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J. Adam M. Cunha, Ph.D.
Professor
Division of Physics
Department of Radiation Oncology
Meet Dr. Cunha
Dr. Cunha is a Professor in the UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology. And the Director of the Graduate Program in Medical Physics, a joint effort between Radiation Oncology and UC Berkeley’s Department of Nuclear Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. As a member of the BaBar collaboration, his thesis work explored subatomic particle interactions generated using the GeV-energy electron/positron linear accelerator at SLAC National Laboratory in Palo Alto, CA. Dr. Cunha specializes in all aspects of Brachytherapy including Optimization, Robotics, Electromagnetic (EM) Tracking, and 3D Printing applications.
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https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=25930801800 Recent Significant PublicationsNattagh K, Siauw T, Pouliot J, Hsu IC, Cunha JA., A training phantom for ultrasound-guided needle insertion and suturing. Brachytherapy. 2014 Jul-Aug;13(4):413-9. doi: 10.1016/j.brachy.2014.01.003. Epub 2014 Feb 12. Crehange G, Krishnamurthy D, Cunha JA, Pickett B, Kurhanewicz J, Hsu IC, Gottschalk AR, Shinohara K, Roach M 3rd, Pouliot J., Cold spot mapping inferred from MRI at time of failure predicts biopsy-proven local failure after permanent seed brachytherapy in prostate cancer patients: implications for focal salvage brachytherapy.Radiother Oncol. 2013 Nov;109(2):246-50. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.10.028. Epub 2013 Nov 11. Pinnaduwage DS, Cunha JA, Weinberg V, Krishnamurthy D, Nash M, Hsu IC, Pouliot J., A dosimetric evaluation of using a single treatment plan for multiple treatment fractions within a given applicator insertion in gynecologic brachytherapy. Brachytherapy. 2013 Sep-Oct;12(5):487-94. doi: 10.1016/j.brachy.2013.02.003. Epub 2013 Apr 11. Cunha JA, Pouliot J, Weinberg V, Wang-Chesebro A, Roach M 3rd, Hsu IC., 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. 2012 Sep-Oct;11(5):348-53. Reed G, Cunha JA, Noworolski S, Kurhanewicz J, Vigneron D, Hsu IC, Pouliot J., Interactive, multi-modality image registrations for combined MRI/MRSI-planned HDR prostate brachytherapy. J Contemp Brachytherapy. 2011 Mar 31;3(1):26-31. Siauw T, Cunha A, Atamtürk A, Hsu IC, Pouliot J, Goldberg K., IPIP: A new approach to inverse planning for HDR brachytherapy by directly optimizing dosimetric indices. Med Phys. 2011 Jul;38(7):4045-51. Krishnamurthy D, Weinberg V, Cunha JA, Hsu IC, Pouliot J., Comparison of high-dose rate prostate brachytherapy dose distributions with iridium-192, ytterbium-169, and thulium-170 sources. Brachytherapy. 2011 Nov;10(6):461-5. Cunha JA, Pickett B, Pouliot J., Inverse planning optimization for hybrid prostate permanent-seed implant brachytherapy plans using two source strengths. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2010 Jun 3;11(3):3096. Cunha JA, Hsu IC, Pouliot J, Roach Iii M, Shinohara K, Kurhanewicz J, Reed G, Stoianovici D., Toward adaptive stereotactic robotic brachytherapy for prostate cancer: demonstration of an adaptive workflow incorporating inverse planning and an MR stealth robot. Minim Invasive Ther Allied Technol. 2010 Aug;19(4):189-202. Foster W, Cunha JA, Hsu IC, Weinberg V, Krishnamurthy D, Pouliot J., Dosimetric impact of interfraction catheter movement in high-dose rate prostate brachytherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2011 May 1;80(1):85-90. Epub 2010 Jun 3. Cunha JA, Hsu IC, Pouliot J. Dosimetric equivalence of nonstandard HDR brachytherapy catheter patterns, Med Phys. 2009 Jan;36(1):233-9.
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