Education

Undergraduate
B.S. Applied Mathematics and General Physics, 2015 University of Idaho Moscow, ID
Undergraduate
B.S. Applied Physics, 2015 University of Idaho Moscow, ID
Graduate
M.S. Medical Physics, 2017 University of Florida Gainesville, FL
Graduate
Ph.D. Medical Physics, 2020 University of Florida Gainesville, FL
Post Graduate
Diagnostic and Nuclear Medicine Physics Resident, 2020-2023 University of Florida Gainesville, FL

Areas of Interest

Clinical Interests

Current Clinical Service Responsibilities

• Perform state and ACR required testing on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computer Tomography (CT), Mammography, Fluoroscopic, and Radiographic Units.
• Radiation shielding design and verification
• Y-90 therapy dose calculations
• Radiation Safety
• MRI protocol optimization

Publications

PUBLICATIONS

REFEREED ORIGINAL ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  1. Kengne BF, Alayat AM, Luo G, McDonald AG, Brown J, Smotherman H, McIlroy DN. Preparation, surface characterization and performance of a fischer-tropsch catalyst of cobalt supported on silica nanosprings. Applied Surface Science. 2015;359(December 2015):508-514
  2. Furuta T, Sato T, Han MC, Yeom YS, Kim CH, Brown JL, Bolch WE. Implementation of tetrahedral-mesh geometry in monte carlo radiation transport code PHITS. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2017;62(12):4798-4810.
  3. Corti G, Brown J, Rajabi N, McIlroy DN. Threefold growth efficiency improvement of silica nanosprings by using silica nanosprings as a substrate. Nanotechnology. 2018;29(11):115604
  4. Carter LM, Crawford TM, Sato T, Furuta T, Choi C, Kim CH, Brown JL, Bolch WE, Zanzonico PB, Lewis JS. PARaDIM: A PHITS-based monte carlo tool for internal dosimetry with tetrahedral mesh computational phantoms. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2019;60(12):1802-1811.
  5. Li Y, O’Reilly S, Plyku D, Treves ST, Fahey F, Du Y, Cao X, Sexton‐Stallone B, Brown J, Sgouros G, Bolch WE, Frey EC. Current pediatric administered activity guidelines for 99mTc‐DMSA SPECT based on patient weight do not provide the same task‐based image quality. Medical Physics. 2019;46(11):4847-4856.
  6. Marshall EL, Rajderkar D, Brown JL, Stepusin EJ, Borrego D, Bolch WE. A scalable database of organ doses for common diagnostic fluoroscopy examinations of children: Procedures of current practice at the university of florida, Physics in Medicine & Biology. 2019;64(13):135023.
  7. Marshall EL, Rajderkar D, Brown JL, Stepusin EJ, Borrego D, Duncan J, Sammet CL, Munneke JR, Kwan ML, Miglioretti DL, Smith-Bindman R, Bolch WE. A scalable database of organ doses for common diagnostic fluoroscopy procedures of children: Procedures of historical practice for use in radiation epidemiology studies. Radiation Research. 2019;192(6):649.
  8. Brown JL, Sexton-Stallone B, Li Y, Frey EC, Treves ST, Fahey FH, Plyku D, Cao X, Choi C, Kim CH, Sgouros G, Aris JP, Bolch WE. Dosimetric considerations of 99mtc-MDP uptake within the epiphyseal plates of the long bones of pediatric patients. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 2020;65(23):235025.
  9. Brown JL, Sexton-Stallone B, Li Y, Frey EC, Treves ST, Fahey FH, Plyku D, Cao X, Sgouros G, Bolch WE. Body morphometry appropriate computational phantoms for dose and risk optimization in pediatric renal imaging with tc-99m DMSA and tc-99m MAG3. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 2020;65(23):235026.
  10. Li Y, Chen J, Brown JL, Treves ST, Cao X, Fahey FH, Sgouros G, Bolch WE, Frey EC. DeepAMO: A multi-slice, multi-view anthropomorphic model observer for visual detection tasks performed on volume images. Journal of Medical Imaging. 2021;8(04).
  11. Plyku D, Ghaly M, Li Y, Brown JL, O’Reilly S, Khamwan K, Goodkind AB, Sexton-Stallone B, Cao X, Zurakowski D, Fahey FH, Treves ST, Bolch WE, Frey EC, Sgouros G. Renal 99mTc-DMSA pharmacokinetics in pediatric patients. EJNMMI Physics. 2021;8(1):53.
  12. Sharma S, Kapadia A, Brown J, Segars WP, Bolch W, Samei E. A GPU‐accelerated framework for individualized estimation of organ doses in digital tomosynthesis. Medical Physics. 2022;49(2):891-900
  13. Vali R, Armstrong IS, Bar-Sever Z, Biassoni L, Borgwardt L, Brown J, Grant FD, Mandell GA, Majd M, Nadel HR, Ng TSC, Roca-Bielsa I, Rohringer TJ, Santos AI, Seghers V, Shaikh N, Ted Treves S, Zaffino-Nevrotski T, Zucchetta P, Lim R. SNMMI procedure standard/EANM practice guideline on pediatric [99mTc]tc-DMSA renal cortical scintigraphy: An update. Clinical and Translational Imaging. 2022;10(2):173-184.
  14. Kesner AL, Carter LM, Ramos JCO, Lafontaine D, Olguin EA, Brown JL, President B, Jokisch DW, Fisher DR, Bolch WE. MIRD pamphlet no. 28, part 1: MIRDcalc—A software tool for medical internal radiation dosimetry. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2023;64(7):1117-1124.
  15. Carter LM, Ocampo Ramos JC, Olguin EA, Brown JL, Lafontaine D, Jokisch DW, Bolch WE, Kesner AL. MIRD pamphlet no. 28, part 2: Comparative evaluation of MIRDcalc dosimetry software across a compendium of diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2023:jnumed.122.264230.
  16. 1. Li Y, Brown JL, Xu J, Chen J, Ghaly M, Cao X, Du Y, Fahey FH, Bolch WE, Sgouros G, Frey EC. Justification for and in-silico evaluation of new local-body-morphometry based dosing method for pediatric tc-99m DMSA SPECT. 2022 Annual Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2022.
  17. Ocampo Ramos JC, Carter LM, Brown JL, Marquis H, Uribe CF, Zanzonico PB, Bolch WE, Kesner AL. The risk index as a basis for risk/benefit analyses and protocol optimization in diagnostic nuclear imaging. Med Phys. 2023. doi: 10.1002/mp.16696.

