Dr Michael Douglass

School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences

College of Science


Date Position Institution name
2019 - ongoing Medical Physics Coordinator University of Adelaide
2014 - ongoing Affiliate Associate Lecturer University of Adelaide

Date Institution name Country Title
2010 - 2014 University of Adelaide Australia PhD
2009 - 2009 University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Science (Honours)
2006 - 2008 University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Science (Space Science and Astrophysics)

Year Citation
2026 Norris, S. A., Kron, T., Douglass, M. J. J., & Badawy, M. K. (2026). Survey evidence demands professional guidance on large language model use in medical physics. Physica Medica, 148, 3 pages.
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2025 Kennedy, A. C., Douglass, M. J. J., Gowda, R. V., & Santos, A. M. C. (2025). Robust optimisation genetic algorithm for HDR prostate brachytherapy including all major uncertainties. Physics In Medicine And Biology, 70(12, article no.125006), 1-13.
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2025 Douglass, M. J. J. (2025). Open-source tool for converting 3D mesh volumes into synthetic DICOM CT images for medical physics research. Physical And Engineering Sciences In Medicine, online(4), 1-14.
DOI Europe PMC1
2024 Kennedy, A. C., Douglass, M. J. J., & Santos, A. M. C. (2024). A robust evaluation of 49 high-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy treatment plans including all major uncertainties. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 25(2), 11 pages.
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2024 Bridger, C. A., Caraça Santos, A. M., Reich, P. D., & Douglass, M. J. J. (2024). An evaluation of consumer smartphones for generating bolus and surface mould applicators for radiation oncology. Medical Physics, 51(6), 4447-4457.
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2023 Douglass, M., Gorayski, P., Patel, S., & Santos, A. (2023). Synthetic cranial MRI from 3D optical surface scans using deep learning for radiation therapy treatment planning. Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 46(1), 367-375.
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2023 Kennedy, A. C., Douglass, M. J. J., & Santos, A. M. C. (2023). Being certain about uncertainties: a robust evaluation method for high-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy treatment plans including the combination of uncertainties. Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 46(3), 1115-1130.
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2022 Bridger, C. A., Reich, P. D., Caraça Santos, A. M., & Douglass, M. J. J. (2022). A dosimetric comparison of CT- and photogrammetry- generated 3D printed HDR brachytherapy surface applicators. Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 45(1), 125-134.
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2022 Douglass, M. J. J. (2022). Can optical scanning technologies replace
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printed medical devices in radiation oncology?. Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, 69(2), 139-142.

