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Catherine Coolens

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ProfessorDepartment of Radiation OncologyUniversity of Toronto

Catherine Coolens

Professor

Department of Radiation Oncology

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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12 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 5 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (2 NSERC, 1 CIHR), most recently in 2016.

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Education

PhD, Medical Physics
MSc, Radiation Physics
MSc, Physics

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Research

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Cancer Cancer diagnosis Radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging Clinical oncology

Latest papers

Biologically Effective Dose and Dose Rate in Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Advances in radiation oncology · 2026
Author Correction: Multi-institutional atlas of brain metastases informs spatial modeling for precision imaging and personalized therapy.
Nature communications · 2025
Multi-institutional atlas of brain metastases informs spatial modeling for precision imaging and personalized therapy.
Nature communications · 2025

All 38 publications

Latest funding

Generative Adversarial Networks for MRI-driven Radiation Therapy
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$604,352
Transport modeling for multi-modality contrast-enhanced imaging
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$189,000
Clinical Investigation of Frameless, Adaptive, Image-guided Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
CIHR · 2015 · Co-investigator
$264,656

All 6 grants and awards

38 publications.

Biologically Effective Dose and Dose Rate in Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Jomy J, Lin KX, Sharma R, Lu R, Kaushal S, Santiago AT, Keilty D, Shultz D, Coolens C, Cusimano MD, Zadeh G, Hodaie M, Kalia SK, Nassiri F, Meng Y, Tsang DS, Yan M

Advances in radiation oncology2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.adro.2025.101932 PMID: 41362409

Author Correction: Multi-institutional atlas of brain metastases informs spatial modeling for precision imaging and personalized therapy.

Barrios J, Porter E, Capaldi DPI, Upadhaya T, Chen WC, Perks JR, Apte A, Aristophanous M, LoCastro E, Hsu D, Stone PH, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Valdes G, Jiang F, Maddalena M, Ballangrud A, Prezelski K, Lin H, Sun JY, Aldin MAK, Chau OW, Ziemer B, Seaberg M, Sneed PK, Nakamura JL, Boreta LC, Fogh SE, Raleigh DR, Chew J, Vasudevan H, Cha S, Hess C, Fragoso R, Shultz DB, Pike L, Hervey-Jumper SL, Tsang DS, Theodosopoulos P, Cooke D, Benedict SH, Sheng K, Seuntjens J, Coolens C, Deasy JO, Braunstein S, Morin O

Nature communications2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60522-w PMID: 40456774

Multi-institutional atlas of brain metastases informs spatial modeling for precision imaging and personalized therapy.

Nature communications2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59584-7 PMID: 40374598

Treatment Planning Methods for Dose Painting by Numbers Treatment in Gamma Knife Radiosurgery.

Tham BZ, Aleman DM, Nordström H, Nygren N, Coolens C

Advances in radiation oncology2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.adro.2024.101534 PMID: 39104874

Physical dose validation of dynamic treatment for Gamma Knife radiosurgery.

Tham BZ, Aleman DM, Heaton RK, Nordström H, Coolens C

Medical physics2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/mp.17034 PMID: 38517433

Repeatability and reproducibility of prostate apparent diffusion coefficient values on a 1.5 T magnetic resonance linear accelerator.

Fernando N, Tadic T, Li W, Patel T, Padayachee J, Santiago AT, Dang J, Chung P, Gutierrez E, Coolens C, Taylor E, Winter JD

Physics and imaging in radiation oncology2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.phro.2024.100570 PMID: 38544680

Plan Assessment Metrics for Dose Painting in Stereotactic Radiosurgery.

Tham BZ, Aleman D, Nordström H, Nygren N, Coolens C

Advances in radiation oncology2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.adro.2023.101281 PMID: 37415903

Using a Nominal Group Technique to Develop a Science Communication Curriculum for Health Professionals and Clinical Researchers.

Giuliani ME, Papadakos T, Coolens C, Fregnani J, Gebhardt P, Julius A, Pramesh CS, Quartey NK, Papadakos J

Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education2023

DOI: 10.1007/s13187-023-02282-z PMID: 36930438

Recommendations for improved reproducibility of ADC derivation on behalf of the Elekta MRI-linac consortium image analysis working group.

Bisgaard ALH, Keesman R, van Lier ALHMW, Coolens C, van Houdt PJ, Tree A, Wetscherek A, Romesser PB, Tyagi N, Lo Russo M, Habrich J, Vesprini D, Lau AZ, Mook S, Chung P, Kerkmeijer LGW, Gouw ZAR, Lorenzen EL, van der Heide UA, Schytte T, Brink C, Mahmood F

Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2023.109803 PMID: 37437609

Assessment of intra-fraction motion during frameless image guided Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery.

