two-dosimeter Algorithms for the Assessment of Effective Dose Equivalent"
  • Plenary presentation, The 41st Annual National Conference on Radiation Control: Advancing Radiation Protection in the 21st Century, Hyatt Regency, Columbus, Ohio, May 18–21, 2009.
• “Recent Progress on Computational Phantoms and Applications to Imaging and Therapy"
  • Seminar, Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 8-9am, January 7, 2010.
• "Medical Physics Research at RPI – A Journey in Search of the Next Big Thing"
  • Seminar, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, January 12, 2010.
• "Trends in Radiation Protection Dosimetry: The New ICRP-103 Algorithms and Computational Phantoms"
  • Plenary presentation, 2010 American Nuclear Society, Joint RPSD, IRD & BMD International Topical Meeting, Palace Station Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV, April 19–23, 2010.
• "New, Realistic Models of the Adult Female in Pregnancy for Use in Dose Assessment"
  • Invited presentation, Continuous Education Course “New Internal Dose Models – Evaluation and Impact” Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 5–9, 2010.
• "Software Tools for PET and CT Dose Calculations"
  • Invited presentation, Continuous Education Course “Dose Estimation and Reduction in PET/CT Imaging” Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 5–9, 2010.
• "3D/4D Human Modeling and Monte Carlo Dose Calculation for Radiation Protection, Imaging and Radiotherapy"
  • Plenary presentation, The Joint International Conference of the 7th Supercomputing in Nuclear Application and the 3rd Monte Carlo (SNA + MC2010), Tokyo, Japan, October 17–21, 2010.

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