Bruce Faddegon, PhD

University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, B.Sc., 1977, Physics (honors)
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, M.Sc., 1983, Physics (radiobiology)
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Ph.D., 1990, Physics (radiotherapy)

• 1977-80
  Geophysicist, Amoco Canada, Calgary, Alberta
• 1982-84
  Sessional Lecturer and Laboratory Instructor, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
• 1984-86
  Medical Physics Resident, Ottawa Regional Cancer Center, Ottawa, Ontario
• 1990-92
  Research Associate, Ionizing Radiation Standards, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
• 1992-93
  Medical Physicist, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC
• 1994-98
  Medical Physicist, Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Center, Toronto, Ontario
• 1994-2000
  Assistant Member, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
• 1998-2000
  Senior Medical Physicist, Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Center, Ontario
• 2000-2010
  Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco
• 2010-present
  Professor in Residence, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco

• 1980
  National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) scholarship for M.Sc. studies
• 1982
  NSERC scholarship for Ph.D. studies - declined
• 1986
  Ontario Cancer Foundation fellowship for Ph.D. studies
• 1988
  Ontario Graduate Scholarship for Ph.D. studies
• 1989
  American Association Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Young Investigator's Award, Second Prize
• 1991
  Farrington Daniels Award (AAPM)
• 1992
  Runner-up to Sylvia Fedoruk Prize (Canadian Organization of Medical Physics)
• 1996
  Runner-up to Sylvia Fedoruk Prize (Canadian Organization of Medical Physics)
• 2007
  Appointed Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine

• The Automated Low Dose Assay System for Survival Measurements of Mammalian Cells. In Vitro. J. of Tissue Culture Methods 8(3):103 (1983); B. Palcic, B.A. Faddegon, B. Jaggi, and L. D. Skarsgard.
• The Effect of Misonidazole as a Hypoxic Radiosensitizer at Low Dose. Radiation Research 100(2):340 (1984); B. Palcic, B.A. Faddegon, and L. D. Skarsgard.
• Computer Aided Design and Verification of Megavoltage Tissue Compensators for Oblique Beams. Medical Physics, 15(5):757 (1988); B.A. Faddegon and P. M. Pfalzner.
• Pile-up Corrections in Pulsed-Beam Spectroscopy. Nucl. Inst. Meth., B51:431 (1990); B.A. Faddegon.
• Forward-Directed Bremsstrahlung of 10-30 MeV Electrons Incident on Thick Targets of Al and Pb. Medical Physics, 17(5):773 (1990); B.A. Faddegon, C. K. Ross, and D. W. O. Rogers.
• Precision Response-Function Estimation, Energy Calibration, and Unfolding of Spectra Measured With a Large NaI Detector. Nucl. Inst. Meth., A301:138 (1991); B.A. Faddegon, L. Van der Zwan, D. W. O. Rogers, and C. K. Ross.
• Angular Distributions of Bremsstrahlung from 15 MeV Electrons Incident on Thick Targets of Be, Al and Pb. Med Phys 18(4):727 (1991); B.A. Faddegon, C. K. Ross, and D. W. O. Rogers.
• Re-evaluation of the Total Stopping Power of 5.3 MeV Electrons in Polystyrene. Phys. Med. Biol. 37(4):969 (1992); D. W. O. Rogers and B.A. Faddegon.
• Measurement of Collision Stopping Powers of Graphite, Aluminum and Copper for 10 and 20 MeV Electrons. Phys. Med. Biol. 37(7):1561 (1992); B.A. Faddegon, C. K. Ross, and D. W. O. Rogers.
• Comparisons of Thick-target Bremsstrahlung Calculated with EGS and ITS. Nucl. Inst. Meth. A327:556 (1993); B.A. Faddegon and D. W. O. Rogers.
• BEAM: A Monte Carlo code to simulate radiotherapy treatment units. Med. Phys. 22(5):503 (1995); D. W. O. Rogers, B.A. Faddegon, G. X. Ding, C.-M. Ma, J. We, and T. R. Mackie.
• Calculation of x-ray spectra for radiosurgical beams. Med. Phys. 22(10):1657 (1995); K. Sixel and B.A. Faddegon.
• Monte Carlo based phase-space-evolution for electron dose calculation. Med. Phys. 24(2):177 (1997); D. Scora and B.A. Faddegon.
• Accurate characterization of Monte Carlo calculated electron beams for radiotherapy. Med. Phys. 24(3):401 (1997); C.-M. Ma, B.A. Faddegon, D. W. O. Rogers, and T. R. Mackie.
