Dr. Jae Won Jung

Associate Professor

Office Location: Austin 130
Telephone: (252) 328-6934
Email: jungj@ecu.edu

PhD in Physics, Texas A&M University, 2007

Interests

• Radiation detection and measurement
• Dosimetric studies of radiation therapy
• Biomedical modeling including organ segmentation, tumor tracking, and risk assessment

Research Projects

Dr. Jae Won Jung his group’s research focus is on the inventive field of medical and health physics.  They use various techniques and skills including Monte Carlo simulation, advanced imaging and dosimetry, and radiation risk analysis to understand how radiation affects humans.  Projects involve 4-D dose reconstruction during radiotherapy, secondary cancer risk assessment after radiation treatment, heart structure modeling, tumor tracking in Cyberknife, and microsphere brachytherapy. There are mainly graduate-level projects in the lab and numerous students have presented their research with Dr. Won in the local meetings, international conferences, or peer-reviewed journals.

Courses Taught

• PHYS 1250 General Physics I
• PHYS 6700 Health Physics
• PHYS 6710 Nuclear Medicine Physics
• PHYS 6718 Therapeutic Radiological Physics
• PHYS 7730 Radiation Instrumentation
• PHYS 7740 Special Problems in Radiation Dosimetry and Modeling