James M Balter, PhD

Dr. Balter has over 30 years of research experience in development and optimal use of novel imaging solutions to address Radiation Oncology problems. His research has focused on a few specific areas:

Dynamic human modeling
Optimizing integration of MRI in Radiation Oncology, including development of synthetic CT models of patients to support MRI-only Radiation Therapy Simulation and investigations of sparsity for biological, morphological and motion modeling of humans from MR signals
Advancing precise Image-Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT)
Studying the complexity of therapeutic decisions and the sparsity of information sufficient to justify decisions throughout the radiotherapy process
Improving and evaluating the impact of alignment uncertainty on radiation therapy and related decisions
Projection-to-volume modeling of pose, configuration, and movement
Dr. Balter participates as an active member of the Functional Imaging Group and has industrial collaborations with Siemens Healthineers.

Areas of intrest:
Dynamic Human Modeling
Imaging in Radiation Therapy
Optimizing use of MRI in Radiation Therapy
Stereotactic treatment, Image alignment and uncertainty

Clinical Interest:
Sterotactic body radiation therapy
Image-guided radiation therapy