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Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology

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Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology

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PhD, Bioengineering, Rice University
Medical Physics Residency, Rush University Medical Center
- Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT)
- Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT)
- Brachytherapy (HDR and LDR optimization, dosimetric comparisons)
- Radiosurgery and dose verification methods
- Compton scatter imaging and imaging biomarkers
- Radiation-induced skin toxicity and thermal imaging
- Computational modeling and finite element analysis in medical applications
- Treatment planning system validation and QA metrics (e.g., ArcCHECK, Tomotherapy)
Alistair Templeton, PhD, DABR is a board-certified medical physicist with extensive experience in radiation oncology and clinical medical physics. He completed his PhD in Bioengineering at Rice University, where his research focused on three-dimensional modeling of vertebral fracture risk. He went on to complete a CAMPEP-accredited residency in medical physics at Rush University Medical Center.
Templeton has held academic and clinical positions across a variety of healthcare institutions, including serving as Assistant Professor of Medical Physics in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Rush University Medical Center. He currently practices as a Senior Medical Physicist, where he leads focal treatment initiatives for brain metastases, mentors residents, and performs treatment planning and quality assurance for a wide range of modalities including SBRT, SRS, and brachytherapy.
His research interests include image-guided radiation therapy, dosimetric optimization in brachytherapy, Compton scatter imaging, radiation-induced skin toxicity, and advanced quality assurance in treatment delivery. He has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in medical physics and biomedical engineering and has presented his work at national and international conferences. Templeton is an active member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the American Brachytherapy Society.
Henry M, Templeton A, Smith R. A low-cost phantom design for evaluating spine SABR calculations in the presence of prosthetic vertebral stabilization. Phys Eng Sci Med. 2024 Sep;47(3):1267-1276. doi: 10.1007/s13246-024-01412-1. Epub 2024 Apr 4. PMID: 38573488.
Jones KC, Turian J, Redler G, Cifter G, Strologas J, Templeton A, Bernard D, Chu JCH. Scatter imaging during lung stereotactic body radiation therapy characterized with phantom studies. Phys Med Biol. 2020 Aug 10;65(15):155013. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab9355. PMID: 32408276; PMCID: PMC8341471.
Redler G, Jones KC, Templeton A, Bernard D, Turian J, Chu JCH. Compton scatter imaging: A promising modality for image guidance in lung stereotactic body radiation therapy. Med Phys. 2018 Mar;45(3):1233-1240. doi: 10.1002/mp.12755. Epub 2018 Feb 7. PMID: 29360151; PMCID: PMC5849250.
Redler G, Templeton A, Zhen H, Turian J, Bernard D, Chu JCH, Griem KL, Liao Y. Dosimetric effects of saline- versus water-filled balloon applicators for IORT using the model S700 electronic brachytherapy source. Brachytherapy. 2018 Mar-Apr;17(2):500-505. doi: 10.1016/j.brachy.2017.11.003. Epub 2017 Dec 8. PMID: 29229377.
Jones KC, Redler G, Templeton A, Bernard D, Turian JV, Chu JCH. Characterization of Compton-scatter imaging with an analytical simulation method. Phys Med Biol. 2018 Jan 11;63(2):025016. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/aaa200. PMID: 29243663; PMCID: PMC5849266.
Templeton AK, Chu JC, Turian JV. The sensitivity of ArcCHECK-based gamma analysis to manufactured errors in helical tomotherapy radiation delivery. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2015 Jan 8;16(1):4814. doi: 10.1120/jacmp.v16i1.4814. PMID: 25679155; PMCID: PMC5689971.
Yao R, Templeton AK, Liao Y, Turian JV, Kiel KD, Chu JC. Optimization for high-dose-rate brachytherapy of cervical cancer with adaptive simulated annealing and gradient descent. Brachytherapy. 2014 Jul-Aug;13(4):352-60. doi: 10.1016/j.brachy.2013.10.013. Epub 2013 Dec 17. PMID: 24359671.
Templeton A, Chu J, Sun M, Yao R, Sun J, Coon A, Bernard D, Shott S, Griem K. Thermal effusivity changes as a precursor to moist desquamation. Radiat Res. 2012 Oct;178(4):295-303. doi: 10.1667/rr2745.1. Epub 2012 Jul 23. PMID: 22823571.
Chu J, Sun J, Templeton A, Yao R, Griem K. Thermal effusivity: a promising imaging biomarker to predict radiation-induced skin injuries. Health Phys. 2012 Aug;103(2):204-9. doi: 10.1097/HP.0b013e31824758c2. PMID: 22951481.
Jiang L, Templeton A, Turian J, Kirk M, Zusag T, Chu JC. Comparison of computed tomography scout based reference point localization to conventional film and axial computed tomography. Med Dosim. 2011 Winter;36(4):410-5. doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2010.10.002. Epub 2011 Mar 11. PMID: 21397490.
Templeton A, Cody D, Liebschner M. Updating a 3-D vertebral body finite element model using 2-D images. Med Eng Phys. 2004 May;26(4):329-33. doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2004.01.004. PMID: 15121058.
Templeton A, Liebschner M. A hierarchical approach to finite element modeling of the human spine. Crit Rev Eukaryot Gene Expr. 2004;14(4):317-28. doi: 10.1615/critreveukaryotgeneexpr.v14.i4.60. PMID: 15663359.

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