Wensha Yang, PhD
Associate Professor
Radiation Oncology
School of Medicine
Awards
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- Fellow, AAPM, 2023
- Second place of AAPM-SSC Norm Baily Award, as mentor and senior author, AAPM Southern California Chapter, 2022
- BEST in PHYSICS Abstract, as senior author, ASTRO, 2022
- BEST in PHYSICS Abstract, as co-author, AAPM, 2021
- Finalist for John R. Cameron Early-Career Investigator Symposium, as co-author, AAPM, 2021
- First place of AAPM-SSC Norm Baily Award, as mentor and senior author, AAPM Southern California Chapter, 2021
- Featured article focusing on Medical Physics (PMID 33186927), as senior author, IOP publishing, 2021
- BEST in PHYSICS Abstract, as first author, ASTRO, 2016
- BEST in PHYSICS Abstract, as first author, AAPM, 2015
- Nellie Award for women scientists, American Vacuum Society, 2004
- Outstanding Student Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004
- Rohm and Haas Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004
- Outstanding student award, University of Science and Technology of China, 1999
- Outstanding student award, University of Science and Technology of China, 1998
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2022
- clinical training Medical Physics University of Virginia 2011
- PhD Material Chemistry University of Wisconsin-Madison 2005
- BS Material Chemistry University of Science and Technology of China 2001
Websites
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- UCSF Radiation Oncology (radonc.ucsf.edu)
Grants and Projects
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- MRI-informed CBCT for liver stereotactic body radiation therapy, VARIAN, a Siemens Healthineers Company, 2024-2026
- Advanced prediction of GBM recurrence (TIME) for personalized radiotherapy, NIH/NCI, 2023-2025
- Multi-Task MR Simulation for Abdominal Radiation Treatment Planning, NIH, 2020-2024
- Multi-Task 4DMR for adaptive radiation therapy, Ming Hsieh Institute Award, 2021-2022
- Novel four dimensional magnetic resonance imaging to monitor pancreatic tumor infiltrating blood vessels and tumor response to chemoradiation therapy, NIH, 2019-2021
- Multi-parametric MRI Guided Liver Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy, CTSI core laboratory service voucher, 2015-2016
- Improving Pancreas RT Plans using Respiration-driven Anatomic Deformation, NIH, 2013-2015
- Use of Quantum Dot Semiconductor nanoparticle to mediate energy transfer from mega-voltage X-ray to Photofrin for enhancement in radiation therapy treatment, Virginia Commonwealth Health Research, 2008-2010
- Use of Quantum Dot Semiconductor nanoparticle to mediate energy transfer from mega-voltage X-ray to Photofrin for enhancement in radiation therapy treatment, UVA Cancer Center Seed Grant, 2007-2009
- Modification of Semiconductor nanoparticle surface with Photofrin for radio sensitization in radiation therapy, Coulter foundation, 2007-2008
Publications (62)
Top publication keywords:
Four-Dimensional Computed TomographyRadiosurgeryUnilateral Breast NeoplasmsBreath HoldingRadiotherapy, Image-GuidedMovementRadiometryMeningeal NeoplasmsRadiotherapy DosageMagnetic Resonance ImagingRadiotherapy Planning, Computer-AssistedInhalationMeningiomaPancreatic NeoplasmsRespiratory-Gated Imaging Techniques
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A repository of grade 1 and 2 meningioma MRIs in a public dataset for radiomics reproducibility tests.
Medical physics 2023 Vassantachart A, Cao Y, Shen Z, Cheng K, Gribble M, Ye JC, Zada G, Hurth K, Mathew A, Guzman S, Yang W -
A cross-sectional study to test equivalence of low- versus intermediate-flip angle dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI measures of relative cerebral blood volume in patients with high-grade gliomas at 1.5 Tesla field strength.
Frontiers in oncology 2023 Shiroishi MS, Weinert D, Cen SY, Varghese B, Dondlinger T, Prah M, Mendoza J, Nazemi S, Ameli N, Amini N, Shohas S, Chen S, Bigjahan B, Zada G, Chen T, Neman-Ebrahim J, Chang EL, Chow FE, Fan Z, Yang … -
Semantic modeling of hyperspectral target detection with weak labels
Signal Processing 2023 Changzhe Jiao, Bo Yang, Lirong Liu, Chao Chen, Xiaoying Chen, Wensha Yang, Licheng Jiao -
Contrast-Enhanced Liver Magnetic Resonance Image Synthesis Using Gradient Regularized Multi-Modal Multi-Discrimination Sparse Attention Fusion GAN.
