Publications

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

1. S Ha, H Kang, D Kang, J Jang, JS Oh, W Sung, "A deep learning-based framework for patient-specific radiation dose prediction in beta-emitting radionuclide therapies." Physics in Medicine & Biology 71.8 (2026): 085006.

2. S Kim, J Han, W Sung, S Tattenberg, "Preliminary treatment planning strategy for blood dose reduction in head and neck radiotherapy." Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 27.4 (2026): e70579.

3. Y Kim, J Lee, I Chamseddine, C Grassberger, HI Yoon, KH Kim, Y Cho, W Sung, "Personalized survival models for choosing irradiated tumor burden on combined radiotherapy and immune checkpoint inhibitors in stage IV NSCLC patients." Physica Medica 143 (2026): 105751.

4. S Ha, TH Lee, EK Chie, J Son, CH Choi, HC Kang, W Sung, "Blood dose estimates in radiotherapy and correlations with adverse clinical outcomes in hepatocellular carcinoma." Journal of Radiation Research 67.1 (2026): 148-157.

5. S Tattenberg, J Shin, C Hoehr, X Ding, RL Deraniyagala, W Sung, Tattenberg, Sebastian, et al. "Dynamic blood dose estimates in radiotherapy and correlations with adverse clinical outcomes in brain, head‐and‐neck, and lung cancer patients." Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 27.1 (2026): e70341.

6. S Ha, BH Kang, HJ Kim, HG Wu, JH Lee, W Sung, "Prognostic impact of dose to circulating blood cells in non-small cell lung cancer patients after chemoradiotherapy." Translational Lung Cancer Research 14.9 (2025): 3900-3912.

7. S Ha, J Han, S Kim, D Kang, W Sung, “Assessing dose variability in PET/CT-based voxel dosimetry for Y-90 radioembolization”, Nuclear Engineering and Technology (2025)

8. S Kim, HK Byun, W Sung, “Spatial dose-response pattern associated with severe radiation-induced lymphopenia in the liver: A voxel-based analysis”, International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics (2025)

9. S Lee, S Kim, S Ha, KH Choi, W Sung, “Exploring the impact of pelvic radiotherapy dose distribution on lymphocyte counts: a voxel-based analysis”, Radiation Oncology (2025)

10. DS Kang, Y Kim, S Ha, S Kim, W Sung, “Radioactivity evaluation induced by beamline components in the ocular proton treatment”, Nuclear Engineering and Technology (2025)

11. D Kim, Y Kim, W Sung et al., “Prognostic models for progression-free survival in atypical meningioma: Comparison of machine learning-based approach and the COX model in an Asian multicenter study”, Radiotherapy and Oncology (2025)

12. S Tattenberg, J Shin, C Hoehr, W Sung, “Correlation of dynamic blood dose with clinical outcomes in radiotherapy for head-and-neck cancer”, Radiotherapy and Oncology (2024)

13. M Kang, Y Shin, Y Kim, S Ha, W Sung, “Modeling the Synergistic Impact of Yttrium 90 Radioembolization and Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors on Hepatocellular Carcinoma”, Bioengineering (2024)

14. E Choi, Y Kim, W Sung, “Improving reconstruction speed of positron emission particle tracking by efficient gradient calculation” , IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences (2024)

15. S Kim, HK Byun, J Shin, IJ Lee, W Sung, “Normal tissue complication probability modeling of severe radiation-induced lymphopenia using blood dose for hepatocellular carcinoma patients”, International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics (2024)\

16. Y Kim, KH Kim, J Park, HI Yoon, W Sung, “Prognosis prediction for glioblastoma multiforme patients using machine learning approaches: development of the clinically applicable model”, Radiotherapy and Oncology (2023)

17. Y Shin, JS Chang, Y Kim, SJ Shin, J Kim, TH Kim, M Liu, R Olson, JS Kim, W Sung, “Mathematical prediction with pretreatment growth rate of metastatic cancer on outcomes: implications for the characterization of oligometastatic disease”, Frontiers in Oncology (2023)

18. Y Kim, B-Y Choe, TS Suh, W Sung, “A mathematical model for predicting patient responses to combined radiotherapy with CTLA-4 immune checkpoint inhibitors”, Cells (2023)

19. H Song, Y Kim, W Sung, “Modeling of the FLASH effect for ion beam radiation therapy”, Physica Medica (2023)

20. W Sung, TS Hong, MC Poznansky, H Paganetti, C Grassberger “Mathematical modeling to simulate the effect of adding radiotherapy to immunotherapy and application to hepatocellular carcinoma”, International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics (2022) 

21. W Sung, C Grassberger, A McNamara, L Basler, S Ehrbar, S Tanadini-Lang, T Hong, H Paganetti, “A Tumor-Immune Interaction Model for Hepatocellular Carcinoma based on measured Lymphocyte Counts in Patients undergoing Radiotherapy”, Radiotherapy and Oncology (2020) **ASTRO 2019 Translational Science Award

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