William Bice

From Radiological Sciences

[edit] Biographical Sketch – William S. Bice, Jr.

Academic Appointments: Adjunct Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas

Other Appointments:

Role in Graduate Program: Adjunct Faculty

Committee: COGS Radiation Therapy Curriculum Committee Course Instructor: RADI 6033, Advanced Radiotherapy Physics Faculty Advisor: Yes Graduates Supervised: 8 students (4 MS, 4 PhD) Students Supervising: 5 students (1 MS, 5 PhD)

Education: BS (General Subjects), United States Military Academy, West Point, NY; 1973 MS (Physics), University of Illinois, Champaign, IL; 1977 PhD (Nuclear Engineering Sciences—Medical Physics), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; 1985

Post Graduate Training: None

Continuing education: 3 or 4 national meetings per year, attendance as participant or faculty

Certification: American Board of Radiology, Therapeutic Radiological Physics, 1988 American Board of Radiology, Diagnostic Radiological Physics, 1994

Clinical Responsibilities: Radiation Oncology Physicist

Research Interests: Brachytherapy, Prostate Brachytherapy, Clinical Protocols (PI, QA on 3 national, clinical protocols), Analysis of dose distributions in terms of plan evaluation and radiobiological response

Intra- and Extra-mural Support: RTOG grant ($5,000), Industrial Grant ($50,000)

[edit] Teaching: (past 3 years)

Classroom/Laboratory Date Course Title Credits Hours 2005 RADI 6033 Adv Radiotherapy Physics (Brachy, Shielding) 3 3 2006 RADI 6033 Adv Radiotherapy Physics (Brachy, Shielding) 3 3 2007 RADI 6033 Adv Radiotherapy Physics (Brachy, Shielding) 3 3

Clinical: Full time clinical physicist practicing radiation oncology physics at multiple institutions

Research: Mostly centered on brachytherapy for prostate cancer, new isotopes, dosimetric analysis

[edit] Selected Publications

Dubois, D.F., Bice, W.S., Bradford, B., Schneid, T., Engelmeier, R., Moldable tissue equivalent bolus for high-energy photon and electron therapy, Medical Physics, 23(9):1547-1550, 1996.

Prete, J.J., Bice, W.S., Dubois, D.F., Prestidge, B.R., The coupling of anisotropy and radial dose functions for 103Pd and 125I for use with a commercial treatment planning system, Medical Physics, 24(4):523-525, 1997.

Buchholz, T.A., Gurgoze, E., Bice, W.S., Prestidge, B.R., Dosimetric analysis of intact breast irradiation in off-axis planes. Interstitial Brachytherapy, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, 39(1):261-267, 1997.

Dubois, D.F., Prestidge, B.R., Hotchkiss, L.A., Prete, J.J., Bice, W.S., Source localization using magnetic resonance imaging following permanent transperineal prostate interstitial brachytherapy, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, 39(5):1037-1041, 1997.

Bice, W.S., Prestidge, B.R., Review of post-implant quality assessment in permanent transperineal interstitial prostate brachytherapy, Journal of Brachytherapy, International, 13(3): 297-313, 1997.

Bice, W.S., Prestidge, B.R., Prete, J.J., Dubois, D.F., Clinical impact of implementing the recommendations of AAPM Task Group 43 on permanent prostate brachytherapy using 125I , International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, 40(5): 1237-1241, 1998.

Prestidge, B.R., Prete, J.J., Buchholz, T.A., Friedland, J.L., Stock, R.G., Grimm, P.D., Bice, W.S., Survey of current clinical practice of transperineal interstitial permanent prostate brachytherapy in the Unites States, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, 40(2): 461-465, 1998.

Prete, J.J., Prestidge, B.R., Bice, W.S., Friedland, J.L., Stock, R.G., Grimm, P.D., Survey of physics and dosimetry practice of transperineal interstitial permanent prostate brachytherapy in the United States, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, 40(4): 1001-1005, 1998.

Prestidge, B.R., Bice, W.S., Kiefer, E., Prete, J.J., Timing of Post-implant Assessment Following Permanent Transperineal Prostate Brachytherapy, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, 40(5): 1111-1115, 1998.