Cancers 2023 Jiao C, Ling D, Bian S, Vassantachart A, Cheng K, Mehta S, Lock D, Zhu Z, Feng M, Thomas H, Scholey JE, Sheng K, Fan Z, Yang W -
A quantitative characterization of the spatial distribution of brain metastases from breast cancer and respective molecular subtypes.
Journal of neuro-oncology 2022 Mahmoodifar S, Pangal DJ, Cardinal T, Craig D, Simon T, Tew BY, Yang W, Chang E, Yu M, Neman J, Mason J, Toga A, Salhia B, Zada G, Newton PK
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MR multitasking-based dynamic imaging for cerebrovascular evaluation (MT-DICE): Simultaneous quantification of permeability and leakage-insensitive perfusion by dynamic T1/T2* mapping.
Magnetic resonance in medicine 2022 Hu Z, Christodoulou AG, Wang N, Xie Y, Shiroishi MS, Yang W, Zada G, Chow FE, Margol AS, Tamrazi B, Chang EL, Li D, Fan Z -
Single projection driven real-time multi-contrast (SPIDERM) MR imaging using pre-learned spatial subspace and linear transformation.
Physics in medicine and biology 2022 Han P, Chen J, Xiao J, Han F, Hu Z, Yang W, Cao M, Ling DC, Li D, Christodoulou AG, Fan Z -
Automatic differentiation of Grade I and II meningiomas on magnetic resonance image using an asymmetric convolutional neural network.
Scientific reports 2022 Vassantachart A, Cao Y, Gribble M, Guzman S, Ye JC, Hurth K, Mathew A, Zada G, Fan Z, Chang EL, Yang W -
Automatic segmentation of high-risk clinical target volume for tandem-and-ovoids brachytherapy patients using an asymmetric dual-path convolutional neural network.
Medical physics 2022 Cao Y, Vassantachart A, Ragab O, Bian S, Mitra P, Xu Z, Gallogly AZ, Cui J, Shen ZL, Balik S, Gribble M, Chang EL, Fan Z, Yang W -
Voxelwise Prediction of Recurrent High-Grade Glioma via Proximity Estimation-Coupled Multidimensional Support Vector Machine.
International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2021 Lao Y, Ruan D, Vassantachart A, Fan Z, Ye JC, Chang EL, Chin R, Kaprealian T, Zada G, Shiroishi MS, Sheng K, Yang W -
Anatomical and topographical variations in the distribution of brain metastases based on primary cancer origin and molecular subtypes: a systematic review.
Neuro-oncology advances 2021 Cardinal T, Pangal D, Strickland BA, Newton P, Mahmoodifar S, Mason J, Craig D, Simon T, Tew BY, Yu M, Yang W, Chang E, Cabeen RP, Ruzevick J, Toga AW, Neman J, Salhia B, Zada G -
Bladder surface dose modeling in prostate cancer radiotherapy: An analysis of motion-induced variations and the cumulative dose across the treatment.
Medical physics 2021 Lao Y, Cao M, Yang Y, Kishan AU, Yang W, Wang Y, Sheng K -
Surviving Over a Decade With Glioblastoma: A Clinical Course Characterized by Multiple Recurrences, Numerous Salvage Treatments, and Novel Use of Cesium-131 Tiles.
Cureus 2021 Mehta S, Vassantachart AK, Fossum CC, Yang W, Shen ZL, Chang KE, Ye JC, Chen TC, Chang EL -
Commensal bacteria and fungi differentially regulate tumor responses to radiation therapy.
Cancer cell 2021 Shiao SL, Kershaw KM, Limon JJ, You S, Yoon J, Ko EY, Guarnerio J, Potdar AA, McGovern DPB, Bose S, Dar TB, Noe P, Lee J, Kubota Y, Maymi VI, Davis MJ, Henson RM, Choi RY, Yang W, Tang J, Gargus M, … -
Quantitative Characterization of Tumor Proximity to Stem Cell Niches: Implications on Recurrence and Survival in GBM Patients.
