Our 2007 Web Christmas Card is now available for you to look through. Happy 2008!

Walter G. O'Dell, PhD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Radiation Oncology
and Biomedical Engineering
at the University of Rochester
601 Elmwood Ave., Box 647
Rochester, NY 14642-8647
(585) 275-9996(Office)
(585) 275-1531(Fax)
wodell@rochester.edu


Research Pages
CV

Selected Recent Publications & Conference Abstracts please visit my on-line CV for links to additional publications

ISMRM 2007 Evidence that Diffusion Tensor Imaging (Tractography) Predicts the Natural History of Regional Recurrence in Patients Irradiated Conformally for Primary Brain Tumors (2.6Mb pdf)
SPIE Medical Imaging 2007 Non-invasive Quantification of the Time Course of Lung Radiation
Dose Response in Humans (96K pdf)
AAPM2006 Patterns of Brain Tumor Recurrence Predicted From DTI Tractography (786K pdf -- slideshow)
IEEE RO-MAN2005 High-order 3D FEM of Prostate Needle Insertion Forces (188K pdf)
AAPM2005 Automatic Detection and volume determination of metastatic brain tumors from MRI scans (819K pdf)
AAPM2005 Evaluation of Computer Aided Diagnosis on Thin-Slice Pulmonary CT Images (264K pdf)
* Modeling liver motion and deformation during the respiratory cycle
using intensity-based free-form registration of gated MR images (484M pdf)
(Medical Physics, (Mar) 31:427-432, 2004)
* Optimal marker placement in photogrammetry patient positioning system(html)
(Medical Physics (Feb) 30(2):103-110, 2003)
* Dose broadening due to target position variability during fractionated breath-held RT
(Medical Physics, Vol. 29, No. 7, pp. 1430–1437, July 2002)
AAPM2004 Detection of Juxta-plural Lung Nodules .. (812K pdf)
AAPM2004 Prostate 3D FEM for Brachytherapy .. (304K pdf)
AAPM2004 FEM-based Non-rigid Image Registration .. (1.4M pdf)
AAPM2004 Sombrero Dose Distrbution for Tumor Motion Correction .. (791K pdf)

RUBI/REU Summer Student Projects
  D'vone Jackson Creation of 3D lung phantom 2006
  Auresa Thomas 2D B-spline Image Registration(1.2M pdf) 2005
  Jesse VictorBrain Tumor Growth Quantification 2004
  Ntungwe Sobe Brain Tumor Early Detection Algorithm(464K pdf) 2004
  Doug Clark Experimental Testing of Radiation Dose to Mobile Tumors (377K pdf) 2003
  Andrea DeNunzio Analysis of 3D Tumor Detection Methods (328K pdf) 2003
  Paul Murdock Radiation Effects on Lung Tissue (150K jpg) 2002
  Deepti Narla Lung Tissue Effects on Radiation (420K jpg) 2002
  Dave Reynolds Dose perturbations from tumor motion 2001

Student Info

BME502 Foundations web page
My Advice to BME Applicants
Advice for those Seeking a Career in Cancer Research
BME Grad Lab Class Notes
      woImageJ API 10/24/02
      Running woImageJ on your computer Java/ImageJ Notes


Departmental Activities
BME IM SoftBall: BoMbErS           2005 League Champions!
RadOnc IM SoftBall: Rad Raiders
IM Indoor Soccer: Biohazards
Med Center VolleyBall: Jammin'



California Dreamin'