Dubois, D.F., Prestidge, B.R., Hotchkiss, L., Prete, J.J., Bice, W.S. Intraobserver and Interobserver variability of MR imaging and CT-derived prostate volumes following transperineal interstitial permanent prostate brachytherapy, Radiology, 207: 785-789, 1998.

Prete, J.J., Prestidge, B.R., Dubois, D.F., Bice, W.S., A Comparison of MRI and CT Based Post Implant Dosimetric Assessment of Transperineal Interstitial Permanent Prostate Brachytherapy, Radiat Oncol Investig. 6(2): 90-6, 1998.

Bice, W.S., Prestige, B.R., Grimm, P.D., Friedland, J.L., Roach, M., Prete, J.J., Dubois, D.F., Feygelman, V., Blasko, J.C. Centralized Multi-Institutional Post-Implant Analysis for Interstitial Prostate Brachytherapy, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, 41(4): 921-928, 1998.

Buchholz, T.A., Bilton, S., Gurgoze, E., Strom, E.A., McNeese, M.D., Bice, W.S., Prestidge, B.R., Isoseparation Curves: A mechanism for optimizing off-axis dose homogeneity of intact breast irradiation, Radiation Oncology Investigations, 6(4): 191-8, 1998.

Bice, W.S., Dubois, D.F., Prete, J.J., Prestidge, B.P. Source localization from axial image sets by iterative relaxation of the nearest neighbor criterion, Medical Physics 26(9): 1919-1924, 1999.

Nag, S., Bice, W.S., DeWyngaert, K., Prestidge, B.R., Stock, R., Yu, Y. American Brachytherapy Society recommendations for permanent prostate brachytherapy postimplant dosimetric analysis, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, 46(1), 221-230, 2000.

Bice, W.S., Freeman, J.E., Russell, L.F., Case, G.D., Dubois, D.F., Prete, J.J., Prestidge, B.R. Use of image coregistration in salvage prostate brachytherapy. Techniques in Urology, 6(2):151-6, 2000.

Bice, W.S., “QA of Prostate Implants” in Quality Assurance for the Third Millenium, G. Starkschall, ed., AAPM, Columbia, MD, 2000.

Bice, W.S., Prestidge, B.R., Sarosdy, M.F. “Calibration, calculation, and prescription issues in permanent prostate brachytherapy with 103Pd.”, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, 49(1):289-91, 2001.

Dubois, D.F., Bice, W.S., Prestidge, B.R. “CT and MRI derived source localization error in a custom prostate phantom using automated image coregistration. Medical Physics, 28(11):2280-4, 2001.

Bice, W.S., Prestidge, B.R., Sarosdy, M.F. “Sector analysis of prostate implants.” Medical Physics, 28(12):2561-7, 2001.

Bice, W. S., Walker, E.S., Gearty, S., Walker, A.V., Marbach, J.R., Prestidge, B.R.. "A comparative evaluation of loading times and exposures for permanent prostate brachytherapy." J Appl Clin Med Phys. 3(4): 263-72, 2002. (Winner of award for Best Professional Paper in the Journal of Applied Medical Physics, 2002)

Huang K, Bice WS, Hidalgo-Salvatierra O. Characterization of an in vivo diode dosimetry system for clinical use. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2003 Spring;4(2):132-42.

Bice, W.S. “Post implant evaluation” in Proceedings of the 2005 AAPM Summer School”, Thomadsen, BR, Rivard, MJ and Butler, WA, eds., Medical Physics Publishing, Milwaukee, WI, 2005.

Bice, W.S. “Post implant evaluation for permanent prostate brachytherapy” in Proceedings of the 2005 AAPM Summer School”, Thomadsen, BR, Rivard, MJ and Butler, WA, eds., Medical Physics Publishing, Milwaukee, WI, 2005.

Bice, W.S., “Point/Counterpoint: Medical physicists should actively discourage institutions from advertising technologies such as IMRT and HDR brachytherapy in order to recruit patients. Against the proposition.”, Med Phys 2005;32:308-310.

Prestidge, B.R., Bice, W.S.. Urinary and rectal complications of contemporary permanent transperineal brachytherapy for prostate carcinoma with or without external beam radiation therapy. Cancer 2005;104:217-218; author reply 218-219.