Xie George Xu is a professor with the Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Stephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...

. After receiving a PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

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. in Nuclear Engineering

Nuclear engineering

Nuclear engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the application of the breakdown as well as the fusion of atomic nuclei and/or the application of other sub-atomic physics, based on the principles of nuclear physics...

 from Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

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, he joined RPI in 1995, where he soon received the NSF

National Science Foundation

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 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 1999. He is currently a Full Professor of Nuclear Engineering

Nuclear engineering

Nuclear engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the application of the breakdown as well as the fusion of atomic nuclei and/or the application of other sub-atomic physics, based on the principles of nuclear physics...

 and Engineering Physics

Engineering physics

Engineering physics is the study of the combined disciplines of physics, engineering and mathematics in order to develop an understanding of the interrelationships of these three disciplines. Fundamental physics is combined with problem solving and engineering skills, which then has broad...

.

Xu heads the Rensselaer Radiation Measurement and Dosimetry Group (RRDMG) at RPI

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Stephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...

, and is most well known for his work in computerized simulation

Computer simulation

A computer simulation, a computer model, or a computational model is a computer program, or network of computers, that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system...

 of the effect of radiation

Radiation

In physics, radiation is a process in which energetic particles or energetic waves travel through a medium or space. There are two distinct types of radiation; ionizing and non-ionizing...

 on the human body

Human body

The human body is the entire structure of a human organism, and consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs.By the time the human reaches adulthood, the body consists of close to 100 trillion cells, the basic unit of life...

, particularly the development of computational human phantom

Computational human phantom

Computational human phantoms are models of the human body used in computerized analysis. Since the 1960s, the radiological science community has developed and applied these models for ionizing radiation dosimetry studies. These models have become increasingly accurate with respect to the internal...

 models. He is also the founding director of the Center for Engineering-Based Patient Modeling.

Book Chapters and Invited Journal Reviews

• Xu, XG (editor). Handbook of Anatomical Models for Radiation Dosimetry Taylor & Francis
  Taylor & Francis
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  , 2009.

• Xu XG, Bednarz B. Paganetti H. A Review of Dosimetry Studies on External-Beam Radiation Treatment with Respect to Second Cancer Induction. Phys. Med. Biol.
  Physics in Medicine and Biology
  Physics in Medicine and Biology is a peer reviewed journal concerned with the application of theoretical and practical physics to medicine, physiology and biology. The first issue was published in July 1956....
  
   53: R193-R241. 2008.

• Zaidi H, Xu XG. "Computational Anthropomorphic Models of the Human Anatomy: The Path to Realistic Monte Carlo Modeling in Radiological Sciences" in Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
  Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
  The Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering is an academic journal started by Martin Yarmush in an effort to document cutting edge research in the areas of molecular, cellular, and bioengineering.The journal is published by the nonprofit Annual Reviews....
  
  , Vol. 9, 471-500, 2007.

• Xu XG. "Chapter 9. Modeling of Human Anatomy for Radiation Dosimetry: An Example of the VIP-Man Model" In “Applied Modeling and Computations in Nuclear Science". Semkow et al. Eds., Oxford University Press
  Oxford University Press
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  , 2006.

Recent Invited Talks

• “Biomedical Physics Research at Rensselaer: An Engineering Approach"
  • Keynote presentation, UCLA Biomedical Physics Graduate Program Annual Colloquium, May 9, 2008.
• "Two-dosimeter Algorithms for the Assessment of Effective Dose Equivalent"
  • Plenary presentation, The 41st Annual National Conference on Radiation Control: Advancing Radiation Protection in the 21st Century, Hyatt Regency, Columbus, Ohio, May 18–21, 2009.
• “Recent Progress on Computational Phantoms and Applications to Imaging and Therapy"
  • Seminar, Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 8-9am, January 7, 2010.
• "Medical Physics Research at RPI – A Journey in Search of the Next Big Thing"
  • Seminar, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, January 12, 2010.
• "Trends in Radiation Protection Dosimetry: The New ICRP-103 Algorithms and Computational Phantoms"
  • Plenary presentation, 2010 American Nuclear Society, Joint RPSD, IRD & BMD International Topical Meeting, Palace Station Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV, April 19–23, 2010.
• "New, Realistic Models of the Adult Female in Pregnancy for Use in Dose Assessment"
  • Invited presentation, Continuous Education Course “New Internal Dose Models – Evaluation and Impact” Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 5–9, 2010.
• "Software Tools for PET and CT Dose Calculations"
  • Invited presentation, Continuous Education Course “Dose Estimation and Reduction in PET/CT Imaging” Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 5–9, 2010.
• "3D/4D Human Modeling and Monte Carlo Dose Calculation for Radiation Protection, Imaging and Radiotherapy"
  • Plenary presentation, The Joint International Conference of the 7th Supercomputing in Nuclear Application and the 3rd Monte Carlo (SNA + MC2010), Tokyo, Japan, October 17–21, 2010.