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Arthur Lonnie Boyer

Profession:
Medical physicist specializing in radiation oncology

Birth:
El Paso, Texas
September 10, 1945

Education:
W.M. Rice University, Houston, Texas, Ph.D., 1971, Physics
W.M. Rice University, Houston, Texas, M.A., 1969, Physics
University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, B.A., 1966, Physics

Certifications:
American Board of Radiology in Therapeutic Radiological Physics-1978.

Fellowships:
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor
Institute, Houston, Texas, 1970-1971

Career:
Dr. Boyer was born in El Paso, Texas and raised in the vicinity of Dallas, Texas.  He attended the University of Dallas where he received a BA in Physics in 1966.  Dr. Boyer was supported by a scholarship from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center to study in the Physics Department at Rice University where he received a Ph.D. in Physics in 1971.  After a Postdoctoral Fellowship at M.D. Anderson, Art accepted a position at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Radiation Oncology Department chaired by Herman Suit, M.D.  Art served in the Radiation Oncology Physics Division, directed by Edward Epp, with Michael Goitein, Peter Biggs, Clifton Ling, and Lynn Verhey.  In 1978 Art, then an Assistant Professor at the Harvard School of Medicine and an Associate Radiation Biophysicist at the MGH, accepted an invitation to return to Texas as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and as Director of Physics in the Cancer Therapy and Research Center.  In 1986 Art accepted an Associate Professorship in the Physics Department at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center chaired by Ken Hogstrom.  In 1991 Lester Peters, M.D., Chair of the M.D. Anderson Radiation Oncology Division, approved a renewal application of Art’s NCI Grant R01 - CA 43840 whose specific aims were to demonstrate IMRT inverse treatment planning, IMRT delivery using a multi-leaf collimator, and EPIDs to verify patient positioning.  These concepts were demonstrated by 1995 with key contributions by Thomas Bortfeld working as a Fellow at M.D. Anderson, and Lei Dong whom Art served as thesis advisor.  Art then accepted a tenured full Professorship at Stanford University School of Medicine as Director of the Radiation Physics Division in the Radiation Oncology Department chaired by Richard Hoppe, M.D.  The faculty of the Division included Lei Xing, Gary Luxton, Charlie Ma, Todd Pawlicki, David Findley, and Ted Graves.  Art served as PI for NCI grant R25 - CA 89178 to development a web-based tool for Medical Dosimetrist mentors.  In 2005 Art returned to Texas again as the Director of the Physics Division of the Radiology Department at Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas and a Professor at Texas A&M University School of Medicine.  Art is certified by the American Board of Radiology and is a Fellow of the AAPM.  Art was awarded 10 research grants between 1985 and 2005, authored over 100 scientific papers and 17 book chapters, and edited two books.  He has served as Associate Editor for Medical Physics and as North American Editor for Physics in Medicine and Biology.    Between 1992 and 2007 Art directly supervised or served on the advisory or supervisory committees of 13 M.S. and Ph.D. students, and supervised twelve Post-Doctoral Fellows.    Art has served the American Association of Physicists in Medicine as President of the New England Chapter and of the Southwest Chapter, as a member of the Board of Directors, on a variety of committees and on three Task Groups, two as chair, Task Group No. 50 - Multileaf Collimator Dosimetry, and TG 131 under the International Affairs Committee to develop web-based training for medical physicists abroad.

Publications [Up to 15]:

