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Timothy H. Fox, Ph.D.
Director, Medical Physics
Assistant Professor

Education and Degrees

  • Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 1994
  • M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 1992
  • B.S., Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, 1990 

Certification

  • American Board of Radiology, Therapeutic Radiological Physics, 1997   

Special Interests

  • Optimization algorithms, clinical decision making software, dose calculation, visualization, medical imaging and advanced treatment planning systems
  • Intravascular brachytherapy 

Committee Memberships

  • American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Computer Committee, 1996-9

Selected Recent Publications

  • Nowlan AW, Sutter AI, Fox TH, Johnstone PAS.  Electronification of the radiation oncology treatment cycle:  promises and pitfalls of a digital department. Journal of the American College of Radiology 1(4): 270-6; 2004.
  • Lee EK, Fox T, Crocker I.  Integer programming applied to intensity-modulated radiation therapy treatment planning. Annals of Operations Research 119: 165-81; 2003.
  • Paulino A, Thorstad W, Fox T.  Role of fusion in radiotherapy treatment planning.  Seminars in Nuclear Medicine 33(3):  238-43; 2003.  
  • Costa R, Joyal M, Harel F, Fox T, Crocker I, Arsenault A, Grégoire J, Bonan R. Treatment of bifurcation in-stent restenotic lesions with beta radiation using strontium 90 and sequential positioning “pullback” technique:  procedural details and clinical outcomes.  Journal of Invasive Cardiology 15(8): 469-73; 2003.
  • Morino Y, Kaneda H, Fox T, Takagi A, Ali H, Hassan M, Yasuhiro H, Bonan R, Crocker I, Lansky A, Laskey W, Suntharalingam M, Heidi N, Bonneau R, Yock P, Fitzgerald P.  Delivered dose and vascular response following beta radiation for in-stent restenosis:  retrospective dosimetry and volumetric intravascular ultrasound analysis.  Circulation  106(18): 2334-9; 2002.
  • Carlier S, T Fox, I Crocker, Levendag P, Serruys P.  Intravascular ultrasound-based dosimetry.   In:  Vascular Brachytherapy, ed. R Waksman.  Futura Publishing Company, Armonk, NY, 2002.
  • Crocker I, Joyal M, Fox T, Arsenault A, Bonan R.  Treatment of long, diffuse, in-stent restenotic lesions with beta radiation using strontium 90 and sequential positioning "pullback" technique: procedural details and clinical outcomes.  Journal of Invasive Cardiology 13(12): 782-7; 2001.
  • Crocker I, Fox T, Carlier SG.  IVUS based dosimetry and treatment planning.  Journal of Invasive Cardiology  12(12): 643-8; 2000.
  • Lee E, Fox T, Crocker I.  Optimization of radiosurgery treatment planning via mixed integer programming.  Medical Physics 27(5):  995-1004; 2000.
  • Crocker I, Robinson K, Bonnan R, Fox T. Active centering is not important. Journal of Interventional Cardiology 12(4):  1-7; 1999.