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R. Scott Brock
Department of Radiation OncologyVCU Health System
401 College Street
PO Box 980058
Richmond, VA 23298-0058
(804)628-2497
rbrock@mcvh-vcu.edu
Education
| 2007 | PhD Biomedical Physics, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, July 2007 |
| Dissertation: “Modeling of Light Scattering by Biological Cells Using a Finite-Difference Time Domain Method” | |
| 2000 | BS Physics, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC |
| 2000 | BA Mathematics, conc. Computer Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC |
Experience
| 05/08–pres | Post Doctoral Scholar, VCU Health System |
| 01/08–05/08 | Instructor, East Carolina University |
| 08/00–01/08 | Research Assistant, East Carolina University |
| Investigated light interaction with biological materials using various computational methods, including the Finite-Difference Time Domain(FDTD), diffusion approximation, and Monte Carlo methods. Duties included creating and revising programs, testing programs, acquiring and analyzing data, presenting findings, and setup and maintenance of computational clusters. | |
| 08/00–12/03 | Teaching Assistant, East Carolina University |
| Laboratory instructor for General Physics, Astronomy, and Acoustics laboratories. Duties included short lecture, laboratory preparation, demonstrations, assisting students, grading laboratory reports, and creating and grading final exams. |
Research Projects
- Finite-Difference Time Domain simulation of light interaction with biological cells
- Designed and implemented portable, scalable, parallel FDTD code
- Acquired and analyzed data for sphere, coated sphere, red blood cell, and NALM6 cell models
- Created and delivered conference presentations
- Creating cell models from confocal images
- Designed and implemented portable code to create cell models from confocal images
- Created NALM6 and HL60 cell models for FDTD simulation
- Monte Carlo simulation of light in turbid media
- Designed and implemented portable, parallel wrapper code for sequential Monte Carlo code
- Acquired and analyzed data for various incident beam and material parameters
- Diffusion Approximation of light in turbid media
- Designed and implemented code to determine the reflectance from turbid media using the diffusion approximation and the radiative transfer equation
- Acquired and analyzed data for various incident beam and media parameters
- Study of vortices in stenotic fluid-flow channels
- Designed and implemented code to determine the frequency and lifetime of sounds emitted from stenotic-flow channels
- Acquired and analyzed data for various stenosis and flow parameters
- Analysis of pseudo-random number generators for suitability of use in parallel Monte Carlo simulations
- Analyzed several RNGs to determine correlation and period
- Modified RNGs for parallel computing use and to extend the period
- Determined the RNG which was most suitable for parallel Monte Carlo simulations
Computing Skills and Experience
- Proficient with C/C++, Fortran77/90, Mathematica, and shell programming
- Proficient with Message Passing Interface(MPI) library
- Experienced writing portable, high-performance software
- Experienced using IBM Power3/4, Cray SV1, SGI Origin2000, Compaq Alpha, and Dell Xeon supercomputers
- Working knowledge of Latex, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSL
- Skilled using SigmaPlot, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice
- Installed, maintained, and administered parallel computing clusters
- Configured Gentoo and Red Hat Linux operating systems
- Network configuration over managed and unmanaged switches
- Network tunnel configuration to create a large virtual cluster using remote clusters
- Cluster of 30 Intel Pentium II personal computers
- Cluster of 8 dual 32-bit and 8 dual 64-bit Intel Xeon 1U units
Awards, Honors, and Service
- Among 150 students in the Southeastern US chosen for “Lunch with the Laureates” at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, 2005
- Vice-President of the ECU Physics Graduate Student Association, 2003
- Represented ECU at the ACM Mid-Atlantic Regional Programming Contest, 1999, 2000
- Awarded first place in the ECU programming contest, 1999, 2000
- Awarded five ECU Graduate School travel grants, 2003, 2005, 2005, 2006, 2006
Professional Societies
- Member of the American Physical Society
- Member of the Optical Society of America
Patent Application
- “Methods, systems, and computer program products for analyzing cardiovascular sounds using eigenfunctions”, D. W. Pravica, O. W. Day, Jr., R. S. Brock, U. S. Patent Application 20050234349
Peer-Reviewed Publications
- , “A diffusion solution for modeling of reflectance images under a full-field illumination condition”, Journal of the Optical Society of America A (submitted)
- , “Numerical study of reflectance imaging of turbid media using a fast Monte Carlo method”, Medical Physics (accepted)
- , “Angle-resolved Mueller matrix study of light scattering by B-cells at three wavelengths of 442, 633 and 850nm”, Journal of Biomedical Optics (accepted)
- , “Modeling of light scattering by single red blood cells with the FDTD method”, Optics of Biological Particles, edited by A. Hoekstra, G. Videen and V. Maltsev, 213–242 (Springer, 2006)
- , “Effect of detailed cell structure on light scattering distribution: FDTD study of a B-cell with 3D structure constructed from confocal images”, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 102, 25–36 (2006)
- , “Evaluation of a parallel FDTD code and application to modeling of light scattering by deformed red blood cells”, Optics Express, 13, 5279–5292 (2005)
- , “Stable stationary vortices and traveling oscillatory vortices in a stenotic fluid-flow channel”, Phys. Rev. E, 72, 067303 (2005)
- , “Determination of complex refractive index of polystyrene microspheres from 370 to 1610nm”, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 48, 4165–4172 (2003)
Proceedings Publications and Conference Presentations
- , “Modeling of the internal optical structure of the nuclei of B-cells”, OSA Annual Meeting, presentation FTuE2, Rochester, NY (2006)
- , “Determination of intracellular distributions of refractive index of B-cells and HL60 cells at 442, 633 and 850nm”, OSA Annual Meeting, presentation FTuQ1, Rochester, NY (2006)
- , “Fast modeling of reflectance image of turbid medium with full-field illumination”, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), invited presentation, Cambridge, MA (2006)
- , “3D Reconstruction of B-lymphocytes with confocal images and parallel FDTD simulations of light scattering”, OSA Biomedical Optics Conference, presentation MC8, Miami, FL (2006)
- , “Angle-resolved Mueller matrix study of light scattering by B-cells and HL-60 cells at three wavelengths of 442, 633 and 850nm”, OSA Biomedical Optics Conference, presentation ME73, Miami, FL (2006)
- , “Numerical simulations of light scattering from blood cells using FDTD method”, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Optics of Biological Particles, Novosibirsk, Russia (2005)
- , “Parallel FDTD simulation of light scattering by three-dimensional B-cells at different phases of cell cycle”, OSA Annual Meeting, presentation JWA45, Tuscon, AZ (2005)
- , “Simulation of light scattering by a pressure deformed red blood cell with a parallel FDTD method”, SPIE Proceedings 5702, 69–75 (2005)
- , “Quantitative modeling of skin images using parallel Monte Carlo methods”, SPIE Proceedings 5693, 82–87 (2005)
- , “Modeling of light scattering by B-cells using a parallel FDTD method”, OSA Annual Meeting, presentation FTuG49, Rochester, NY (2004)
- , “Optimization of PDT treatment with multiple laser beams using a parallel Monte Carlo code”, AAPM Annual Meeting, poster PO-T-247, San Diego, CA (2003)