Qihui Lyu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Radiation Oncology
School of Medicine
Dr. Lyu is an Assistant Professor in Residence at the UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology. She received her bachelor’s degree in physics from Nanjing University in 2016, and her PhD in Medical Physics from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2021. From 2021 to 2023, she received clinical training from the UCLA Medical Physics Residency Program.
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Her research focuses on image reconstruction, dual-energy CT, treatment plan optimization, machine learning, etc. Dr. Lyu developed optimization algorithms that open new dimensions in image-guided radiotherapy.
Awards
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- AAPM BEST award, AAPM, 2022
- Early-Career Investigator Symposium, First place, AAPM, 2022
- Norm Baily Awards, First place, AAPM South California Chapter, 2022
- Science Council Associates Mentorship Program Associates, AAPM, 2021
- Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA, 2020
- Dr. Moses A. Greenfield Award, UCLA, 2020
Education & Training
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- Residency Medical physics University of California, Los Angeles 06/2023
- Ph.D. Medical physics University of California, Los Angeles 06/2021
- B.S. Physics Nanjing University 06/2016
Websites
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- Lyu Lab (lyulab.ucsf.edu)
Publications (16)
Top publication keywords:
Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-AssistedImaging, Three-DimensionalRadiotherapy, Intensity-ModulatedPatient PositioningRadiotherapy, Computer-AssistedRotationPhotonsProton TherapyRadiation Equipment and SuppliesRoboticsParticle AcceleratorsHead and Neck NeoplasmsPhantoms, ImagingAlgorithmsRadiotherapy Dosage
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Analytical HDR prostate brachytherapy planning with automatic catheter and isotope selection.
Medical physics 2023 Frank CH, Ramesh P, Lyu Q, Ruan D, Park SJ, Chang AJ, Venkat PS, Kishan AU, Sheng K -
Tomographic detection of photon pairs produced from high-energy X-rays for the monitoring of radiotherapy dosing.
Nature biomedical engineering 2022 Lyu Q, Neph R, Sheng K -
An efficient rectangular optimization method for sparse orthogonal collimator based small animal irradiation.
Physics in medicine and biology 2022 Jiang L, Lyu Q, Abdelhamid AMH, Hui S, Sheng K -
Reformulated McNamara RBE-weighted beam orientation optimization for intensity modulated proton therapy.
Medical physics 2022 Ramesh P, Lyu Q, Gu W, Ruan D, Sheng K -
DeepMC: a deep learning method for efficient Monte Carlo beamlet dose calculation by predictive denoising in magnetic resonance-guided radiotherapy.
Physics in medicine and biology 2021 Neph R, Lyu Q, Huang Y, Yang YM, Sheng K
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ROAD: ROtational direct Aperture optimization with a Decoupled ring-collimator for FLASH radiotherapy.
Physics in medicine and biology 2021 Lyu Q, Neph R, O'Connor D, Ruan D, Boucher S, Sheng K -
A novel energy layer optimization framework for spot-scanning proton arc therapy.
Medical physics 2020 Gu W, Ruan D, Lyu Q, Zou W, Dong L, Sheng K -
Many-isocenter optimization for robotic radiotherapy.
Physics in medicine and biology 2020 Lyu Q, Neph R, Yu VY, Ruan D, Boucher S, Sheng K -
Image-domain multimaterial decomposition for dual-energy computed tomography with nonconvex sparsity regularization.
Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) 2019 Lyu Q, O'Connor D, Niu T, Sheng K -
Noise Suppression in Image-Domain Multi-Material Decomposition for Dual-Energy CT.
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering 2019 Jiang Y, Xue Y, Lyu Q, Xu L, Luo C, Yang P, Yang C, Wang J, Hu X, Zhang X, Sheng K, Niu T -
Single-arc VMAT optimization for dual-layer MLC.
Physics in medicine and biology 2019 Lyu Q, Neph R, Yu VY, Ruan D, Sheng K -
A novel optimization framework for VMAT with dynamic gantry couch rotation.
Physics in medicine and biology 2018 Lyu Q, Yu VY, Ruan D, Neph R, O'Connor D, Sheng K -
VMAT optimization with dynamic collimator rotation.
Medical physics 2018 Lyu Q, O'Connor D, Ruan D, Yu V, Nguyen D, Sheng K -
Technical Note: Iterative megavoltage CT (MVCT) reconstruction using block-matching 3D-transform (BM3D) regularization.
Medical physics 2018 Lyu Q, Yang C, Gao H, Xue Y, O'Connor D, Niu T, Sheng K -
Shading correction assisted iterative cone-beam CT reconstruction.
Physics in medicine and biology 2017 Yang C, Wu P, Gong S, Wang J, Lyu Q, Tang X, Niu T -
A comprehensive formulation for volumetric modulated arc therapy planning.
Medical physics 2016 Nguyen D, Lyu Q, Ruan D, O'Connor D, Low DA, Sheng K