Michael A S Lamba , PhD
Professor-Emeritus
Director, Graduate Education; Medical Physicist
UC Health Barrett Cancer Center
Department of Radiation Oncology
234 Goodman Street, ML 0757
Cincinnati,, Ohio 45267-0757
Phone 513-584-9028
Fax 513-584-4007
Email Michael.Lamba@uc.edu
Education
Bachelor's Degree: University of Virginia 1985 (Nuclear Engineering)
Master's Degree: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine 1988 (Radiological Sciences)
Doctoral Degree: University of Cincinnati 2000 (Nuclear Engineering, Medical Physics option)
Research and Practice Interests
Positions and Work Experience
07-2008 -To Present Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
09-2006 -06-2008 Associate Professor, Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
05-2003 -08-2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
05-2003 -To Present Chief Physicist, Responsible for physics aspects of installation, acceptance and operation of BrainLab Novalis and Tomotherapy. , Precision Radiotherapy, West Chester, Ohio
05-2000 -05-2003 Research Physicist, Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Radiology, The Barrett Cancer Center. Responsible for implementation of intensity modulated radiation therapy, imaging for radiation therapy targeting, and implementation of other new technologies. , University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Research Support
Grant: #456 / R01 CA 112182 Investigators:Lamba, Michael 03-22-2005 -12-31-2009 National Cancer Institute Neurobehavioral Late-Effects in Pediatric Brain Tumors Role:PI $120,815.00 Closed Level:Federal
Grant: #R01 CA112182 Investigators:Lamba, Michael 06-01-2009 -08-31-2011 National Cancer Institute Neurobehavioral Late-Effects in Pediatric Brain Tumors Role:PI $39,003.00 Closed Level:Federal
Grant: #415810 / DE-AC05-76RL01830 Investigators:Barrett, William; Greis, Kenneth; Lamba, Michael 06-22-2018 -04-30-2020 Department of Energy Ceium Irradiator Replacement Program - University of Cincinnati Proposal Number 463974 Role:Collaborator $203,000.00 Active Level:Federal
Grant: #Exhibit A_Attachment 5_Research Plan No 2 Investigators:Ionascu, Traian; Lamba, Michael 06-01-2018 -05-31-2019 Varian, Inc. Varian Role:PI $77,000.00 Active Level:Industry
Grant: #Contract No. 475524 Investigators:Ionascu, Traian; Lamba, Michael; Takiar, Vinita; Vatner, Ralph 08-02-2019 -07-31-2020 Department of Energy Evaluating Equivalence of Cellular Response to X-ray and Gamma Irradiation of Varying Energies Role:PI $53,489.25 Active Level:Federal
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Blonigen, Brian J; Steinmetz, Ryan D; Levin, Linda; Lamba, Michael A; Warnick, Ronald E; Breneman, John C (2009. ) Irradiated Volume as a Predictor of Brain Radionecrosis after Linear Accelerator Stereotactic Radiosurgery.International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, , More Information
Slate, Lawrence J; Elson, Howard R; Lamba, Michael A S; Kassing, William M; Soldano, Michael; Barrett, William L (2004. ) A Monte Carlo brachytherapy study for dose distribution prediction in an inhomogeneous medium.Medical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists, , 29 (4 ) ,271-8 More Information
Fodor, J; Breneman, J C; Lamba, M A; Foster, A E; Elson, H (1998. ) Modification of a linear accelerator table top for non-coplanar conformal brain radiotherapy. Medical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists, , 23 (1 ) ,27-9
Harris, C K; Elson, H R; Lamba, M A; Foster, A E (1997. ) Comparison of effectiveness of thermoluminescent crystals LiF:Mg,Ti, and LiF:Mg,Cu,P for clinical dosimetry. Medical physics, , 24 (9 ) ,1527-9
Siochi, R A; Elson, H R; Foster, A E; Lamba, M A (1997. ) A self-collimating convolution backprojection algorithm for optimizing dose distributions of I-125 prostate implants. Medical physics, , 24 (2 ) ,241-9
