Sarah Weppler

Medical Physicist

Division of Medical Physics

PhD, Physics and Astronomy – Specialization in Radiation Oncology Physics

University of Calgary, 2020

MSc, Mathematics and Statistics

University of Calgary, 2015

BSc (Hons), Applied Mathematics

University of Calgary, 2013

Contact information

Research and teaching

Research areas

  • Clinical outcomes
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • Adaptive radiation therapy
  • MR-linac

Publications

  1. Frederick A, Quirk S, Grendarova P, van Dyke L, Meyer T, Weppler S, Roumeliotis R. An updated approach for deriving PTV margins using image guidance and deformable dose accumulation. Phys Med Biol. 2022;67(7):075004 (11 pages).
  2. Yarschenko AH, Yannitsos DH, Weppler S, Barbera L, Quon H, Sun Q, Smith W. Comparing the M.D. Anderson Symptom and Dysphagia Inventories for Head and Neck Cancer Patients. Laryngoscope. 2022;00:1-8. (8 pages).
  3. Weppler S, Quon H, Schinkel C, Yarschenko A, Barbera L, Harjai N, Smith W. Patient-Reported Outcomes-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer. Front Oncol. 2021;11:4103 (11 pages).
  4. Weppler S, Quon H, Schinkel C, Ddamba J, Harjai N, Vigal C, Beers CA, Van Dyke L, Smith W. Determining Clinical Patient Selection Guidelines for Head and Neck Adaptive Radiation Therapy Using Random Forest Modelling and a Novel Simplification Heuristic. Front Oncol. 2021;11:1889 (13 pages).
  5. Weppler S, Schinkel C, Kirkby C, Smith W. Lasso logistic regression to derive workflow-specific algorithm performance requirements as demonstrated for head and neck cancer deformable image registration in adaptive radiation therapy. Phys Med Biol. 2020;65(19):195013 (12 pages).
  6. Weppler S, Schinkel C, Kirkby C, Smith W. Data clustering to select clinically-relevant test cases for algorithm benchmarking and characterization. Phys Med Biol. 2020;65(6):055014 (12 pages).
  7. Beers CA, Smith WL, Weppler S, Schinkel C, Quon H. Radiation Oncology Device Approval in the United States and Canada. Cureus. 2019:11(4):e4351 (18 pages).
  8. Weppler S, Quon H, Banerjee R, Schinkel C, Smith W. Framework for the quantitative assessment of adaptive radiation therapy protocols. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2018;19(6):26-34.
  9. Guebert A, Conroy L, Weppler S, Alghamdi M, Conway J, Harper L, Phan T, Olivotto I, Smith W, Quirk S. Clinical implementation of AXB from AAA for breast: plan quality and sub-volume analysis. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2018;19(3):243-250.
  10. Weppler S, Momin S, Villarreal-Barajas JE, Khan R. Comprehensive fluence delivery optimization with multileaf collimation. Biomed Phys Eng Express. 2018;4(2):025021 (16 pages).
  11. Zarepisheh M, Shakourifar M, Trigila G, Ghomi PS, Couzens S†, Abebe A, Norena L, Shang W, Jiang SB, Zinchenko Y. A Moment-Based Approach for DVH-Guided Radiotherapy Treatment Plan Optimization. Phys Med Biol. 2013;58(6):1869-1887.