Connel Chu, M.S.

Chu

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

M.S., Medical Physics, 1983
University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX,

B.S., Physics, 1979
York College of City University of New York, N.Y.C., New York

EMPLOYMENT

Medical Physicist, 2008-present
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, Baton Rouge, LA

Clinical Medical Physicist, 1996-2008
LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT

Junior Medical Physicist, 1991-1996
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Research Assistant, 1985-1990
University of Houston, Houston, TX

Teaching Assistant, 1984-1985
University of Houston, Houston, TX

Radiological Physics Technician, 1980-1983
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

CERTIFICATIONS

American Board of Radiology, 1995
Therapeutic Radiological Physics

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Gastorf, R.J., Hanson, W.F., Berkley, L.W., Kirby, T.H., Chu, C., and Shalek, R.J.:  A comparison of high energy accelerator depth dose data.  Medical Physics, 10:881-885, 1983.

  2. Kirby, T.H., Hanson, W.F., Gastorf, R.J., Chu, C., and Shalek, R.J.: Mailable TLD system for photon and electron beams.  International Journal of Radiation Oncology and Biology Physics 12:261-265, 1985.

  3. Chu, C., Hogstrom, K., Chen, G., and Hilko, R.:  Thermoluminescence of LiF in therapeutic high linear energy charged-particle beams.  Phys Med. Biol. 31:2:145, 1986.

  4. Armstrong, T., Chu, C., Clement, J., Elinon C., Furic, Hartman, K., Hicks, A., Hungerford, E., Kishismoto, T., Kruk, J., Lewis, R., Lowenstein, D., Lochstet, W., Mayes, B., Moss, G., Mutchler, G., Pinksy, L., Smith, G., Tang, L., von Witch, W., and Xue, Y.:  A search for narrow states in antineutron-proton total and annihilation cross sections near NN threshold.  Phys. Lett. 175:3:383, 1986.

  5. Chrien, R., Bart, M., Pile, P., Sutter, R., Barnes, P., Bassaleck, B., Einsenstein, R., Marlow, D., Rieder, R., Seydoux, J., Wharton, W., Derderian, J., Civelekoglu, Y., Deutsch, M., Prather, J., Chu, C. Hackenberg, R., Hungerford, E., Kishimoto, T., Fukuda, T., Bartlett, M., Hoffman, G., Milner, E., and Sterns, R.:  Search for radioactive transitions in the hypernucleus K10B.  Phys. Rev. C:41:3:1062, 1990.

  6. Tailor, R.C., Chu, C., Followill, D.S. and Hanson, W.F. : Equilibration of air temperature inside the thimble of a Farmer-type ion chamber. Medical Physics, 4:496-502, 1998.

  7. Bencomo, J.A, Chu, C, Tello, V.M.,Cho, S.M. and Ibbott, G.S.: Anthropomorphic Breast Phantoms for Quality Assurance and Dose Verification. Accepted in 2003 and to be published in J of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 3/2004.