Taha, J M; Lamba, M A; Samaratunga, C; Breneman, J C; Warnick, R E (1996. ) A method to reduce systematic spatial shift associated with magnetic resonance imaging. Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery, , 66 (1-3 ) ,118-22
Guarnaschelli, Jess N; Vagal, Achala S; McKenzie, Joshua T; McPherson, Christopher M; Warnick, Ronald E; Batra, Vivek; Breneman, John C; Lamba, Michael A Target definition for malignant gliomas: no difference in radiation treatment volumes between 1.5T and 3T magnetic resonance imaging.Practical radiation oncology, , 4 (5 ) ,e195-201 More Information
Mart, Chris J; Elson, Howard R; Lamba, Michael A S (2012. ) Measurement of low-energy backscatter factors using GAFCHROMIC film and OSLDs. Journal of applied clinical medical physics, , 13 (6 ) ,3832
Bennett, Brian Richard; Lamba, Michael A S; Elson, Howard R (2010. ) Analysis of peripheral doses for base of tongue treatment by linear accelerator and helical TomoTherapy IMRT. Journal of applied clinical medical physics, , 11 (3 ) ,3136
Brahimaj, Bledi; Lamba, Michael; Breneman, John C; Warnick, Ronald E (2016. ) Iodine-125 seed migration within brain parenchyma after brachytherapy for brain metastasis: case report.Journal of neurosurgery, , 125 (5 ) ,1167-1170 More Information
Qi, Zhihua; Lemen, Lisa C; Lamba, Michael; Chen, Hua-Hsuan; Samaratunga, Ranasinghage; Mahoney, Mary; Hendrick, R Edward (2016. ) Radiation Dose to the Breast by 64-slice CT: Effects of Scanner Model and Study Protocol.Academic radiology, , 23 (8 ) ,987-93 More Information
Amoush, Ahmad; Luckstead, Marcus; Lamba, Michael; Elson, Howard; Kassing, William (2013. ) A comparison of HDR near source dosimetry using a treatment planning system, Monte Carlo simulation, and radiochromic film.Medical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists, , 38 (2 ) ,160-4 More Information
Offerman, Shannon; Lamba, Michael; Lavigne, Ruth (2011. ) Effect of breast volume on treatment reproducibility on a tomotherapy unit in the treatment of breast cancer.International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, , 80 (2 ) ,417-21 More Information
Verma, Sadhna; Rajesh, Arumugam; Morales, Humberto; Lemen, Lisa; Bills, Gordon; Delworth, Mark; Gaitonde, Krish; Ying, Jun; Samartunga, Ranasinghe; Lamba, Michael (2011. ) Assessment of aggressiveness of prostate cancer: correlation of apparent diffusion coefficient with histologic grade after radical prostatectomy.AJR. American journal of roentgenology, , 196 (2 ) ,374-81 More Information
Lamba, Michael; Breneman, John C; Warnick, Ronald E (2009. ) Evaluation of image-guided positioning for frameless intracranial radiosurgery.International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, , 74 (3 ) ,913-9 More Information
Breneman, John C; Steinmetz, Ryan; Smith, Aaron; Lamba, Michael; Warnick, Ronald E (2009. ) Frameless image-guided intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery: clinical outcomes for brain metastases.International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, , 74 (3 ) ,702-6 More Information
Moeckly, Steven R; Lamba, Michael; Elson, Howard R (2008. ) Respiratory motion effects on whole breast helical tomotherapy.Medical physics, , 35 (4 ) ,1464-75 More Information
Ris, M Douglas; Ryan, Patricia McDonough; Lamba, Michael; Brenemen, John; Cecil, Kim; Succop, Paul; Ball, William (2005. ) An improved methodology for modeling neurobehavioral late-effects of radiotherapy in pediatric brain tumors.Pediatric blood & cancer, , 44 (5 ) ,487-93 More Information
Lamba, Michael; Holland, Scott K; Schmithorst, Vincent; Dardzinski, Bernard; d'Errico, Francesco; Nath, Ravinder (2003. ) Fast high-resolution 3D segmented echo planar imaging for dose mapping using a superheated emulsion chamber.Magnetic resonance in medicine, , 49 (4 ) ,675-81 More Information