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2021 Douglass, M., Austin, A., Penfold, S., & Nguyen, G. T. (2021). Individualised selection of left‐sided breast cancer patients for proton therapy based on cost‐effectiveness. Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, 68(1), 44-51.
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2021 Keal, J., Santos, A., Penfold, S., & Douglass, M. (2021). Radiation Dose Calculation in 3D Heterogeneous Media Using Artificial Neural Networks.. Medical physics, 48(5), 2637-2645.
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2021 Bridger, C. A., Douglass, M. J. J., Reich, P. D., & Santos, A. M. C. (2021). Evaluation of camera settings for photogrammetric reconstruction of humanoid phantoms for EBRT bolus and HDR surface brachytherapy applications.. Physical and engineering sciences in medicine, 44(2), 457-471.
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2021 Douglass, M. J. J. (2021). Johns and Cunningham's The Physics of Radiology, Fifth edition. PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES IN MEDICINE, 44(2), 595-597.
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2021 Douglass, M. J. J., & Keal, J. A. (2021). DeepWL: Robust EPID based Winston-Lutz analysis using deep learning, synthetic image generation and optical path-tracing. Physica Medica, 89, 306-316.
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2020 Peukert, D., Kempson, I., Douglass, M., & Bezak, E. (2020). Gold nanoparticle enhanced proton therapy: A Monte Carlo simulation of the effects of proton energy, nanoparticle size, coating material and coating thickness on dose and radiolysis yield.. Medical physics, 47(2), 651-661.
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2020 Austin, A., Douglass, M., Nguyen, G., & Penfold, S. (2020). Patient selection for proton therapy: A radiobiological fuzzy Markov model incorporating robust plan analysis. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 43(2), 493-503.
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2020 Peukert, D., Kempson, I., Douglass, M., & Bezak, E. (2020). Modelling Spatial Scales of Dose Deposition and Radiolysis Products from Gold Nanoparticle Sensitisation of Proton Therapy in A Cell: From Intracellular Structures to Adjacent Cells.. Int J Mol Sci, 21(12), 1-19.
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2020 Douglass, M. J. (2020). Book Review: Hands-on Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and Tensorflow, by Aurélien Géron. Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 43(3), 1135-1136.
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2019 Peukert, D., Incerti, S., Kempson, I., Douglass, M., Karamitros, M., Baldacchino, G., & Bezak, E. (2019). Validation and investigation of reactive species yields of Geant4-DNA chemistry models. Medical Physics, 46(2), 983-998.
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2019 Turnbull, T., Douglass, M., Williamson, N. H., Howard, D., Bhardwaj, R., Lawrence, M., . . . Kempson, I. M. (2019). Cross-correlative single-cell analysis reveals biological mechanisms of nanoparticle radiosensitization. ACS Nano, 13(5), 5077-5090.
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2019 Douglass, M., & Santos, A. (2019). Application of Optical Photogrammetry in Radiation Oncology: HDR Surface Mold Brachytherapy. Brachytherapy, 18(5), 689-700.
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2019 Dylan, P., Kempson, I., Douglass, M., & Bezak, E. (2019). Gold Nanoparticle Enhanced Proton Therapy: Monte Carlo Modeling of Reactive Species' Distributions Around a Gold Nanoparticle and the Effects of Nanoparticle Proximity and Clustering. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 20(17), 1-22.
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2019 Austin, A. M., Douglass, M. J. J., Nguyen, G. T., Dalfsen, R., Le, H., Gorayski, P., . . . Penfold, S. N. (2019). Cost-effectiveness of proton therapy in treating base of skull chordoma. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 42(4), 1091-1098.
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2019 Forster, J. C., Douglass, M. J. J., Phillips, W. M., & Bezak, E. (2019). Stochastic multicellular modeling of x-ray irradiation, DNA damage induction, DNA free-end misrejoining and cell death. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 18888.
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2018 Peukert, D., Kempson, I., Douglass, M., & Bezak, E. (2018). Metallic nanoparticle radiosensitisation of ion radiotherapy: a review. Physica Medica, 47, 121-128.
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2018 Douglass, M. (2018). Eric J. Hall and Amato J. Giaccia: Radiobiology for the radiologist. Australasian Physical &amp; Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 41(4), 1129-1130.
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2018 Forster, J., Douglass, M., Phillips, W., & Bezak, E. (2018). Monte Carlo Simulation of the Oxygen Effect in DNA Damage Induction by Ionizing Radiation. Radiation Research, 190(3), 248-261.
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2017 Forster, J. C., Douglass, M. J. J., Harriss-Phillips, W. M., & Bezak, E. (2017). Development of an in silico stochastic 4D model of tumor growth with angiogenesis. Medical Physics, 44(4), 1563-1576.
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2017 Forster, J. C., Harriss-Phillips, W. M., Douglass, M. J., & Bezak, E. (2017). A review of the development of tumor vasculature and its effects on the tumor microenvironment. Hypoxia, 5, 21-32.
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2017 Turnbull, T., Douglass, M., Bezak, E., Thierry, B., & Kempson, I. (2017). An image processing application for quantitative cross-correlative microscopy for large cell-populations: a gold nanoparticle radiosensitisation study. Powder Diffraction, 32(S2), S33-S37.
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2017 Forster, J., Douglass, M., Harriss-Phillips, W., & Bezak, E. (2017). Simulation of head and neck cancer oxygenation and doubling time in a 4D cellular model with angiogenesis. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 11 pages.
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2017 Austin, A. M., Douglass, M. J. J., Nguyen, G. T., & Penfold, S. N. (2017). A radiobiological Markov simulation tool for aiding decision making in proton therapy referral. Physica Medica, 44, 72-82.
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2016 Incerti, S., Douglass, M., Penfold, S., Guatelli, S., & Bezak, E. (2016). Review of Geant4-DNA applications for micro and nanoscale simulations. Physica Medica, 32(10), 1187-1200.
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2015 Douglass, M., Bezak, E., & Penfold, S. (2015). Development of a radiation track structure clustering algorithm for the prediction of DNA DSB yields and radiation induced cell death in Eukaryotic cells. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 60(8), 3217-3236.
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2015 Douglass, M., Penfold, S., & Bezak, E. (2015). Preliminary investigation of microdosimetric track structure physics models in Geant4-DNA and RITRACKS. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2015, 968429-1-968429-8.
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2015 Turnbull, T., Douglass, M., Paterson, D., Bezak, E., Thierry, B., & Kempson, I. (2015). Relating intercellular variability in nanoparticle uptake with biological consequence: a quantitative x-ray fluorescence study for radiosensitization of cells. Analytical Chemistry, 87(21), 10693-10697.
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2013 Douglass, M., Bezak, E., & Penfold, S. (2013). Monte Carlo investigation of the increased radiation deposition due to gold nanoparticles using kilovoltage and megavoltage photons in a 3D randomized cell model. Medical Physics, 40(7), 1-9.
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2012 Douglass, M., Bezak, E., & Penfold, S. (2012). Development of a randomized 3D cell model for Monte Carlo microdosimetry simulations. Medical Physics, 39(6), 3509-3519.
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Year Citation
2014 Douglass, M. J. (2014). Development of an Integrated Stochastic Radiobiological Model for Electromagnetic Particle Interactions in a 4D Cellular Geometry. (PhD Thesis, University of Adelaide).

