About

Nguyen Phuong Dang is a Medical Physics Resident at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California. He received his Ph.D. in High Energy Physics from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and his Certificate in Medical Physics from the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Dang's interested in developing innovative software solutions and artificial intelligence applications for clinical radiation oncology workflows. His clinical expertise encompasses machine and patient quality assurances, treatment planning with Eclipse, and advanced Monte Carlo simulations for various radiotherapy devices including linear accelerators and gamma knife systems.

Education

Therapeutic Medical Physics Residency
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Southern California
2024 – now | California, US
Certificate Program in Medical Physics
Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin
2022 – 2023 | Wisconsin, US
Ph.D. in High Energy Physics
Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg
2011 – 2016 | Freiburg, Germany
M.Sc. in Nuclear Physics
Department of Nuclear Physics, University of Science HCMC
2007 – 2010 | Vietnam
B.Sc. in Nuclear Physics
Department of Nuclear Physics, University of Science HCMC
2002 – 2006 | Vietnam

Membership & Certification

Membership
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
since 2021
Certification
American Board of Radiology - Passed ABR Part 1
2023

Professional Experience

Postdoc Fellow
Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin
2021 - 2023 | Milwaukee, WI
  • Deep learning based automatic contour quality assurance for auto-segmentation of abdominal organs
  • Automated brain metastasis detection and segmentation using deep-learning method
Research Associate
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Virginia
2019 - 2021 | Charlottesville, VA
  • Real-time treatment delivery verification and root cause error analysis via cine transmission measurements with an EPID
Research Associate
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Louisville
2017 - 2019 | Louisville, KY
  • Measurements of the Higgs-boson production and decay at the LHC
Teaching Assistant
University of Freiburg
2011 – 2015 | Freiburg, Germany
  • Advanced Physics Lab I & II
  • Experimental Physics I, II & III

Clinical Skills

Treatment Techniques

  • External: 2D/3D, IMRT/VMAT, IGRT (with CBCT/OBI, 4DCT), BgRT, SBRT/SRS
  • Brachytherapy: HDR (GYN, Cylinder, Prostate), Eye Plaque, GammaTile
  • Other Special Procedures: TBI, TSEI

Projects

  • Commissioning Reflexion X1 machine at USC Newport Beach Oncology Clinic Center
  • Commissioning Reflexion X1 machine at Pasadena Medical Office Building
  • Commissioning Varian Bravos system at USC Norris Cancer Hospital
  • Radiation safety survey at USC Newport Beach Oncology Clinic Center

Machines & Equipments

  • External Treatment: Varian (Trilogy, TrueBeam, ProBeam), Elekta (Infinity, Versa HD), Reflexion (X1)
  • Brachytherapy: Varian (VariSource iX, Bravos)
  • CT Scanners: Siemens (SOMATOM), Philips (Brilliance)
  • QA Devices: IC Profiler, MapCheck, MatriXX, DailyQA, PTW Watertanks, ArcCheck, EPID, CatPhan, Gafchromic film
  • In-vivo: MOSFET, OSLD, TLD, Gafchromic film

Clinical Software

  • Oncology Information: Aria, Mosaiq
  • Treatment Planning: Eclipse, Monaco, BrachyVision
  • Imaging: Velocity, MIM

Other Equipments

  • Particle detectors: ionization and wire chambers, HPGe, scintillators
  • Hardwares: NIM modules

Computing Skills

Programming

  • Languages: C++/C#, Python, Fortran, Matlab, Mathematica
  • Database: XML, JSON, SQL
  • Version Control: GIT, SVN

Computing

  • Simulation: MCNP, GEANT4
  • Distributed computing: MPI, OpenMP, WLCG

Web Development

  • Languagues: HTML, CSS, Javascript
  • Libraries: Flask

Machine & Deep Learning

  • Libraries: Tensorflow, PyTorch
  • Models: CNN, U-net, V-net, decision tree

Radiation Oncology

Spot-Scanning Confocal Photon Beams for Hypofractionated Brain Radiosurgery
Ma L, Luan S, Dang NP, Ziemer B, Braunstein S, McDermott M, Yu C, Zada G, Chang EL
Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment (2025)
Radiation Dose Units: How We Got Here, Do They Serve the Purposes They are Intended to?
Mateen M, Olshanoski K, Dang NP, Endo S, Rangacharyulu C
Dose Response 22 (2024)
Deep Learning Based Automatic Contour Refinement for Inaccurate Auto-segmentation in MR-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy
Ding J, Zhang Y, Amjad A, Sarosiek C, Dang NP, Zarenia M, Li XA
Phys Med Biol 68 (2023)
Collimator design for gamma-ray cascade angular correlations in medical imaging
Olshanoski K, Nkuba L, Dang NP, Fukuchi T, Kanda H, Lugendo IJ, Vijay Sai K, Ranagacharyulu C
JINST 18 (2023)
Calculating the Dosimetry Distribution of Leksell Gamma Knife in Phantom Zubal Head by Using MCNP5
My DTK, Phuong DN, Loan TTH, Van Nhon M
IFMBE Proceedings 27 (2010)

HEP and Nuclear Physics

Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of the Higgs boson in 13 TeV collisions with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
Phys.Lett.B 800 (2020)
Full spectrum analysis with the non-negative least square constraint for laboratory HPGe gamma spectrometry
Man M.T., Ba V.N., My D.T.T., Phuong D.N., Loan T.T.H., Huy N.Q.
J Radioanal Nucl Chem 322 (2019)
Search for heavy resonances decaying into WW in the evuv final state in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
Eur.Phys.J.C 78 (2018)
Measurement of the W+W− production cross section in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
ATLAS Collaboration
Phys.Lett.B 773 (2017)
Performance of algorithms that reconstruct missing transverse momentum in √s = 8 TeV proton–proton collisions in the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
Eur.Phys.J.C 77 (2017)
Study on the characteristics of X-ray spectra in imaging diagnosis using Monte Carlo simulations
Khanh AT, Loan THT, Nhon VM, Phuong ND, Dung TTV
J. Korean Phys. Soc. 69 1168–1174 (2016)
Observation and measurement of Higgs boson decays to WW(*) with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
Phys. Rev.D 92 (2015)

Clinical Projects

TLD Glow-Curve Deconvolution

A web-based application for TLD glow-curve deconvolution analysis and processing.

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QA Device Reader

A tool to read and analyze outputs from QA device softwares, such as IC profiler, MapCheck, etc. (Under development)

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DVH Analysis

A website to read RT plan and dose, calculate DVH, constrain checks, radiobiological model values (e.g. TCP, NTCP,...) (Under development)

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DICOM Augmentation Tool

A tool to augment DICOM image and contour datasets for machine learning applications in medical imaging.

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Contact

Email: dangngph@gmail.com
Phone: +1-502-650-6387
Institution: Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Southern California
1441 Eastlake Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089