Arthur L. Boyer, Ph.D.

Director, Division of Physics
Department of Radiology
Scott & White Healthcare

Faculty Rank - Texas A&M College of Medicine
Professor of Radiology

Education

• W.M. Rice University, Houston, TX, Ph.D., 1971
• W.M. Rice Univeristy, Houston, TX, M.A., 1969
• University of Dallas, Dallas, TX, B.A., 1966

Specialty Training
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, TX, 1970-1971

Board Certification

• Texas Board of Licensure for Medical Physicists
• American Board of Radiology in Therapeutic Radiological Physics
• State of California Approved Physicist to Provide Therapy Machines Calibrations and Radiation Protection Surveys

Publications and Research

• Li T, Schreibmann E, Thorndyke B, Tillman G, Boyer A, Koong A, Goodman K, Xing L

Radiation dose reduction in four-dimensional computer tomography. Med Phys. 2005 Dec;32(12):3650-3660.

• Pawlicki T, Whitaker M, Boyer AL

Statistical process control for radiotherapy quality assurance. Med Phys. 2005 Sep;32(9):277702786.

• Maxim PG, Carson JL, Benaron DA, Loo,Jr. BW, Xing L, Boyer AL, Friedland S

Optical Detection of Tumors In Vivo by Visible Light Tissue Oximetry. Technol Cancer Res Treat. 2005 Jun;4(3):227-235.

• Gibou F, Levy D, Cardenas C, Liu P, Boyer AL

Partial Differential Equations-based Segmentation for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning. Math. Bio. & Engineering. 2005. 2(2):209-226.

• Zing L, Wu Q, Yong Y, Boyer AL

Physics of IMRT and Inverse Treatment Planning, in Intensity Modulated Radiatipn Therapy: A Clinical Perspective, Mundt AF and Roeske JC. (editors), BC Decker Inc. Publisher, Hamilton, Canada, 2005, pp 20-51.

Awards

• William D. Coolidge Award of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2007
• Fellow of the American Society for Radiological Oncology, 2007
• Fellow of the Americal Association of Physicists in Medicine, 1995
• Helex prize for best paper (with Thomas Bortfeld, Ph.D.) 1994
• Dean's teaching Excellence Award, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1991, 1994

Foreign Languages

• German