Radiation Medicine

John Ashburn, Ph.D.
Clinical Medical Physicist
Chandler Medical Center
800 Rose Street
Lexington, KY 40536
Phone: (859)323-6486
Fax: (859)536-1688
Email: Ashburn@email.uky.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Characterization of Small X-ray Beamlets
• Biological Response to Low Energy Radiation
• Amplification of the By-Stander Effect

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D. North Carolina University, 1990
• M.S. North Carolina University, 1984

BOARD CERTIFICATION:

American Board of Radiology, Therapeutic Radiological Physics, 1998

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Ashburn JR, Cline RA, Van der Burgt PJM, Westerveld WB, Risley JS. "Experimentally Determined Density Matrices for H (n=3) Formed in H+ - He Collisions from 20 to 100 kev", Physical Review A, 41, 5:2407-2421, 1990.

Dini SA, Koona RA, Ashburn JR, Meigooni AS. “Dosimetric evaluation of GAFCHROMIC® XR type T and XR type R films”, Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 6, 1, p 114-134, (2005), Received the “PTW Award of Excellence for the JACMP Best Radiation Measurement Article in 2005.”