CHAPTERS

  1. Brown JL, Furuta T, Bolch WE. A robust algorithm for voxel-to-polygon mesh phantom conversion. In: Brain and human body modeling. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2019:317-327.

PRESENTATIONS

  1. Brown JL, Furuta T, Bolch WE. A computational method for voxel to mesh phantom conversion. 6th International Workshop on Computational Human Phantoms 2017. 2017.
  2. Brown JL, Li G, Frey E, Treves ST, Fahey F, Bolch WE. Assessing patient risk undergoing diagnostic imaging with99mTc-dimercaptosuccinic acid as a function of waist size, renal volume, and renal depth. 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2018.
  3. Brown JL, Sexton-Stallone B, Li Y, Frey EC, Treves ST, Fahey FH, Plyku D, Sgouros G, Bolch WE. A pediatric library of phantoms for renal imaging incorporating waist circumference, renal volume, and renal depth. 2018 Annual Meeting of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine. 2018
  4. Brown JL, Sexton-Stallone B, Li Y, Frey EC, Treves ST, Fahey FH, Plyku D, Sgouros G, Bolch WE. Dosimetric impact of modeling the epiphyseal plates in pediatric 99mTc-MDP studies. 2019 Annual Meeting of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine. 2019.
  5. Brown JL, Furuta T, Bolch WE. An algorithm for voxel-to-mesh phantom conversion with applications to radiation therapy. 7th International Workshop on Computational Human Phantoms. 2019.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

  1. Brown JL, Furuta T, Bolch WE. A computational method for voxel to polygon mesh conversion of anatomic computational human phantoms. 2018 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 2018.
  2. Brown JL. 3D mammography. 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. 2022.

