Andrei Pugachev, Ph.D.

  • Medical Physicist
  • Assistant Professor, Radiation Medicine, School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Pugachev completed his undergraduate education in his home country of Russia, and his doctorate in California. He is active in both OHSU's Radiation Medicine department and Diagnostic Radiation.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • Ph.D., 2002, Stanford University

  • Fellowship

    • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 2004

Memberships and associations:

  • AAPM

Areas of interest

  • Clinical and pre-clinical validation of experimental radiolabeled agents for diagnostic and therapeutic applications
  • Clinical implementation of radionuclide dosimetry for nuclear medicine therapy
  • Developing methods for patient positioning and target verification using in-room mobile CT  
  • Applications of positron emission tomography in radiation therapy
  • Developing approaches to pre-clinical validation of experimental radiolabeled agents
  • Advancements of therapeutical medical physics and nuclear medical physics clinical practice
  • Use of PET for radiation treatment planning, including multimodality image registration and PET image segmentation
  • Dosimetry for radionuclide therapy, including patient-specific dose estimates, normal tissue tolerance limits, and absorbed dose calculation for combined Radionuclide and External beam treatments

Publications

Publications