• Clinical considerations of Monte Carlo for electron radiotherapy treatment planning. Rad. Phys. and Chem. 53(3):217-227 (1998); B.A. Faddegon, J. Balogh, R. Mackenzie, and D. Scora.
• Megavoltage imaging with low Z targets: Implementation and characterization of an investigational system. Med. Phys. 25(10): 1910-1918 (1998); O. Z. Ostapiak, P. F. O'Brien, B.A. Faddegon.
• The flattened area of Siemens linear accelerator x-ray fields. Med. Phys. 26(2):220-228, 1999; B.A. Faddegon, P. F. O'Brien, D. L. D. Mason.
• Electron spectra derived from depth dose distributions. Med. Phys. 27(3):514-526, July, 2000; B.A. Faddegon, I. Blevis.
• Description and dosimetric verification of the PEREGRINE Monte Carlo dose calculation system for photon beams incident on a water phantom. Med. Phys. 28(7):1322-1337, 2001; C.L. Hartmann-Siantar, R.S. Walling, T.P. Daly, B. Faddegon, N. Albright, P. Bergstrom, A.F. Bielajew, C. Chuang, D. Garrett, R.K.House, D. Knapp, D.J. Wieczorek and L.J. Verhey.
• Comparison of beam characteristics of a gold x-ray target and a tungsten replacement target. Med. Phys. 31(1):91, 2004; B. Faddegon, B. Egley, T. Steinberg.
• Dosimetry of a prototype retractable eMLC for fixed-beam electron therapy. Med Phys. 31:443, 2004; K.R. Hogstrom, R. A. Boyd, J. A. Antolak, M. M. Svatos, B. A. Faddegon, and J. G. Rosenman.
• A Comparison of Monte Carlo and Fermi-Eyges-Hogstrom Estimates of Heart and Lung Dose from Breast Electron Boost Treatment. Int. J. Onc. Biol. Phys., Volume 61(2):309-317, 2005; J. Coleman, Joy, C. Park, J.E. VillarrealBarajas, P. Petti, B. Faddegon.
• Sensitivity of large-field electron beams to variations in a Monte Carlo accelerator model. Phys. Med. Biol. 50 (2005) 769-778; E. Schreiber, B.A. Faddegon.
• Monte Carlo simulation of large electron fields. Phys. Med. Biol. 50 (2005) 741-753; B.A. Faddegon, E. Schreiber, X. Ding.
• Final Aperture Superposition Technique applied to fast calculation of electron output factors and depth dose curves. Med. Phys. 32:3286, 2005; B.A.Faddegon, J.E.Villarreal-Barajas.
• A pulse-rate dependence of dose per monitor unit and its significant effect on wedged-shaped fields delivered with variable dose rate and a moving jaw, Med. Phys., 33:3063-3065, 2006. B.A. Faddegon, E Garde
• Intraoperative radiation therapy using mobile electron linear accelerators: Report of AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group No. 72, Med. Phys., 33(5):1476-1489, 2006; AS Beddar, PJ Biggs, S Chang, GA Ezzell, BA Faddegon, FW Hensley, MD Mills
• Response of intracerebral human glioblastoma xenografts to multi-fraction radiation exposures, Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. Sep 1;66(1):263-70, 2006; Tomoko Ozawa, Bruce A Faddegon, Lily J Hu, Andrew W Bollen, MD, Kathleen R Lamborn, Dennis F Deen
• Report of the AAPM Task Group No. 105: Issues associated with clinical implementation of Monte Carlo-based photon and electron external beam treatment planning, Med. Phys. 34:4818-4853, 2007; Indrin J. Chetty Bruce Curran, Joanna E. Cygler, John J. DeMarco, Gary Ezzell, Bruce A. Faddegon, Iwan Kawrakow, Paul J. Keall, Helen Liu, Charlie Ma, D. W. O. Rogers, Jan Seuntjens, Daryoush Sheikh-Bagheri, Jeffrey V. Siebers
• Monte Carlo simulation of large electron fields, Phys. Med. Biol. 53:1497-1510, 2008. August, 2007; Bruce A Faddegon, Joseph Perl and Makoto Asai Prototyping a large field size IORT applicator for a mobile linear accelerator, Phys. Med. Biol. 53:2089-2102, 2008. Rogier W J Janssen, Bruce A Faddegon and Wim J F Dries
