Department / Division:
Radiology / Nuclear Medicine

Address:
DUMC 3949
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-684-7647

Office Telephone:
919-684-7631

Fax Telephone:
919-684-7167

• MD, Dartmouth Medical School (New Hampshire), 1990

• Internal Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (New Hampshire), 1990-1991
• Diagnostic Radiology, Deaconess Hospital - Harvard (Massachusetts), 1992-1996

• Nuclear Radiology, Deaconess Hospital (Massachusetts), 1995-1996
• Cross-Sectional Imaging, Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Massachusetts), 1996-1997
• Interventional/Intraoperative MRI, Brigham and Women's Hospital (Massachusetts), 1997-1998

• PhD, Engineering Sciences, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire), 1990

Clinical Interests:
Oncologic imaging, PET/CT, image processing, hyperthermia, radiation therapy treatment planning, radionuclide therapy

Research Interests:
1. Functional imaging techniques, particularly radionuclide imaging, positron emission tomography (PET), and PET/CT.  Multimodality imaging techniques, image registration.

2. Hyperthermia, thermal ablation of tumors.

3. Brain tumor therapy:  Image- guided tumor resection, monoclonal antibody brachytherapy.

Representative Publications:
Wong TZ, Kettenbach J, Silverman SG, Schwartz RB, Morrison PR, Kacher DF, Jolesz FA. MR imaging guidance for minimally invasive procedures, in Surgical Applications of Energy, Thomas P. Ryan, Ed., Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 3249, pp. 162-170 (1998). (1998)

Schwartz RB, Hsu L, Kacher DF, Wong TZ, Alexander E 3rd, Okon S, Guttmann CR, Black PM, Kelley RA, Moriarty T, Martin C, Isbister HG, Cahill CD, Spaulding SA, Jolesz FA. Intraoperative dynamic MRI: localization of sites of brain tumor recurrence after high-dose radiotherapy. J Magn Reson Imaging 8(5): -1085-1089 (1998). (1998)

Wong TZ, Lateiner JS, Mahon TG, Zuo CS, Buff BL. Stereoscopically-guided characterization of 3-dimensional dynamic breast MR images. Radiology 198:288-291 (1996) (1996)

Roberts DW, Coughlin CT, Wong TZ, Fratkin JD, Douple EB, Strohbehn JW. Interstitial hyperthermia and iridium brachytherapy in the treatment of malignant glioma: a phase I clinical trial. J. Neurosurgery 64: 581-587 (1986). (1986)

Coughlin CT, Wong TZ, Strohbehn JW, Colacchio TA, Sutton JE, Belch RZ, Douple EB. Intra-operative interstitial microwave-induced hyperthermia and brachytherapy. Int. J. Radiation Oncol. Biol. Phys. 11:167-1678 (1985). (1985)