Li W, Bootsma G, Shultz D, Laperriere N, Millar BA, Cho YB, Jaffray DA, Chung C, Coolens C

Physics and imaging in radiation oncology2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.phro.2023.100415 PMID: 36718356

Generative Adversarial Networks for MRI-driven Radiation Therapy

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Stanescu, Teodor; Chan, Timothy; Hosni Abdalaty, Ali

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Automation; Deep Learning; Generative Adversarial Networks; Image Synthesis; Mr-Linac Systems; Mri-Guided Radiation Therapy; Mri-Only Radiotherapy; Online Adaptive Radiotherapy; Synthetic Ct

$604,352

Transport modeling for multi-modality contrast-enhanced imaging

Principal investigatorNSERC2016Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Coolens, Catherine

$189,000

Clinical Investigation of Frameless, Adaptive, Image-guided Gamma Knife Radiosurgery

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Operating Grant: Industry-partnered Collaborative Research

Principal investigators: Chung, Caroline

Keywords: Adaptive Treatment; Brain Tumor; Cancer; Image-Guided; Metastases; Palliation; Personalized Medicine; Radiation; Radiosurgery; Real-Time Monitoring

$264,656

Image-based quantitative assessment of tumor hypoxia

Principal investigatorCIHR2014Operating Grant: Quantitative Imaging for Responses to Cancer Therapies

Principal investigators: Jaffray, David A; Coolens, Catherine; Dhani, Neesha C; Hedley, David W; Joshua, Anthony; Lee, Ting-Yim; Milosevic, Michael; Palma, David; Valliant, John F; Wouters, Bradly; Yeung, Ivan Wai Tong

Keywords: Quantitative Assessment

$1,923,621

Validation framework for 4D perfusion computed tomography

Principal investigatorNSERC2010Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Coolens, Catherine

$100,000

Radiation Therapy and Sorafenib for Primary and Metastatic Liver Cancer

Co-investigatorCIHR2009Operating Grant: Industry-partnered Collaborative Research - Rx&D partner

Principal investigators: Dawson, Laura A

Keywords: Anti-Angiogenic Therapy; Biosurrogates; Liver Cancer; Liver Metastases; Sbrt; Sorafenib; Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

$357,495

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Catherine Coolens

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Biologically Effective Dose and Dose Rate in Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Author Correction: Multi-institutional atlas of brain metastases informs spatial modeling for precision imaging and personalized therapy.

Multi-institutional atlas of brain metastases informs spatial modeling for precision imaging and personalized therapy.

Treatment Planning Methods for Dose Painting by Numbers Treatment in Gamma Knife Radiosurgery.

Physical dose validation of dynamic treatment for Gamma Knife radiosurgery.

Repeatability and reproducibility of prostate apparent diffusion coefficient values on a 1.5&#xa0;T magnetic resonance linear accelerator.

Plan Assessment Metrics for Dose Painting in Stereotactic Radiosurgery.

Using a Nominal Group Technique to Develop a Science Communication Curriculum for Health Professionals and Clinical Researchers.

Recommendations for improved reproducibility of ADC derivation on behalf of the Elekta MRI-linac consortium image analysis working group.

Assessment of intra-fraction motion during frameless image guided Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery.

Generative Adversarial Networks for MRI-driven Radiation Therapy

Transport modeling for multi-modality contrast-enhanced imaging

Clinical Investigation of Frameless, Adaptive, Image-guided Gamma Knife Radiosurgery

Image-based quantitative assessment of tumor hypoxia

Validation framework for 4D perfusion computed tomography

Radiation Therapy and Sorafenib for Primary and Metastatic Liver Cancer

Frequent collaborators

Caroline Chung

Gelareh Zadeh

Warren Foltz

Alejandro Berlin

Mark Bernstein

Michael Milosevic

Jan Seuntjens

Mojgan Hodaie

David Jaffray

Andrew Hope

Kathy Han

Arjun Sahgal

Jennifer Croke

Teodor Stanescu

Ying Meng

Farshad Nassiri

Michael Yan

Jenna Sykes

Ivan Yeung

Sunit Das

Cynthia Menard

John Kim

Janet Papadakos

David Mikulis

Anand Swaminath

Gang Zheng

Geoffrey Liu

Michael Cusimano

Repeatability and reproducibility of prostate apparent diffusion coefficient values on a 1.5 T magnetic resonance linear accelerator.