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Ph.D.   1997    Biomedical Physics

University of California, Los Angeles, CA

M.S.    1995    Biomedical Physics (Radiation Therapy Physics)

University of California, Los Angeles, CA

B.S.     1991    Nuclear Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

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Selected Publications

 J. J. DeMarco, T. D. Solberg, R. E. Wallace and J. B. Smathers, "A verification of the Monte Carlo code MCNP for thick target bremsstrahlung calculations", Med. Phys. 22, 11-16 (1995).

T. D. Solberg, J. J. DeMarco, J. B. Smathers, F. E. Holly, and A. A. F. DeSalles. "Monte Carlo Treatment Planning for Stereotactic Radiosurgery". Radiotherapy and Oncology 49, 73-84. (1998)

J. J. DeMarco, T. D. Solberg, I. Chetty, and J. B. Smathers "Efficient Sampling Algorithms for Monte Carlo Based Treatment Planning". Radiation Physics and Chemistry 53, 229-234 (1998).

J. J. DeMarco, T. D. Solberg, and J. B. Smathers "A CT-based Monte Carlo dosimetry tool for dosimetry planning and analysis," Med. Phys. 25, 1-11 (1998).

T. D. Solberg, A. A. F. DeSalles, P. M. Medin, J. J. DeMarco, and M. T. Selch. "Technical Aspects of LINAC Radiosurgery for the Treatment of Small Functional Targets". Journal of Radiosurgery. 1, 115-127 (1998).

A. V. Mesa, A. Norman, T. D. Solberg, J. J. DeMarco, and J. B. Smathers "Dose distributions using kilovoltage x-rays and dose enhancement from iodine contrast agents," Phys. Med. Biol. 44, 1955-68 (1999).

J. J. DeMarco, J. B. Smathers, C. M. Burnison, Q. K. Ncube, and T. D. Solberg "CT-based dosimetry calculations for ¹²⁵I prostate implants," Int. Journal Of Rad. Onc. Biol. And Phys. 45, 1347-1353 (1999).

I. Chetty, J. J. DeMarco, and T. D. Solberg "A virtual source model for Monte Carlo modeling of arbitrary intensity distributions," Med. Phys. 27, 166-172 (2000).

I. Chetty, J. J. DeMarco, T. D. Solberg, A. R. Arellano, R. Fogg, and A. V. Mesa "A phase-space model for simulating arbitrary intensity distribution for shaped radiosurgery beams using the Monte Carlo method," Radiosurgery 3, 41-52 (2000).

T. D. Solberg, J. J. DeMarco, I. Chetty, A. V. Mesa, C. H. Cagnon, A. N. Li, K. K. Mather, P. M. Medin, A. R. Arellano, and J. B. Smathers “A Review of Radiation Dosimetry Applications using the MCNP Monte Carlo Code,” Radiochimica Acta 88, 1-19 (2001)

J. J. DeMarco, R. E. Wallace and, K. Boedeker "An analysis of MCNP cross-sections and tally methods for low-energy photon emitters," Phys. Med. Biol. 47 1321-1332 (2002).

J. J. DeMarco, T. D. Solberg, and G. Hugo "Dosimetric Parameters for three low-energy brachytherapy sources using the MCNP Monte Carlo code," Med. Phys. 29, 662-668 (2002).

T. D. Solberg, J. J. DeMarco, G. Hugo and R. E. Wallace "Dosimetric Parameters of three new solid core I-125 brachytherapy sources," J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys. 3, 119-133 (2002).

J. J. DeMarco, I. Chetty, and T. D. Solberg "A Monte Carlo tutorial and the application for radiotherapy treatment planning”, Medical Dosimetry. 27, 43-50 (2002).

R. F. Aaronson, J. J. DeMarco, I. J. Chetty, N. Agazaryan, T. D. Solberg "A Monte Carlo Based Phase Space Model for Quality Assurance of Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy Incorporating Leaf Specific Characteristics," Med. Phys. 29, 2952-2958 (2002).

N. Agazaryan, T. D. Solberg, and J. J. DeMarco “Patient specific quality assurance for the delivery of intensity modulated radiotherapy,” J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys. 4, 40-50 (2003).

J. J. DeMarco, T. D. Solberg, and N. Agazaryan, “A seed specific dose kernel method for low-energy brachytherapy dosimetry,” J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys. 4, 66-74 (2003).

J. J. DeMarco, A. Mesa, and T. D. Solberg, “A Monte Carlo evaluation of antiprotons for radiation therapy” American Nuclear Society Transactions 88, 215-216 (2003).

G. Jarry, J. J. DeMarco, U. Beifuss, C. H. Cagnon, and M. F. McNitt-Gray “A Monte Carlo-Based Method to Estimate Radiation Dose from Spiral CT: From Phantom Testing to Patient Specific Models”, Phys. Med. Biol. 48, 2645-2663 (2003).

C. Maggiore, N. Agazaryan, N. Bassler, G. Beyer, J. J. DeMarco, M. Doser, M. H. Holzscheiter, T. Ichioka, K. S. Iwamoto, H. V. Knudsen, R. Landua, W. H. McBride, S. Møller, J. Petersen, J. B. Smathers, L. D. Skarsgard, T. D. Solberg, U. I. Uggerhøj, H. R. Withers, S. Vranjes, M. Wong, B G. Wouters “Biological Effectiveness of Antiproton Annihilation”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 214, 181-185 (2004).

J. J. DeMarco, C. H. Cagnon, D. D. Cody, D. M. Stevens, C. H. McCollough, J. O’Daniel^,, M. F. McNitt-Gray “Monte-Carlo based method to estimate radiation dose from multidetector CT (MDCT): Cylindrical and Anthropomorphic Phantoms”, Phys. Med. Biol. 50, 3989-4004 (2005).

K. Lin, S. P. Lee, J. S. Cho, R. E. Reiter, J. J. DeMarco, T. D. Solberg, “Improvements in prostate brachytherapy dosimetry due to seed stranding”, Brachytherapy 6, 44-48, (2007).

J. J. DeMarco, C. H. Cagnon, D. D. Cody, D. M. Stevens, C. H. McCollough, M. Zankl, E. Angel, M. F. McNitt-Gray “Estimating Radiation Doses from Multidetector CT Using Monte Carlo Simulations: Effects of Different Size Voxelized Patient Models on Magnitudes of Organ and Effective Dose”, Phys. Med. Biol. 52, 2583-2597 (2007).

M. H. Holzscheiter, N. Bassler, N. Agazaryan, G. Beyer, E. Blackmore, J. J. DeMarco, M. Doser, R. E. Durand, O. Hartley, K. S. Iwamoto, H. V. Knudsen, Rolf Landua, C. Maggiore, W. H. McBride, S. P. Møller, J. Petersen, L. D. Skarsgard, J. B. Smathers, T. D. Solberg, U. I. Uggerhøj, S. Vranjes, H. R. Withers, M. Wong, B. G. Wouters  “The biological effectiveness of antiproton irradiation”, Radiotherapy and Oncology 81, 233-242 (2006).