International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2021 Lao Y, Yu V, Pham A, Wang T, Cui J, Gallogly A, Chang E, Fan Z, Kaprealian T, Yang W, Sheng K -
Automatic detection and segmentation of multiple brain metastases on magnetic resonance image using asymmetric UNet architecture.
Physics in medicine and biology 2021 Cao Y, Vassantachart A, Ye JC, Yu C, Ruan D, Sheng K, Lao Y, Shen ZL, Balik S, Bian S, Zada G, Shiu A, Chang EL, Yang W -
Fully automated multiorgan segmentation in abdominal magnetic resonance imaging with deep neural networks.
Medical physics 2020 Chen Y, Ruan D, Xiao J, Wang L, Sun B, Saouaf R, Yang W, Li D, Fan Z -
Quantifying vascular invasion in pancreatic cancer-a contrast CT based method for surgical resectability evaluation.
Physics in medicine and biology 2020 Lao Y, David J, Fan Z, Bian S, Shiu A, Chang EL, Sheng K, Yang W, Tuli R -
Deformable alignment of longitudinal postoperative brain GBM scans using deep learning
Proc. SPIE 11313, Medical Imaging 2020: Image Processing 2020 Yi Lao, Victoria Yu, Eric Chang, Wensha Yang, Ke Sheng -
Six-dimensional quantitative DCE MR Multitasking of the entire abdomen: Method and application to pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Magnetic resonance in medicine 2020 Wang N, Gaddam S, Wang L, Xie Y, Fan Z, Yang W, Tuli R, Lo S, Hendifar A, Pandol S, Christodoulou AG, Li D -
Combined morphologic and metabolic pipeline for Positron emission tomography/computed tomography based radiotherapy response evaluation in locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
Physics and imaging in radiation oncology 2019 Lao Y, David J, Torosian A, Placencio V, Wang Y, Hendifar A, Yang W, Tuli R -
A post-processing method based on interphase motion correction and averaging to improve image quality of 4D magnetic resonance imaging: a clinical feasibility study.
The British journal of radiology 2019 Deng Z, Pang J, Lao Y, Bi X, Wang G, Chen Y, Fenchel M, Tuli R, Li D, Yang W, Fan Z -
Discriminating lung adenocarcinoma from lung squamous cell carcinoma using respiration-induced tumor shape changes.
Physics in medicine and biology 2018 Lao Y, David J, Mirhadi A, Lepore N, Sandler H, Wang Y, Tuli R, Yang W -
Novel 4D-MRI of tumor infiltrating vasculature: characterizing tumor and vessel volume motion for selective boost volume definition in pancreatic radiotherapy.
Radiation oncology (London, England) 2018 Yang W, Fan Z, Deng Z, Pang J, Bi X, Fraass BA, Sandler H, Li D, Tuli R -
Improved vessel-tissue contrast and image quality in 3D radial sampling-based 4D-MRI.
Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2017 Deng Z, Yang W, Pang J, Bi X, Tuli R, Li D, Fan Z -
Influence of Body Mass Index and Albumin on Perioperative Morbidity and Clinical Outcomes in Resected Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma.
PloS one 2016 Hendifar A, Osipov A, Khanuja J, Nissen N, Naziri J, Yang W, Li Q, Tuli R -
Nonlocal Means Denoising of Self-Gated and k-Space Sorted 4-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Block-Matching and 3-Dimensional Filtering: Implications for Pancreatic Tumor Registration and Segmentation.
International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2016 Jin J, McKenzie E, Fan Z, Tuli R, Deng Z, Pang J, Fraass B, Li D, Sandler H, Yang G, Sheng K, Gou S, Yang W -
Geometric validation of self-gating k-space-sorted 4D-MRI vs 4D-CT using a respiratory motion phantom.
Medical physics 2015 Yue Y, Fan Z, Yang W, Pang J, Deng Z, McKenzie E, Tuli R, Wallace R, Li D, Fraass B -
Four-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging With 3-Dimensional Radial Sampling and Self-Gating-Based K-Space Sorting: Early Clinical Experience on Pancreatic Cancer Patients.
