James M. Galvin, D.Sc.

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111 South 11th Street
Room G-321, Bodine Center
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-8855
(215) 955-0412 fax

Medical School
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, B.S., Physics
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, M.S., Nuclear Engineering
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, M.S., Medical Physics
Harvard University, Boston, MA, D.Sc., Medical Physics

Residency

Fellowship
University of Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Board Certification
American Board of Radiology - Therapeutic Medical Physics, June 1995

University Appointment
Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, 1997

Hospital Appointment

Research and Clinical Interests

Publications

Most recent Peer-reviewed Publications

1. Quality requirements for stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) in multi-institutional clinical trials
2. Implementation of remote 3-dimensional image guided radiation therapy quality assurance for radiation therapy oncology group clinical trials
3. Algorithms used in heterogeneous dose calculations show systematic differences as measured with the radiological physics center's anthropomorphic thorax phantom used for RTOG credentialing
4. American college of radiology (ACR) and American society for radiation oncology (ASTRO) practice guideline for intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
5. Compliance with therapeutic guidelines in Radiation Therapy Oncology Group prospective gastrointestinal clinical trials
6. Dosimetric verification using Monte Carlo calculations for tissue heterogeneity-corrected conformal treatment plans following RTOG 0813 dosimetric criteria for lung cancer stereotactic body radiotherapy
7. Application of Dempster-Shafer theory in dose response outcome analysis
8. Standardizing naming conventions in radiation oncology
9. Characteristics of Gafchromic XRQA2 films for kV image dose measurement
10. Multi-system verification of registrations for image-guided radiotherapy in clinical trials
11. Safety considerations for IMRT: Executive summary
12. Safety considerations for IMRT: Executive summary
13. Physical characterization and comparison of two commercially available micro-MLCs
14. Application of evidence theory in radiation oncology outcome analysis
15. Stereotactic body radiation therapy: The report of AAPM Task Group 101
16. Daily Image Guidance With Cone-Beam Computed Tomography for Head-and-Neck Cancer Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy: A Prospective Study
17. Stereotactic body radiation therapy for inoperable early stage lung cancer
18. American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) and American College of Radiology (ACR) Practice Guideline for the Performance of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy
19. American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) and American College of Radiology (ACR) Practice Guidelines for Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)
20. In Reply to Dr. Hurkmans et al.

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