SCIENTIFIC EXHIBITS/COAUTHORED PRESENTATIONS

  1. O’Reilly SE, Khaman K, Plyku D, Brown JL, Cao X, Li Y, Sgouros G, Fahey F, Treves S, Bolch WE. Dosimetry for pediatric FDG molecular imaging studies. 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. 2017.
  2. Marshall E, Rajderkar D, Brown JL, Stepusin E, Bolch WE. Creation of a pediatric organ dose database for diagnostic fluoroscopy procedures. 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. 2017.
  3. Li Y, O’Reilly S, Plyku D, Treves ST, Fahey F, Cao X, Brown JL, Sexton-Stallone B, Bolch WE, Sgouros G, Frey EC. Towards weight-specific dosing based on objective image quality measures for 99mTc-DMSA SPECT. 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2018
  4. Li Y, O’Reilly S, Plyku D, Treves ST, Fahey F, Cao X, Brown JL, Sexton-Stallone B, Bolch WE, Sgouros G, Frey EC. Limitations of weight-based pediatric dosing guidelines in 99mTc-DMSA renal SPECT. 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2018.
  5. Marshall E, Rajderkar D, Brown JL, Stepusin E, Borrego D, Bolch WE. Development of an organ dose coefficient database for pediatric diagnostic fluoroscopy studies: Understanding the epidemiological application. 2018 Conference on Radiation & Health. 2018
  6. Tran T, Brown JL, Borrego D, Balter S. Brain and eye lens doses to operators in interventional radiology: A monte carlo study using hybrid computational phantoms. 2018 Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society. 2018.
  7. Brown JL, Kwak D, Duncan J, Bolch WE. Monte carlo reconstruction of organ dose in patients undergoing PICC and TIPS fluoroscopically guided interventions. 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. 2018
  8. Marshall E, Rajderkar D, Brown JL, Stepusin E, Borrego D, Bolch WE. A novel method to estimate radiation organ doses in pediatric fluoroscopy studies. 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. 2018.
  9. Li Y, Brown JL, O’Reilly S, Plyku D, Treves ST, Fahey FH, Sexton-Stallone B, Bolch WE, Sgouros G, Frey EC. Patient girth is better than weight for selecting administered activity in renal pediatric imaging. 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2019.
  10. Carter LM, Crawford TM, Sato T, Furuta T, Bolch WE, Brown JL, Kim CH, Choi C, Lewis JS. PARaDIM – A PHITS-based monte carlo tool for internal dosimetry. 2019 Biannual Meeting of the International Symposium on Radiological Science. 2019
  11. Brown JL, Li Y, Frey EC, Plyku D, Sgouros G, Fahey FH, Sexton-Stallone B, Cao X, Treves ST, Bolch WE. Pediatric S values for a multi-region brain model. 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2019.
  12. Plyku D, Sexton-Stallone B, Fahey F, Cao X, Goodkind A, Zurakowski D, Li Y, Ghaly M, Brown J, Bolch W, Frey E, Treves ST, Sgouros G. Determination of renal tc-99m DMSA pharmacokinetics in pediatric patients: Implications for current dosing guidelines in pediatric imaging. 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2019.
  13. Xu J, Brown JL, Li Y, Frey EC, Plyku D, Sgouros G, Fahey FH, Sexton-Stallone B, Cao X, Treves ST, Bolch WE. Toward improved pediatric dosing guidelines for tc-99m MAG3 renal function imaging. 2021 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2021.
  14. President BNC, Brown JL, Domal SL, Camilo CM, Bolch WE. S-values for brain subregions and lacrimal glands to support radionuclide and radiopharmaceutical dosimetry in the mesh-type ICRP reference phantoms. 2021 Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society. 2021
  15. Ocampo-Ramos JC, Carter LM, Kesner AL, Zanzonico PB, Brown JL, Bolch WE. Risk index: A rational alternative to effective dose for procedure optimization. 2021 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2021
  16. Li Y, Brown JL, Xu J, Chen J, Ghaly M, Cao X, Du Y, Fahey FH, Bolch WE, Sgouros G, Frey EC. Justification for and in-silico evaluation of new local-body-morphometry based dosing method for pediatric tc-99m DMSA SPECT. 2022 Annual Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2022