International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2015 Yang W, Fan Z, Tuli R, Deng Z, Pang J, Wachsman A, Reznik R, Sandler H, Li D, Fraass BA -
Four-dimensional MRI using three-dimensional radial sampling with respiratory self-gating to characterize temporal phase-resolved respiratory motion in the abdomen.
Magnetic resonance in medicine 2015 Deng Z, Pang J, Yang W, Yue Y, Sharif B, Tuli R, Li D, Fraass B, Fan Z -
Clinical experience using a video-guided spirometry system for deep inhalation breath-hold radiotherapy of left-sided breast cancer.
Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2015 Yang W, McKenzie EM, Burnison M, Shiao S, Mirhadi A, Hakimian B, Reznik R, Tuli R, Sandler H, Fraass BA -
Dosimetric evaluation of simultaneous integrated boost during stereotactic body radiation therapy for pancreatic cancer.
Medical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists 2014 Yang W, Reznik R, Fraass BA, Nissen N, Hendifar A, Wachsman A, Sandler H, Tuli R -
Adequacy of inhale/exhale breathhold CT based ITV margins and image-guided registration for free-breathing pancreas and liver SBRT.
Radiation oncology (London, England) 2014 Yang W, Fraass BA, Reznik R, Nissen N, Lo S, Jamil LH, Gupta K, Sandler H, Tuli R -
Computed tomography-based anatomic assessment overestimates local tumor recurrence in patients with mass-like consolidation after stereotactic body radiotherapy for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer.
International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2012 Dunlap NE, Yang W, McIntosh A, Sheng K, Benedict SH, Read PW, Larner JM -
STAT RAD: A Potential Real-Time Radiation Therapy Workflow, Edited by Gopishankar Natanasabapathi
Modern Practices in Radiation Therapy 2012 David Wilson, Ke Sheng, Wensha Yang, Ryan Jones, Neal Dunlap, Paul Read -
Feasibility of non-coplanar tomotherapy for lung cancer stereotactic body radiation therapy.
Technology in cancer research & treatment 2011 Yang W, Jones R, Lu W, Geesey C, Benedict S, Read P, Larner J, Sheng K -
Radiation therapy of post-mastectomy patients with positive nodes using fixed beam tomotherapy.
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology 2011 Jones R, Yang W, Read P, Sheng K -
Nanomaterials for the Life Sciences New York: Wiley; Challa S. S. R. Kumar Editor, ISBN: 978-3-527-32261-9
2011 Ke Sheng, Wensha Yang -
3D dose verification using tomotherapy CT detector array.
International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2011 Sheng K, Jones R, Yang W, Saraiya S, Schneider B, Chen Q, Sobering G, Olivera G, Read P -
Standardized evaluation of simultaneous integrated boost plans on volumetric modulated arc therapy.
Physics in medicine and biology 2010 Yang W, Jones R, Read P, Benedict S, Sheng K -
Tumor cell apoptosis induced by nanoparticle conjugate in combination with radiation therapy.
Nanotechnology 2010 Wang L, Yang W, Read P, Larner J, Sheng K -
Dosimetric comparison of 6 MV and 15 MV single arc rapidarc to helical TomoTherapy for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
Medical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists 2010 Cai J, Yue J, McLawhorn R, Yang W, Wijesooriya K, Dunlap NE, Sheng K, Yin FF, Benedict SH -
SRT and SBRT: Current practices for QA dosimetry and 3D
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2010 Stanley H. Benedict, Jing Cai, Bruce Libby, Michael Lovelock, David Schlesinger, Ke Sheng, Wensha Yang -
Comparison of Elekta VMAT with helical tomotherapy and fixed field IMRT: plan quality, delivery efficiency and accuracy.
Medical physics 2010 Rao M, Yang W, Chen F, Sheng K, Ye J, Mehta V, Shepard D, Cao D -
Helical tomotherapy-based STAT stereotactic body radiation therapy: Dosimetric evaluation for a real-time SBRT treatment planning and delivery program.
Medical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists 2010 Dunlap N, McIntosh A, Sheng K, Yang W, Turner B, Shoushtari A, Sheehan J, Jones DR, Lu W, Ruchala K, Olivera G, Parnell D, Larner JL, Benedict SH, Read PW -
Tumor cell survival dependence on helical tomotherapy, continuous arc and segmented dose delivery.
