Eric Elder, PhD, MS

Research Program

Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics
Phone Number

404-778-3473
Email Address

eelder@emory.edu

Biography

Eric S. Elder, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. His research in the area of stereotactic rotational therapy for areas outside of the brain, combined with his clinical skills and hardware background, complements the clinical image-guided radiation therapy program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. Elder is also a member of the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Research Program, developing novel therapeutic approaches for the detection and treatment of cancer at Winship.

Education

Dr. Elder received his PhD and MS from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He received his BS from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He received his certification from the American Board of Radiology in Therapeutic Radiological Physics in 1997.

Titles & Roles

Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology

Emory University School of Medicine

Research

Dr. Elder's research interests are in computational microdosimetry, new treatment planning algorithms and novel delivery methods. He is involved in computational dosimetry projects with Georgia Tech's Nuclear Engineering Department. He spends 50% of spring semester teaching on the Georgia Tech campus in the Medical Physics program.

Title/Journal	Authors	Publication Date
High-resolution 3T to 7T ADC map synthesis with a hybrid CNN-transformer model. Medical physics	Z Eidex, J Wang, M Safari, E Elder, J Wynne, T Wang, HK Shu, H Mao, X Yang	17/04/2024
Evaluation of commercial devices for patient specific QA of stereotactic radiotherapy plans. Journal of applied clinical medical physics	S James, A Al-Basheer, E Elder, C Huh, C Ackerman, J Barrett, R Hamilton, F Mostafaei	01/08/2023
Concurrent Seroprevalence of Antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii and Toxocara Species in the United States, 2011-2014. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America	EW Liu, ES Elder, HN Rivera, D Kruszon-Moran, S Handali, JL Jones	01/02/2019
Does size matter? Investigating the optimal planning target volume margin for postoperative stereotactic radiosurgery to resected brain metastases. Journal of neurosurgery	J Jhaveri, M Chowdhary, X Zhang, RH Press, JM Switchenko, MJ Ferris, TM Morgan, J Roper, A Dhabaan, E Elder, BR Eaton, JJ Olson, WJ Curran, HG Shu, IR Crocker, KR Patel	20/04/2018
A Patch-based CBCT Scatter Artifact Correction Using Prior CT. Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering	X Yang, T Liu, X Dong, X Tang, E Elder, WJ Curran, A Dhabaan	01/02/2017
Image-based Metal Artifact Reduction in X-ray Computed Tomography utilizing Local Anatomical Similarity. Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering	X Dong, X Yang, J Rosenfield, E Elder, A Dhabaan	01/02/2017
Development of Two FhSAP2 Recombinant-Based Assays for Immunodiagnosis of Human Chronic Fascioliasis. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene	SH Shin, A Hsu, HM Chastain, LA Cruz, ES Elder, SG Sapp, I McAuliffe, AM Espino, S Handali	05/10/2016
Technical Note: Unified imaging and robotic couch quality assurance. Medical physics	MC Cook, J Roper, ES Elder, E Schreibmann	01/09/2016
MRI-based computed tomography metal artifact correction method for improving proton range calculation accuracy. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics	PC Park, E Schreibmann, J Roper, E Elder, I Crocker, T Fox, XR Zhu, L Dong, A Dhabaan	15/03/2015
Six degrees of freedom CBCT-based positioning for intracranial targets treated with frameless stereotactic radiosurgery. Journal of applied clinical medical physics	A Dhabaan, E Schreibmann, A Siddiqi, E Elder, T Fox, T Ogunleye, N Esiashvili, W Curran, I Crocker, HK Shu	08/11/2012
GVHD after haploidentical transplantation: a novel, MHC-defined rhesus macaque model identifies CD28- CD8+ T cells as a reservoir of breakthrough T-cell proliferation during costimulation blockade and sirolimus-based immunosuppression. Blood	WP Miller, S Srinivasan, A Panoskaltsis-Mortari, K Singh, S Sen, K Hamby, T Deane, L Stempora, J Beus, A Turner, C Wheeler, DC Anderson, P Sharma, A Garcia, E Strobert, E Elder, I Crocker, T Crenshaw, MC Penedo, T Ward, M Song, J Horan, CP Larsen, BR Blazar, LS Kean	09/12/2010
Dosimetric performance of the new high-definition multileaf collimator for intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery. Journal of applied clinical medical physics	A Dhabaan, E Elder, E Schreibmann, I Crocker, WJ Curran, NM Oyesiku, HK Shu, T Fox	21/06/2010
Patient-specific quality assurance method for VMAT treatment delivery. Medical physics	E Schreibmann, A Dhabaan, E Elder, T Fox	01/10/2009
Performance evaluation of Calypso 4D localization and kilovoltage image guidance systems for interfraction motion management of prostate patients. TheScientificWorldJournal	T Ogunleye, PJ Rossi, AB Jani, T Fox, E Elder	12/06/2009
Automated quality assurance for image-guided radiation therapy. Journal of applied clinical medical physics	E Schreibmann, E Elder, T Fox	27/01/2009
Early clinical experience with kilovoltage image-guided radiation therapy for interfraction motion management. Medical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists	JD Lawson, T Fox, E Elder, A Nowlan, L Davis, J Keller, I Crocker	01/01/2008