• Focused beam-stop array for the measurement of scatter in megavoltage portal and cone beam CT imaging, Med Phys 35(6):2452-2462, 2008. J Maltz, B Gangadharan , M Vidal, A Paidi , S Bose, B Faddegon, M Aubin , O Morin , J Pouliot , Z Zheng, M Svatos , A Bani-Hashemi
• Algorithm for X-ray scatter, beam-hardening and beam profile correction in diagnostic (kV) and treatment (MV) cone beam CT, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 27(12): 1791-1810, 2008; Jonathan S. Maltz, Bijumon Gangadharan, Dimitre H. Hristov, Bruce A. Faddegon, Ajay Paidi, Supratik Bose, and Ali R. Bani-Hashemi
• Measurement of multiple scattering of 13 and 20 MeV electrons by thin foils, Med. Phys. 35(9): 4121-4131, 2008; C Ross, M McEwen , A McDonald , C Cojocaru , B Faddegon,
• Benchmarking of Monte Carlo simulation of bremsstrahlung from thick targets at radiotherapy energies, Med. Phys. 35(10):4308-4317, 2008; Bruce A Faddegon, Makoto Asai, Joseph Perl, Carl Ross, Josep Sempau, Jane Tinslay, and Francesc Salvat
• Low Dose Megavoltage Cone Beam CT with an Unflattened 4 MV Beam From a Carbon Target, Med. Phys. 35(12):5777-5786, 2008; Bruce Faddegon, Vincent Wu , Jean Pouliot , Bijumon Gangadharan , and Ali Bani-Hashemi
• Determination of electron source parameters at the exit window for clinical megavoltage x-ray beams, Med. Phys. 36(3):698-707, 2009; Daren Sawkey and Bruce Faddegon
• Validation of the Final Aperture Superposition Technique to calculate electron output factors and depth dose curves, Med. Phys. 36:3397, 2009; Josephine Chen, Jeffrey Irion, Bruce Faddegon
• Clinical Implementation of 4 MV X-ray Cone Beam CT from a Graphite Target, (Translated into Japanese), Japanese Journal of Radiological Technology 65(6):851-855, 2009; Bruce A Faddegon, Daren Sawkey, Bijumon Gangadharan, and Ali Bani-Hashemi..
• Image quality and dosimetric property of an investigational low dose Imaging Beam Line Mega-Voltage Cone-Beam CT, Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 10(3):37-48, 2009; C. Beltran, R. Lukose, B. A. Faddegon, and A. Bani-Hashemi
• Treatment head disassembly to improve the accuracy of large electron field simulation, Med Phys 36(10):4577-91, 2009; Bruce A Faddegon, Daren Sawkey, Tuathan O'Shea, Malcolm McEwen, and Carl Ross
• Accuracy of EGSnrc, Geant4 and PENELOPE Monte Carlo systems for simulation of electron scatter in external beam radiotherapy, Phys. Med. Biol. 54:6151-6163, 2009; Bruce A Faddegon, Iwan Kawrakow, Yuri Kubyshin, Joseph Perl, Josep Sempau, and Laszlo Urban
• Fast, accurate photon beam accelerator modeling using BEAMnrc and VMC++: A systematic investigation of efficiency enhancing methods and cross-section data, Med. Phys. 36(12):5451-66, 2009; Margarida Fragoso, Iwan Kawrakow, Bruce A. Faddegon, Timothy D. Solberg, Indrin J. Chetty
• Simulation of large x-ray fields using independently measured source and geometry details, Med. Phys. 36(12): 5622-32, 2009; Daren Sawkey and Bruce A Faddegon
• A diamond target for megavoltage cone-beam CT, Med. Phys. 37(3):1246-53, 2010; D. Sawkey, M. Lu, O. Morin, M. Aubin, S. Yom, A. Gottschalk, A. Bani-Hashemi, B.A. Faddegon
• Comparison of patient megavoltage cone beam CT images acquired with an unflattened beam from a carbon target and a flattened treatment beam, Med. Phys. 37(4): 1737-1741, 2010; B. A. Faddegon, M. Aubin, A. Bani-hashemi, B. Gangadharan, A. R. Gottschalk, O. Morin, V. Wu and S. S. Yom
• Monte Carlo commissioning of clinical electron beams using large field measurements, Phys. Med. Biol. 55:4083-4105, 2010; T. P. O'Shea, D. L. Sawkey, M. J. Foley, B. A. Faddegon