Adam Cunha, PhD
Associate Professor
Radiation Oncology
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Postdoctoral Studies Graduate Division University of California, San Francisco

Publications (20)

Top publication keywords:
Radiotherapy, Intensity-ModulatedGenital Neoplasms, FemaleFilm DosimetryBrachytherapyProstatic NeoplasmsBody BurdenProstheses and ImplantsRadiosurgeryRadiometryCatheterizationUrethraIridium RadioisotopesRadiotherapy DosageRadiotherapy Planning, Computer-AssistedWorkflow

• A dosimetric evaluation of using a single treatment plan for multiple treatment fractions within a given applicator insertion in gynecologic brachytherapy.
  Brachytherapy 2013 Pinnaduwage DS, Cunha JA, Weinberg V, Krishnamurthy D, Nash M, Hsu IC, Pouliot J
• Dosimetric analysis of radiation therapy oncology group 0321: the importance of urethral dose.
  Practical radiation oncology 2013 Hsu IC, Hunt D, Straube W, Pouliot J, Cunha A, Krishnamurthy D, Sandler H
• NPIP: A skew line needle configuration optimization system for HDR brachytherapy.
  Medical physics 2012 Siauw T, Cunha A, Berenson D, Atamturk A, Hsu IC, Goldberg K, Pouliot J
• Interactive, multi-modality image registrations for combined MRI/MRSI-planned HDR prostate brachytherapy.
  Journal of contemporary brachytherapy 2011 Reed G, Cunha JA, Noworolski S, Kurhanewicz J, Vigneron D, Hsu IC, Pouliot J
• Comparison of high-dose rate prostate brachytherapy dose distributions with iridium-192, ytterbium-169, and thulium-170 sources.
  Brachytherapy 2011 Krishnamurthy D, Weinberg V, Cunha JA, Hsu IC, Pouliot J
• Toward adaptive stereotactic robotic brachytherapy for prostate cancer: demonstration of an adaptive workflow incorporating inverse planning and an MR stealth robot.
  Minimally invasive therapy & allied technologies : MITAT : official journal of the Society for Minimally Invasive Therapy 2010 Cunha JA, Hsu IC, Pouliot J, Roach Iii M, Shinohara K, Kurhanewicz J, Reed G, Stoianovici D
• Dosimetric impact of interfraction catheter movement in high-dose rate prostate brachytherapy.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2010 Foster W, Cunha JA, Hsu IC, Weinberg V, Krishnamurthy D, Pouliot J
• Inverse planning optimization for hybrid prostate permanent-seed implant brachytherapy plans using two source strengths.
  Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2010 Cunha JA, Pickett B, Pouliot J

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• Feasibility of accelerated image-guided high-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy with inverse planning simulated annealing (IPSA-HDRBT) for post-operative treatment of pathologically node-negative squamous cell carcinomas of the oral tongue.
  Brachytherapy 2022 Cheung CK, Chew J, Wai K, Calkins SM, Ha PK, Ryan WR, Cunha A, Yom SS, Hsu IC, Chan JW
• Salvage High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy for Recurrent Prostate Cancer After Definitive Radiation.
  Practical radiation oncology 2021 Wu SY, Wong AC, Shinohara K, Roach M, Cunha JAM, Valdes G, Hsu IC
• High-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy for vaginal endometrial cancer recurrence after prior surgery and radiotherapy.
  Brachytherapy 2021 Chapman CH, Cunha AJ, Littell RD, Chen LM, Hsu IC
• Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy and High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Boost in Combination With Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer: A Single-Institution Propensity Score Matched Analysis.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2020 Chen WC, Li Y, Lazar A, Altun A, Descovich M, Nano T, Ziemer B, Sudhyadhom A, Cunha A, Thomas H, Gottschalk A, Hsu IC, Roach M
• Brachytherapy Future Directions.
  Seminars in radiation oncology 2020 Cunha JAM, Flynn R, Bélanger C, Callaghan C, Kim Y, Jia X, Chen Z, Beaulieu L
• Salvage HDR Brachytherapy: Multiple Hypothesis Testing Versus Machine Learning Analysis.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2018 Valdes G, Chang AJ, Interian Y, Owen K, Jensen ST, Ungar LH, Cunha A, Solberg TD, Hsu IC
• A method for restricting intracatheter dwell time variance in high-dose-rate brachytherapy plan optimization.
  Brachytherapy 2015 Cunha A, Siauw T, Hsu IC, Pouliot J
• Evaluation of PC-ISO for customized, 3D Printed, gynecologic 192-Ir HDR brachytherapy applicators.
  Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2015 Cunha JA, Mellis K, Sethi R, Siauw T, Sudhyadhom A, Garg A, Goldberg K, Hsu IC, Pouliot J
• Urethra low-dose tunnels: validation of and class solution for generating urethra-sparing dose plans using inverse planning simulated annealing for prostate high-dose-rate brachytherapy.
  Brachytherapy 2011 Cunha JA, Pouliot J, Weinberg V, Wang-Chesebro A, Roach M, Hsu IC
• IPIP: A new approach to inverse planning for HDR brachytherapy by directly optimizing dosimetric indices.
  Medical physics 2011 Siauw T, Cunha A, Atamtürk A, Hsu IC, Pouliot J, Goldberg K
• Catheter-based ultrasound hyperthermia with HDR brachytherapy for treatment of locally advanced cancer of the prostate and cervix.
  Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering 2011 Diederich CJ, Wootton J, Prakash P, Salgaonkar V, Juang T, Scott S, Chen X, Cunha A, Pouliot J, Hsu IC
• Dosimetric equivalence of nonstandard HDR brachytherapy catheter patterns.
  Medical physics 2009 Cunha JA, Hsu IC, Pouliot J