Keith Sowards, M.S.

Clinical Physicist, Assistant Professor

Clinical Physicist, Assistant Professor

 

Education/Training

Institution and LocationDegreeDateField of Study
University of KentuckyM.S.1999Health Physics
University of KentuckyB.S.1995Physics

Positions and Honors

Positions and EmploymentDate

Clinical Physicist
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY

August 2002 – Present

 

Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order)

  1. A.S. Meigooni, K. Sowards, M. Soldano:  Dosimetric Characteristics of the InterSource 103Palladium    Brachytherapy Source. Medical Physics 27(5), 1093-1100 (2000).
  2. C. Popescu, J. Wise, K. Sowards, A.S. Meigooni, and G. S. Ibbott:  Dosimetric Characteristics of the PharmaSeed TM Model BT-125-1 Source. Medical Physics 27(9), 2174-2281 (2000).
  3. Ali S. Meigooni, K. Sowards, D. Gearheart:  Experimental Determination of Dosimetric Characteristics of Best 125I Brachytherapy Source. Medical Physics 27(9), 2168-2173 (2000).
  4. D. Gearheart, A. Drogin, K. Sowards, A.S. Meigooni, and G.S. Ibbott:  Dosimetric Characteristics of a New 125I Brachytherapy Source. Medical Physics 27(10), 2278-2285 (2000).
  5. A.S. Meigooni, S.A. Dini, K. Sowards, J.L. Hayes, and A. Al-Otoom:  Experimental Determination of the TG-43 Dosimetric Characteristics of EchoSeed™ Model (6733 Brachytherapy Source. Medical Physics 29(6), 939-942 (2002).
  6. A. Meigooni, K. Sowards, G. Myron:  Evaluation of the QZ Veridose Patient Monitoring Phantom. Medical Dosimetry Journal 29:49-54 (2003).
  7. A. Meigooni, G. Myron, K. Sowards:  Evaluation of the Veridose Invivo Dosimetry System. Medical Dosimetry 27:29-36 (2002).
  8. A.S. Meigooni, M.M. Yoe-Sein, A.Y., Al-Otoom, and K.T. Sowards:  Determination of the Dosimetric Characteristics of InterSource 125Iodine Brachytherapy Source. Applied Rad & Isotopes 56:589-599 (2002).
  9. Ali S. Meigooni, Joshua Hayes, Hualin Zhang, and Keith Sowards:  Experimental Determination of IsoAid ADVANTAGE™ 125I Brachytherapy Source. Medical Physics 29(9):2152-2158 (2002).
  10. A.S. Meigooni, Z. Bharucha, M. Yoe-Sein, and K.T. Sowards:  Dosimetric characteristics of the Best® double-wall 103Pd brachytherapy source. Med Phys 28(12):2568-2575 (2001).
  11. K.T. Sowards, A.S. Meigooni:  A Monte Carlo evaluation of the dosimetric characteristics of the Best ® Model 2301 125I Brachytherapy Source. Applied Radiation and Isotopes 57:327-333 (2002).
  12. K.T. Sowards, A.S. Meigooni:  A Monte Carlo evaluation of the dosimetric characteristics of the Amersham model 6733 125I brachytherapy source. Brachytherapy Vol. 1(4):227-232 (2002).
  13. Erratum: “Experimental and theoretical determination of dosimetric characteristics of IsoAid ADVANTAGE™ 125I brachytherapy source” [Med. Phys. 29, 2152–2158 (2002)], Med. Phys. 30, 279 (2003).
  14. K.T. Sowards: Monte Carlo Dosimetric Characterization of the IsoAid ADVANTAGETM 103Pd Brachytherapy Source. Journal of the American College of Medical Physics, Vol 8, No 2, (2007).
  15. K.T. Sowards, C.M. Luerman, A.S. Meigooni:  Evaluation of the dose distribution for prostate implants using various 125I and 103Pd sources. Med Phys 36(4):1452-1458 (2009).