Physics in medicine and biology 2009 Yang W, Wang L, Larner J, Read P, Benedict S, Sheng K -
Spatial control in the heterogeneous nucleation of water
Applied Physics Letters 2009 Kripa K. Varanasi, Ming Hsu, Nitin Bhate, Wensha Yang, Tao Deng -
Chest wall volume receiving >30 Gy predicts risk of severe pain and/or rib fracture after lung stereotactic body radiotherapy.
International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2009 Dunlap NE, Cai J, Biedermann GB, Yang W, Benedict SH, Sheng K, Schefter TE, Kavanagh BD, Larner JM -
The implication of non-cyclic intrafractional longitudinal motion in SBRT by TomoTherapy.
Physics in medicine and biology 2009 Yang W, Van Ausdal R, Read P, Larner J, Benedict S, Sheng K -
Semiconductor nanoparticles as energy mediators for photosensitizer-enhanced radiotherapy.
International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2008 Yang W, Read PW, Mi J, Baisden JM, Reardon KA, Larner JM, Helmke BP, Sheng K -
Novel FRET-Based Radiosensitization Using Quantum Dot-Photosensitizer Conjugates
IEEE proceeding. 2007 Wensha Yang, Paul W. Read, Jun Mi, James M. Larner, Stanley H. Benedict, Ke Sheng, Brain P. Helmke -
Covalent Molecular Functionalization of Diamond Thin Film Transistors
Diamond and Related Materials 2007 Bin Sun, Sarah E. Baker, James E. Butler, Heesuk Kim, John N. Russell Jr., Lu Shang, Kiu-Yuen Tse, Wensha Yang, Robert J. Hamers -
Direct electrical detection of antigen-antibody binding on diamond and silicon substrates using electrical impedance spectroscopy.
The Analyst 2007 Yang W, Butler JE, Russell JN, Hamers RJ -
Electrical properties of diamond surfaces functionalized with molecular monolayers.
The journal of physical chemistry. B 2005 Tse KY, Nichols BM, Yang W, Butler JE, Russell JN, Hamers RJ -
Electrically Addressable Biomolecular Functionalization of Conductive Polycrystalline Diamond Thin Films
Chemistry of Materials 2005 Wensha Yang, Sarah E. Baker, James E. Butler, Chang-Soo Lee, John N. Russell, Lu Shang, Bin Sun, Robert J. Hamers -
Molecular and biomolecular monolayers on diamond as an interface to biology
Diamond and related materials. 2004 Robert J. Hamers, James E. Butler, Tami Lasseter, Beth M. Nichols, John N. Russell Jr., Kiu-Yuen Tse, Wensha Yang -
Electrically Addressable Biomolecular Functionalization of Carbon Nanotube and Carbon Nanofiber Electrodes
Nano letters 2004 Chang-Soo Lee, Sarah E. Bake, Matthew S. Marcus, Wensha Yang, Robert J. Hamers -
Interfacial electrical properties of DNA-modified diamond thin films: intrinsic response and hybridization-induced field effects.
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 2004 Yang W, Butler JE, Russell JN, Hamers RJ -
Fabrication and characterization of a biologically-sensitive field effect transistor using a Nanocrystalline diamond thin film
Appl. Phys. Lett. 2004 Wensha Yang, Robert J. Hamers -
Invasive cleavage reactions on DNA-modified diamond surfaces.
Biopolymers 2004 Lu M, Knickerbocker T, Cai W, Yang W, Hamers RJ, Smith LM -
DNA-modified nanocrystalline diamond thin-films as stable, biologically active substrates.
Nature materials 2002 Yang W, Auciello O, Butler JE, Cai W, Carlisle JA, Gerbi JE, Gruen DM, Knickerbocker T, Lasseter TL, Russell JN, Smith LM, Hamers RJ -
Preparation and Electrochemical Characterization of DNA-modified Nanocrystalline Diamond Films
Preparation and Electrochemical Characterization of DNA-modified Nanocrystalline Diamond Films 2002 Wensha Yang, Orlando Auciello, James E Butler, Wei Cai, John A Carlisle, Jennifer E Gerbi, Dieter M Gruen, Tanya Knickerbocker, Tami L Lasseter, John N Russell, Lloyd M Smith, Robert J Hamers