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Stephen A. Graves, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiology-Division of Nuclear Medicine

Current Positions

  • Assistant Professor of Radiology - Division of Nuclear Medicine

Education

  • BS in Physics, Tennessee Technological University, Cokeville, Tennessee
  • MS in Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
  • PhD in Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
  • Resident in Medical Physics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States

Graduate Program Affiliations

Licenses & Certifications

  • Diplomate of the American Board of Radiology (DABR) in Therapy Medical Physics
  • Diplomate of the American Board of Radiology (DABR) in Nuclear Medical Physics
  • Certificate of AAPM TG-197 Academic Compliance, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

Selected Publications

  • Xiong X, Smith BJ, Graves SA, Graham MM, Buatti JM, Beichel RR. Head and Neck Cancer Segmentation in FDG PET Images: Performance Comparison of Convolutional Neural Networks and Vision Transformers. Tomography. 2023 Oct 18;9(5):1933-1948. doi: 10.3390/tomography9050151. PMID: 37888743; PMCID: PMC10611182.
  • Busse NC, Al-Ghazi MSAL, Abi-Jaoudeh N, Alvarez D, Ayan AS, Chen E, Chuong MD, Dezarn WA, Enger SA, Graves SA, Hobbs RF, Jafari ME, Kim SP, Maughan NM, Polemi AM, Stickel JR. AAPM Medical Physics Practice Guideline 14.a: Yttrium-90 microsphere radioembolization. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2023 Oct 11:e14157. doi: 10.1002/acm2.14157. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37820316.
  • Graves SA. Radiation Safety Considerations of Household Waste Disposal After Release of Patients Who Have Received [177Lu]Lu-PSMA-617. J Nucl Med. 2023 Oct;64(10):1567-1569. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.123.265750. Epub 2023 Jul 13. PMID: 37442601.
  • Sunderland JJ, Graves SA, York DM, Mundt CA, Bartel TB. Multicenter Evaluation of Frequency and Impact of Activity Infiltration in PET Imaging, Including Microscale Modeling of Skin-Absorbed Dose. J Nucl Med. 2023 Jul;64(7):1095-1101. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.123.265891. Epub 2023 May 25. Erratum in: J Nucl Med. 2023 Oct;64(10):1668. PMID: 37230534; PMCID: PMC10315693.
  • Tranel J, Palm S, Graves SA, Feng FY, Hope TA. Impact of radiopharmaceutical therapy (177Lu, 225Ac) microdistribution in a cancer-associated fibroblasts model. EJNMMI Phys. 2022 Sep 30;9(1):67. doi: 10.1186/s40658-022-00497-5. PMID: 36178531; PMCID: PMC9525486.
  • English KK, Knox S, Graves SA, Kiess AP. Basics of Physics and Radiobiology for Radiopharmaceutical Therapies. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2022 Jul-Aug;12(4):289-293. doi: 10.1016/j.prro.2022.04.004. PMID: 35717042.
  • Soulek DK, Mastascusa NJ, Martin ME, Graves SA. Practical Considerations for Implementation of <sup>177</sup>Lu-DOTATATE Neuroendocrine Tumor Treatment Programs. J Nucl Med Technol. 2022 Jun 14:jnmt.122.263813. doi:10.2967/jnmt.122.263813. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35701215.
  • Park EA, Graves SA, Menda Y. The Impact of Radiopharmaceutical Therapy on Renal Function. Semin Nucl Med. 2022 Jul;52(4):467-474. doi:10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2022.02.004. Epub 2022 Mar 18. PMID: 35314056.
  • Graves SA, Martin M, Tiwari A, Merrick M, Sunderland J. SIR-Spheres Activity Measurements Reveal Systematic Miscalibration. J Nucl Med. 2022 Aug;63(8):1131-1135. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.121.262650. Epub 2022 Jan 6. PMID: 34992155.
  • Xiong X, Smith BJ, Graves SA, Sunderland JJ, Graham MM, Gross BA, Buatti JM, Beichel RR. Quantification of uptake in pelvis F-18 FLT PET-CT images using a 3D localization and segmentation CNN. Med Phys. 2022 Mar;49(3):1585-1598. doi:10.1002/mp.15440. Epub 2022 Jan 19. PMID: 34982836; PMCID: PMC9447843.

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