Peter G Maxim

Biography

Dr. Maxim is a medical physicist in Radiation Oncology at Stanford University and Biophysicist, whose personal vision is the development of advanced, curative radiation therapy for all types and stages of malignancies, and new indications such as cardiovascular illnesses that will lead to increased survival worldwide from the top cancer and non-cancer causes of mortality. His personal areas of emphasis are stereotactic ablative radiation therapy (SABR), four-dimensional computed tomography (4D CT), and the development of novel, and safe radiation therapy that addresses the major technical challenge of accurately and precisely treating moving targets and anatomy. Peter is interested in the management of interdisciplinary, science and technology oriented teams in health care and is actively developing next generation radiotherapy technologies. Peter received his Dipl. Phys. (M.Sc.) from the Technical University, Berlin, Germany his Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. He is certified by the American Board of Radiology in Therapeutic Radiologic Physics. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at Stanford University.

Research Interest

My clinical research interests include 4-D multimodality imaging of tumor and organ motion using CT and PET and implementation and clinical trials of high-precision image-guided radiation therapy including 4-D IMRT, dynamic conformal arc radiotherapy (DCART) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR). My preclinical and translational research interests include novel functional imaging of the lung novel reconstruction and processing methods for 4-D imaging data to reduce artifacts.