Faculty Research Advisors

Faculty research interests encompass a broad range of basic science and clinical science specialties reflecting the contemporary breadth of radiological science endeavors. The faculty listed here includes all members that are authorized to advise the research theses and/or dissertations of students in radiological sciences. The full faculty list includes additional specialists who can assist with the graduate education process by providing occasional lectures and/or serving on thesis or dissertation committees.

William Bice, Adjunct Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Florida, 1985. Brachytherapy and inhomogeneity correction, compensating filter design and calculation methods, scatter radiography.

Melissa Blough, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D., UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, 1999. Comparison of Brachytherapy Dose Distributions based on Transmission Dose Measurements in Order to Quantify Source Motion.

Michael Charlton, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2001. Pilot study evaluating liquid and solid shreddate activity fractions from liquid scintillation vial shredding operations.

Geoffrey D. Clarke, Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, 1984. Vice-Chair for Graduate Education, Department of Radiology. Cardiovascular imaging physics, methods for clinical imaging equipment quality control, radiation dosimetry in diagnostic radiology, in-vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy, novel MRI methods, medical image processing.

Gerald Dodd,III, Professor, M.D. University of Texas at Houston, 1983. Chairman, Department of Radiology. Detection and treatment of primary and secondary malignant hepatic tumors.

Peter T. Fox, Professor, M.D. Georgetown, 1979. Director, Research Imaging Center. Functional organization of the human cerebral cortex using noninvasive imaging with positron, emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Gary D. Fullerton, Professor, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 1974. Vice-Chair, Division of Research, Department of Radoilogy. Biophysics of medical imaging processes; molecular basis of MRI contrast; biophysical effects of water hydrogen bonding to macromolecular molecules; factors controlling cell hydration.

David C. Glahn, Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2000. Chief of the Neuroimaging Core in the Department of Psychiatry. Application of neurocognitive and neuroimaging measures in genetic studies of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Randolph D. Glickman, Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Toronto 1978. Senderoff Professor of Vision Research in the Department of Ophthalmology. Retinal physiology and pharmacology and in laser medical applications. Laser bioeffects; photochemical aspects of light interaction with ocular tissues; retinal signal processing and electrophysiology.

David Lloyd Goff, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles 1995. Dynamic Wedging of Irregular Field Shapes using a Multileaf Collimator.

Beth A. Goins, Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Tennessee (Knoxville) 1988. Director, Small Animal Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology. Use of liposomes in the detection of various disease processes and use of liposomes as drug carriers. Small animal imaging using nuclear medicine and computed tomography methods.

L. Jean Hardies, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 1986. Chief, Technical Resources Division, Research Imaging Center. High-resoluation nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging, biochemistry, chemistry, and in vivo spectroscopy.

James M. Hevezi, Professor, Ph.D. Notre Dame 1969. Three-dimensional treatment planning and 3D Stereotactic CT-Guided Brachytherapy.

Paul A. Jerabek, Associate Professor, Ph.D. California, Irvine, 1982, Chief, Positron Emission Tomography Division, Research Imaging Center. Radiopharmaceutical chemistry, synthesis and development of positron emitting radiopharmaceuticals for application to positron emission tomography (PET) studies.

Carl Keener, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D. UT Health Science Center at San Antonio 1996. Algorithm for Predicting Peptide Nonideality in Water.

Peter Kochunov, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. UT Health Science Center at San Antonio 2000. Regional spatial normalization of human brain. Probabilistic atlas building. Computational neuroanatomy.

Jack L. Lancaster, Professor, Ph.D. UT Health Science Center at Dallas 1978. Chief, Biomedical Image Analysis Division, Research Imaging Center. Extraction of information from medical images using the fundamental steps of image processing. Works with programmers and researchers to develop software not available commercially to enable the exploration of new biological and medical research questions using tomographic images (MRI, CT, PET, and SPECT).

William McDavid, Professor, Ph.D. Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 1976. Diagnostic imaging, computer application in radiology, dental x-ray equipment and techniques.

Shalini Narayana, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1996. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.

Mohan Natarajan, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Madras, India 1986. Sequential and coordinated molecular events occurring after radiotherapeutic doses of ionizing radiation, including examination of the hypothesis that radiation-induced cellular responses are triggered by the activation of one or more inducible master switch molecule (transcriptional regulators such as NF-kB) which regulate the expression of specific set of genes and gene products.

Niko Papanikolaou, Professor, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994. Director of Medical Physics at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center. Dose computation, optimization and image guided radiotherapy.

Qi (Chris) Peng, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. , University of Texas Southwestern Medical center in Dallas, 2005. Magnetic resonance imaging physics.

William T. Phillips, Professor, Ph.D. UT Medical Branch at Galveston 1980. Use of liposomes in diagnostic imaging and drug delivery; use of blood tracers in blood substitute development; gastric emptying scintigraphy in diabetes and for studies of nutrient and drug delivery.

James Prete, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D. UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, 1998. The Tumor Control Probability Model for Transperineal Permanent Prostate Brachytherapy and Prostate-Specific Antigen Failure Free Survival.

Amir Sadeghi, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D. UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, 1996.

Jair Soares, Professor, M.D. University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1990, Deputy Chairman for Research, Department of Psychiatry. Mood disorders, brain imaging, clinical psychopharmacology.

Jonathan Tucker, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D. UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, 2000.

Robert G. Waggener, Professor, Ph.D. UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston 1968. Radiation oncology; 3-D treatment planning; applications of CT to radiation oncology; imaging aspects of treatment planning.

Wayne A. Wiatrowski, Associate Professor, Ph.D. UT Health Science Center at San Antonio 1979. Operational health physics and radiation therapy.

Nicole Yvonne Wicha, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Univ. of California at San Diego, 2002. Cognitive and neural bases of monolingual and multilingual language processing, Language processing during development, aging and under abnormal circumstances, Semantic and syntactic context effects in language comprehension, Effects of hormones on cognition in healthy adult, clinical and aging populations, Brain imaging techniques.