Yang Jun
PhD in Biomedical Engineering- Medical Physicist
- Professor
Specialty: Radiation Oncology
Languages: English · Mandarin
Conditions Treated
- Lung Tumors
- Liver Tumors
- Pancreatic Tumors
- Intracranial Tumors
- Head and Neck Tumors
- Bulky Solid Tumors
- Metastatic Tumors
Procedures
- CyberKnife Radiosurgery
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS)
- Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT)
- CyberKnife Treatment Planning
Expertise
Professor Jun Yang is a medical physicist and CyberKnife specialist with more than 20 years of experience in stereotactic radiosurgery. He has been directly involved in approximately 6,000 CyberKnife treatment cases and previously oversaw medical-physics quality assurance and clinical research across 34 radiotherapy centers and 16 CyberKnife systems in the United States. His expertise covers treatment planning and quality control for lung, liver, pancreatic, intracranial and head-and-neck tumors, including bulky solid tumors and metastatic lesions. His participation in international radiosurgery practice and quality-control guidance supports rigorous, safety-focused CyberKnife treatment planning.
Experience
- Former Board Member and Chair, Physics Committee, The Radiosurgery Society (RSS)
- Contributor, AAPM Task Groups 135 and 277
- Member, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
- Member, American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)
Research & Publications
- Stereotactic central/core ablative radiation therapy: results of a phase I study of a novel strategy to treat bulky tumor Frontiers in Oncology, 2024.
- Dosimetric quality of HyperArc in boost radiotherapy for single glioblastoma: comparison with CyberKnife and manual VMAT Radiation Oncology, 2023.
- AAPM-RSS Medical Physics Practice Guideline 9.a. for SRS-SBRT Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 2017.
- Radiation shielding evaluation based on five years of data from a busy CyberKnife center Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 2014.
- A quality assurance procedure to evaluate cone-beam CT image center congruence with the radiation isocenter of a linear accelerator Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 2010.
- A robust Hough transform algorithm for determining the radiation centers of circular and rectangular fields with subpixel accuracy Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2009.
Locations
Foshan Fosun Chancheng Hospital
No. 3 Sanyou South Road, Shiwan, Chancheng District, Foshan, Guangdong Province, China Get directions