Lamba, M; Holland, S K; Elson, H; d'Errico, F; Nath, R (1998. ) Magnetic resonance imaging of microbubbles in a superheated emulsion chamber for brachytherapy dosimetry.Medical physics, , 25 (12 ) ,2316-25 More Information
d'Errico, F; Nath, R; Lamba, M; Holland, S K (1998. ) A position-sensitive superheated emulsion chamber for three-dimensional photon dosimetry. Physics in medicine and biology, , 43 (5 ) ,1147-58
Breneman, J C; Elson, H R; Little, R; Lamba, M; Foster, A E; Aron, B S (1990. ) A technique for delivery of total body irradiation for bone marrow transplantation in adults and adolescents. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, , 18 (5 ) ,1233-6
Raghubar, Kimberly P; Lamba, Michael; Cecil, Kim M; Yeates, Keith Owen; Mahone, E Mark; Limke, Christina; Grosshans, David; Beckwith, Travis J; Ris, M Douglas (2018. ) Dose-volume metrics and their relation to memory performance in pediatric brain tumor patients: A preliminary study.Pediatric blood & cancer, , 65 (9 ) ,e27245 More Information
Sandwall, Peter A; Bastow, Brandt P; Spitz, Henry B; Elson, Howard R; Lamba, Michael; Connick, William B; Fenichel, Henry (2018. ) Radio-Fluorogenic Gel Dosimetry with Coumarin.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland), , 5 (3 ) , More Information
Sandwall, Peter A; Feng, Yuntao; Platt, Michael; Lamba, Michael; Mahalingam, Sudha Evolution of brachytherapy treatment planning to deterministic radiation transport for calculation of cardiac dose.Medical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists, , 43 (2 ) ,150-158 More Information
Zhou, Y M; Freese, C; Meier, T; Go, D; Khullar, K; Sudhoff, M; Lamba, M; Kharofa, J (2018. ) The absolute volume of PET-defined, active bone marrow spared predicts for high grade hematologic toxicity in cervical cancer patients undergoing chemoradiation.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico, , 20 (6 ) ,713-718 More Information
Freese, Christopher; Sudhoff, Mickaela; Lewis, Luke; Lamba, Michael; Kharofa, Jordan (2018. ) The volume of PET-defined, active bone marrow spared predicts acute hematologic toxicities in anal cancer patients receiving concurrent chemoradiotherapy.Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden), , 57 (5 ) ,683-686 More Information
Xiao, Zhiyan; Zhang, Yongbin; Speth, Joseph; Lee, Eunsin; Mascia, Anthony; Lamba, Michael (2022. ) Evaluation of a conventionally shielded proton treatment room for FLASH radiotherapy.Medical physics, , More Information
Nelson, Bailey; Lamba, Michael; Ewart, Steven; Ike, Nnamdi; Lewis, Luke; Pater, Luke Normal tissue exposure and second malignancy risk in vertebral-body-sparing craniospinal irradiation.Medical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists, , 47 (2 ) ,142-145 More Information
Garrett, Matthew C; Albano, Rebecca; Carnwath, Troy; Shah, Sanjit; Woo, Daniel; Lamba, Michael; Plas, David R; Paranjpe, Aditi; Roskin, Krishna; Zhao, Chuntao; Lu, Richard (2022. ) Chromatin structure predicts survival in glioma patients.Scientific reports, , 12 (1 ) ,8221 More Information
Korns, Julianna; McCauley, Shelby; Lehn, Maria; Takiar, Vinita; Sertorio, Mathieu; Lamba, Michael (2023. ) Varied Photon Radiation Sources Produce Differences in Cellular Response.Radiation research, , 199 (4 ) ,422-428 More Information
Mast, T Douglas; Johnstone, David A; Dumoulin, Charles L; Lamba, Michael A; Patch, Sarah K (2023. ) Reconstruction of thermoacoustic emission sources induced by proton irradiation using numerical time reversal.Physics in medicine and biology, , 68 (2 ) , More Information
Contact Information
Academic - UC Health Barrett Cancer Center
Department of Radiation Oncology
Cincinnati,
Ohio, 45267-0757
Phone: 513-584-9028
Fax: 513-584-4007
Michael.Lamba@uc.edu