James M Balter, PhD
Professor
Radiation Oncology - Physics
330 E. Liberty
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
[email protected]

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James M Balter, PhD
Professor
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    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.

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      Rogel Cancer Center
    Research Overview

    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

    Recent Publications See All Publications
    • Journal Article
      Phase II Trial Assessing Toxicity of Personalized Response-Based Radiation Treatment in Patients with Locally Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.
      Edwards DM, Schonewolf CA, Rice JD, Schipper M, Haken RKT, Matuszak M, Balter J, Jarema D, Arenberg DA, Piert M, Qin A, Kalemkerian GP, Schneider BJ, Ramnath N, Chapman CH, Elliott DA, Lawrence TS, Hearn J, Hayman JA, Jolly S. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2024 Jul 4; DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2024.06.018
      PMID: 38971385
    • Journal Article
      Volumetric MRI with sparse sampling for MR-guided 3D motion tracking via sparse prior-augmented implicit neural representation learning.
      Liu L, Shen L, Johansson A, Balter JM, Cao Y, Vitzthum L, Xing L. Med Phys, 2024 Apr; 51 (4): 2526 - 2537. DOI:10.1002/mp.16845
      PMID: 38014764
    • Journal Article
      In Vivo Microstructure Imaging in Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Using the Random Walk With Barriers Model.
      Cao Y, Davarani SN, You D, Feiweier T, Casper K, Balis U, Udager A, Balter J, Mierzwa M. J Magn Reson Imaging, 2024 Mar; 59 (3): 929 - 938. DOI:10.1002/jmri.28831
      PMID: 37366349
    • Journal Article
      Extended nnU-Net for Brain Metastasis Detection and Segmentation in Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging With a Large Multi-Institutional Data Set.
      Yoo Y, Gibson E, Zhao G, Re TJ, Parmar H, Das J, Wang H, Kim MM, Shen C, Lee Y, Kondziolka D, Ibrahim M, Lian J, Jain R, Zhu T, Comaniciu D, Balter JM, Cao Y. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2024 Jul 25; DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2024.07.2318
      PMID: 39059508
    • Journal Article
      Does Vascular Collapse Occur After Treatment of Hepatocellular Cancer With Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy?
      Lawrence TS, Aryal MP, Evans JR, Cuneo KC, Chang DT, Schipper MJ, Zhang Y, Balter JM, Haken RKT, Cao Y. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2023 Dec 1; 117 (5): 1236 - 1240. DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.078
      PMID: 37414260
    • Journal Article
      Real Time Volumetric MRI for MR-Guided 3D Motion Tracking via Sparse Prior-Augmented Neural Representation Learning
      Liu L, Shen L, Johansson A, Cao Y, Balter J, Vitzthum L, Xing L. International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics, 2023 Oct; 117 (2): s47 - s48. DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.327
    • Journal Article
      Real-time prediction of stomach motions based upon gastric contraction and breathing models.
      Zhang Y, Cao Y, Kashani R, Lawrence TS, Balter JM. Phys Med Biol, 2022 Dec 16; 68 (1): DOI:10.1088/1361-6560/ac9660
      PMID: 36174550
    • Journal Article
      Gender-Based Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in Medical Physics.
      Paradis KC, Ryan KA, Covington EL, Schmid S, Simiele SJ, Chapman CH, Castillo R, Moran JM, Matuszak MM, Bott-Kothari T, Balter JM, Jagsi R. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2023 Jun 1; 116 (2): 314 - 327. DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.10.004
      PMID: 36252781