1. Boyer AL:  Laser "cross-hair" sidelight.  Medical Physics  5:58-60, 1978.
2. Boyer AL, Goitein M:  Simulator mounted moire topography camera for constructing compensating filters.  Medical Physics  7:19-26, 1980.
3. Boyer AL:  Shortening the calculation time of photon dose distributions in an inhomogeneous medium.  Medical Physics  11:552-554, 1984.
4. Boyer AL, Mok EC:  A photon dose distribution model employing convolution calculations.  Medical Physics  12(2):169-177, 1985.
5. Zhu Y, Boyer AL:  X-ray dose computations in heterogeneous media using 3-dimensional FFT convolution.  Phys. Med. Biol. 35:351-368, 1990.
6. Bortfeld TR, Kahler DL, Waldron, TJ, Boyer AL:  X-ray field compensation with multileaf collimators.  Intl. J. Rad. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 28:723-730, 1994.
7. Dong L and Boyer AL:  An objective method for evaluating electronic portal imaging devices.  Medical Physics 21(6):755-760, 1994.
8. Bortfeld T, Boyer AL, Schlegel W, Kahler DL, Waldron TJ:  Realization and verification of three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy with modulated fields.  Intl. J. Rad. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 30(4):899-908, 1994.
9. Boyer AL, Geis P, Grant W, Carol M:  Modulated beam conformal therapy for head and neck tumors. Int. J. Rad. Onc. Biol. Phys., 39 (1): 227-236, 1997.
10. Ma L, Boyer AL, Ma CM, Xing L: Synchronizing Dynamic Multileaf Collimators for Producing Two-dimensional Intensity-modulated Fields with Minimum Beam Delivery Time.   Int. J. Rad. Onc. Biol. Phys. 44(5):1147-1154, 1999.
11. Kochunov P, Lancaster J, Thompson P, Boyer A, Hardies J, Fox P:  Evaluation of octree regional spatial normalization method for regional anatomical matching.  Human Brain Mapping.  11:193-206, 2000.
12. Xing L, Cotrutz C, Hunjan S, Boyer AL, Adalsteinsson E, Spielman D: Inverse planning for functional image-guided intensity-modulated radiation therapy. Phys.Med.Biol. 47:3567-3578, 2002.
13. Li T, Schreibmann E, Thorndyke B, Tillman G, Boyer A, Koong A, Goodman K, Xing L:  Radiation dose reduction in four-dimensional computed tomography.  Med Phys, Dec;32(12):3650-3660, 2005.
14. Boyer AL:  Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy.  In: Treatment Planning In Radiation Oncology, Second Edition, FM Khan (Editor).  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006, pp. 142-165.
15. S. Korreman, H. Mostafavi, Q-T Le, A. Boyer.  Comparison of respiratory surrogates for gated lung radiotherapy without internal fiducials.  Acta Oncologica 45(7):935–942, 2006.

Awards:

• Dean's Teaching Excellence Award, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1990-91, 1994
• The Robert J. Shalek Award, AAPM Southwest Chapter, 1992
• Editor's Recognition Award With Distinction, Radiology, 1988
• Silver Plaque for Scientific Exhibit Achievement, The American Society for Therapeutic Radiologists, 21st Annual Meeting, 1979
• Helex prize for best paper (with Thomas Bortfeld, Ph.D.) awarded at the XIth, International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy, 1994
• Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 1995
• Coolidge Award.  American Association of Physicists in Medicine. 2007.

 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Activities:
                  Asian Oceanic Subcommittee
                  Awards Selection Subcommittee
                  Continuing Education Committee, chairman
                  Radiation Therapy Committee
                  Liaison to AAMD
                   Newsletter Editorial Board
                  Continuing Education by Remote Means Subcommittee
                  Task Group No. 50  -  Multileaf Collimator Dosimetry, Chair
                  Task Group No. 44 -  Tissue Inhomogeneity Corrections for Photon Beams,
                  Task Group No. 65: Tissue Inhomogeniety Corrections for Photon Beams,
                  Task Group No. 131:  Medical Physics Training in Developing Countries in the Region, Chair
                  Training and Practice of Medical Dosimetry Subcommittee, Member
                  Member, Research Committee
                  President, New England Chapter
                  President, Southwest Chapter

Other Professional Organization Activities:

• American College of Medical Physics (ACMP) Activities:

                 Awards and Honors Committee
                 Continuing Education Committee
                 Radiation Research Committee
                 American Association of Physicists in Medicine
                 Board of Directors, Member-at-Large

• Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Activities:

                  RSNA Refresher Course, "Clinically Related Anatomy for Physicists”
                  RSNA Refresher Course, "Imaging in Radiation Therapy"
                  RSNA Refresher Course, “Brachytherapy Image Registration and Image Segmentation”.

• The American Society For Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) Activities:

                  Annual Meeting Scientific Program Sub-committee.
                  Vice Chair, Workforce Committee.
                  JEC Emerging Technologies Sub-committee.

• International Organization Medical Physics (IOMP) Activities:

                World Congress on Physics in Durban South Africa as a member of the delegation from the United States.

• American Board of Radiology (ABR) Activities:

                  Examiner at the Radiologic Physics Oral Examination.
                  Author and Reviewer for the ABR oral exam on therapy physics.

Civic Activities:
church – vestry, choir

Avocations and Special Interests:
piano, oil painting, jogging, horse-back riding, hunting

Family:
Wife: Suzanne Wing Boyer
Son: Christopher Carter Boyer, Ph.D. (chemical engineer)
Wife: Roxanne Boyer
Daughters: Kaylie, Bethany
Son: Bryce Arthur Boyer, BA (photographer)
Wife: Christy Boyer
Daughter: Olivia
Daughter: Sherry Rachelle Boyer

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