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Huiming Dong, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division of Physics
Department of Radiation Oncology
Adventurer, Inquirer
Meet Dr. Dong
I am inspired by my colleagues, trainees, and patients, and privileged to pursue research breakthroughs alongside some of the most talented people at UCSF, all with a shared goal of advancing cancer treatment for every patient.
Dr. Huiming Dong is an assistant professor of clinical radiation oncology at UCSF. He has a strong research interest in developing and applying advanced MRI techniques to improve radiotherapy outcomes for all patients. Particularly, he is passionate about exploring novel MRI-derived biomarkers that could enable personalized function-driven radiotherapy.
Dr. Dong completed his medical physics residency training at UCLA where he gained extensive experience in a variety of state-of-the-art treatment techniques including both x-ray/CT-guided and MR-guided radiotherapy as well as online adaptive radiotherapy. He also served as a co-investigator on the ILLUSION trial investigating motion management strategies for prostate SBRT using Varian kV triggered imaging and HyperSight CBCT. Dr. Dong earned his PhD from The Ohio State University where he developed aortic magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) to assess aneurysm stiffness and improve risk stratification for patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms. Following his doctoral studies, he pursued post-doctoral training at UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging where he was awarded a Siemens seed grant to explore novel applications of ferumoxytol on low-field MRI at 0.55T.
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Dong H, Pham J, Lauria M, Atienza C, Sloman B, Barry P, Davis J, Saracen M, Kishan A, Raldow A, Qi X, Hyer D, Lamb J. MR-Guided Radiation Therapy for Prostate and Pancreas Cancer Treatment: A Dosimetric Study Across Two Major MR-Linac Platforms. Cancers. 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17162708. Courtney PT, Dong, H, Lao Y, Pham J, Lauria M, Chu F, Krupien A, Valle L, Low, D, Lamb J, Steinberg M, Qi, X, Cao M, Kishan A. Dosimetric Comparison of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Versus Reduced Margin Computed Tomography Guided Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer: Post Hoc Analysis of a Phase 3 Trial. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2025.05.066. Dong H, Leach J, Kao E, Zhou A, Chitiboi T, Ballweber M, Gasper W, Hope M, Saloner D, Mitsouras D. Measurement of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Strain using MR Deformable Image Registration: Accuracy and Relationship to Recent Aneurysm Progression. Investigative Radiology. 2024. doi:10.1097/RLI.1035. Dong H, Haraldsson H, Leach J, Zhou A, Ballweber M, Zhu C, Xuan Y, Wang Z, Hope W, Epstein F, Ge L, Saloner D, Tseng E, Mitsouras D. In Vivo Quantification of Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Wall Stretch Using MRI: Relationship to Repair Threshold Diameter and Ex Vivo Wall Failure Behavior. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4066430. Dong H, Raterman B, White R, Starr J, Vacarro M, Haurani M, Go M, Eisner M, Brock G, Kolipaka, A. MR Elastography of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Patients: Relationship to Aneurysmal Events. Radiology. 2022;304(3):721-729. doi: 10.1148/radiol.212323. Dong H, Ahmad R, Miller R, Kolipaka A. MR Elastography Inversion by Compressive Recovery. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 2021. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ac145a. Dong H, Russell D, Litsky A, Mo X, Joseph M, White RD, Kolipaka A. In-Vivo Aortic MR Elastography in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A Validation in an Animal Model. Investigative Radiology. 2020. doi: 10.1097/RLI.660. Dong H, Jin N, Kannengiesser S, Raterman B, White R, Kolipaka A. Cardiac-Gated Spin-Echo EPI MR Elastography for Estimating Stiffness of the Abdominal Aorta. NMR Biomed. 2020. doi: 10.1002/nbm.4420. Dong H, White RD, Kolipaka A. Advances and Future Direction of Magnetic Resonance Elastography. Top Magn Reson Imaging. 2018 Oct;27(5):363-384. doi: 10.1097/RMR.179. Dong H, Mazumder R, Illapani VSP, Mo X, White RD, Kolipaka A. In vivo quantification of aortic stiffness using MR elastography in hypertensive porcine model. Magn Reson Med. 2017. doi: 10.1002/mrm.26601. Dong H, Ahmad R, Kolipaka A. Systems and Methods for Magnetic Resonance Elastography with Unconstrained Optimization Inversion (US Patent: US 11779310). Full List on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pSAxiywAAAAJ&hl=en
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