Year Citation
2025 Douglass, M. (2025). An Open-Source Tool for Converting 3D Mesh volumes into Synthetic DICOM CT Images for Medical Physics Research.
DOI
2024 Kennedy, A. C., Douglass, M. J. J., & Santos, A. M. C. (2024). Implementation of a robust optimisation genetic algorithm for HDR prostate brachytherapy including all major uncertainties.
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2024 Kennedy, A. C., Douglass, M. J. J., Gowda, R. V., & Santos, A. M. C. (2024). A robust optimisation genetic algorithm for HDR prostate brachytherapy including all major uncertainties II: Algorithm evaluation on 49 patients.
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2024 Kennedy, A. C., Douglass, M. J. J., Gowda, R., & Santos, A. M. C. (2024). A robust optimisation genetic algorithm for HDR prostate brachytherapy including all major uncertainties II: Algorithm evaluation on 49 patients.
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2024 Kennedy, A., Douglass, M., & Santos, A. (2024). A robust optimisation genetic algorithm for HDR prostate brachytherapy including all major uncertainties I: Algorithm implementation.
DOI Europe PMC1
2022 Douglass, M., Gorayski, P., Patel, S., & Santos, A. (2022). Predicting cranial MRI anatomy from 3D optical surface scans using deep learning for radiation therapy treatment planning.
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Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2021 - 2024 Co-Supervisor Robust Evaluation and Optimisation for Treatment Planning in High-Dose-Rate Prostate Brachytherapy Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Andrew Kennedy
2019 - 2025 Principal Supervisor Evaluating the Clinical Feasibility of Photogrammetry in Radiation Oncology: A Comparative Study of 3D-Printed Bolus and Brachytherapy Surface Applicators Against Conventional CT-Based Workflows Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Corey Andrew Bridger
2019 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Assessment of Adaptive Radiotherapy Workflows for Head and Neck Cancer Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Mr George Antoniou
2016 - 2019 Co-Supervisor A radiobiological Markov model for aiding decision making in proton therapy referral Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Annabelle Mary Austin
2015 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Spatio-Temporal, Multicellular and Monte Carlo Track-Based Model of Radiotherapy In Silico Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Jake Forster

Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
2016 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Metallic Nanoparticle Radiosensitisation of Proton Radiotherapy University of South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dylan Peukert

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2018 - ongoing Member ACPSEM Particle Therapy Working Group ACPSEM Australia

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