Benjamin Ziemer, PhD

Assistant Professor

Research Group Page: https://bpziemerlab.ucsf.edu/

I am a board certified medical physicis by the American Board of Radiology. I am licensed by the State of California to deliver Gamma Knife frame-based and ICON stereotactic radiosurgery and Cesium-131 brachytherapy brain implant surgeries in coordination with the Department of Neurosurgery. I think that clinical service is the core of the the triad of clinical-teaching-research mission of UCSF and assist the Radiation Oncolofy team in the delivery of high quality patient care.

Publications

Adverse radiation effect versus tumor progression following stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases: Implications of radiologic uncertainty.

Tungsten filled 3D printed lung blocks for total body irradiation.

Development and multi-institutional validation of a convolutional neural network to detect vertebral body mis-alignments in 2D x-ray setup images.

Quality Assurance for AI-Based Applications in Radiation Therapy.

Adverse radiation effect and freedom from progression following repeat stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases.

Resection with intraoperative cesium-131 brachytherapy as salvage therapy for recurrent brain tumors.

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy and High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Boost in Combination With Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer: A Single-Institution Propensity Score Matched Analysis.

Use of Receiver Operating Curve Analysis and Machine Learning With an Independent Dose Calculation System Reduces the Number of Physical Dose Measurements Required for Patient-Specific Quality Assurance.

Attention-Aware Discrimination for MR-to-CT Image Translation Using Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks.

Automated Closed- and Open-Loop Validation of Knowledge-Based Planning Routines Across Multiple Disease Sites.

Comprehensive Assessment of Coronary Artery Disease by Using First-Pass Analysis Dynamic CT Perfusion: Validation in a Swine Model.

Heuristic knowledge-based planning for single-isocenter stereotactic radiosurgery to multiple brain metastases.