Academic Rank

Assistant Professor

Professional Qualifications

BSc, Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University
MSc, Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced
Institute of Science & Technology
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology

CCMP Certificate, Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine
Member, AAPM

Appointments

Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto
Medical Physicist, Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network

Academic & Clinical Interests

• Adaptive radiation therapy for gynecological cancers using image-guidance, intensity modulation and adaptive strategy
• Functional cone beam CT using dynamic contrast enhancement techniques

Current Research Projects

• Adaptive radiation therapy for cervix cancer
• Dynamic contrast enhanced CBCT
• Geometric calibration of cone beam CT system

Selected Publications

See current publications list at PubMed.
Lim K, Chan P, Dinniwell R, Fyles A, Haider M, Cho YB, Jaffray D, Manchul L.Levin W. et. al, Cervical Cancer Regression Measured Using Weekly Magnetic Resonance Imaging During Fractionated Radiotherapy: Radiobiologic Modeling and Correlation With Tumor Hypoxia, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys., 70: 126-33, 2008.

Chan P, Dinniwell R, Haider MA , Cho Y-B, Jaffray D, Lockwood G , Levin W , Manchul L , Fyles A , Milosevic M. Inter- and Intrafractional Tumor and Organ Movement in Patients with Cervical Cancer Undergoing Radiotherapy: A Cinematic-MRI Point-of-Interest Study. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, Dec 28, 2007. serial number 18164850 [on line publication].

Vandermeer A, Alasti H, Cho YB, Norrlinger B. Investigation of the dosimetric effect of respiratory motion using four-dimensional weighted radiotherapy, Phys. Med. Biol., 52: 1-22, 2007.

Alasti H, Cho YB, Vandermeer A, Abbas A, Norrlinger B, Shubbar S, and Bezjak A. A novel four dimentional radiotherapy method for lung cancer: imaging, treatment planning, and delivery. Physics in Medicine and Biologoy 51: 3251-67, 2006.

Cho YB, Moseley D, Siewerdesen J, Jaffray D. An accurate technique for complete geometric calibration of cone-beam computed tomography systems. Medical Physics, 32: 968-83, 2005.

Yeo IJ, Beiki-Ardakani A, Cho YB, Heydarian M, Zhang T, Islam M. EDR2 film dosimetry for IMRT verification using low-energy photon filters. Medical Physics, 31: 1960-3, 2004.

Cho YB, and Munro P. Kilovision: Thermal modelling of a kilovoltage x ray source integrated into a medical linear accelerator. Medical Physics, 29: 2101-8, 2002.

Cho YB and Gweon DG. Conditional Variance Estimation using Stochastic Learning Algorithm, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 7: 267-82, 1999.