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  • I am a Research Associate Professor, and my research is focused on the development of novel instruments and methods for applications in experimental physics and radiation medicine. Educated as an engineer-physicist in the leading nuclear institution of the Soviet Union back in 1973-1982, then I gained a vast background in state-of-the-art research apparatuses simulation, design, and data analysis in high energy physics experiments at leading European research centers – Dubna Russia, INFN Italy, DESY Germany and CERN, Switzerland. Since 1999,  I am applying my expertise in novel system design and application to the medical field. As PI or co-Investigator on several   NIH-funded grants, in collaboration with other institutions and small businesses, I took part in developing novel instruments and methods for application in cancer radiation treatment. (12/2021)
  • My work in graduate school and my early career as a researcher at MEPhI were in the field of experimental nuclear and elementary particle physics. In particular, I participated in experiments on the production of mu-nucleonic atoms and a search for rare events such as proton and double-beta decays. Bashkirov VA, et al. Observation of μ - nucleonic chlorine atom. JETP Letters. 1979; 29(5):271. Bashkirov VA, et al. Project of an experiment on the search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 48Ca. [Other]. Moscow: Atomic Energy State Committee, USSR; 1983. 55 p. Available from: http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/16/016/16016572.pdf. DOI: IAE-3790/2.   At INFN, Italy, in 1990-1992 I participated in the development of a novel colorimetric scintillation registration technique at ultra-low temperature. Alessandrello A, Bashkirov VA, et al. Development of a thermal scintillating detector for double beta decay of 48Ga. Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements. 1992 July; 28A:233. Alessandrello A, Bashkirov VA, et al. A scintillating bolometer for experiments on double beta decay. Phys. Lett. B . 1998; B420:109.   While at DESY, Germany in 1992-1999, I participated in the detector maintenance, MC simulation, and data handling in the ZEUS experiment at HERA proton-positron collider. Visiting CERN in 1992-1996 as a guest scientist, I proposed a new method of particle identification by gaseous detectors, now applied in the ATLAS experiment on LHC at CERN. In the late '90s at DESY, I took a lead in the design of a new tracker and particle identifier for the ZEUS experiment upgrade. ZEUS collaboration. Measurement of total and partial photon proton cross-sections at 180-GeV center-of-mass energy. Z. Phys. C. 1994 March; 63:391. Bashkirov V, Dolgoshein B. Pion-Electron Separation by combined dE/dx and TR measurements in ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker. [Internet]. Geneva, Switzerland: CERN; 1995 January. 4 pages. Available from: http://inspirehep.net/record/1196219/files/indet-95-090.pdf. Other: ATLAS INDET-No-090,. Bashkirov V. Particle identification by relativistic rise of time above threshold in gaseous detectors. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A. 1999 August; 433(1-2):560. ZEUS collaboration. Measurement of the neutral current cross-section and F(2) structure function for deep inelastic e + p scattering at HERA. Eur.Phys.J. . 2001 May; C21:443.   Since 1999, I have been working at LLU on nanodosimetry and track structure studies. I participated in developing the world's first ion-counting nano-dosimeter. I invented a novel detector for positive ion registration, which is used presently as a basis for a new generation of nanodosimeters. Bashkirov V, Schulte R, Breskin A, Chechik R, Schemelinin S, Garty G, Wroe A, Sadrozinski H, Grosswendt B. Ion-counting nanodosemeter with particle tracking capabilities. Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2006;122(1-4):415-9. PubMed PMID: 17283009. Bashkirov V, Reinhard S, et all. Experimental Validation of Track Structure Models. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 2009 October; 56(5):2859. Bashkirov V, Schulte R, inventors. Loma Linda University Medical Center, assignee. Ion induced impact ionization detector and uses thereof. USA US20110133071 A1. 2011 June 09. Casiraghi M, Bashkirov VA, Hurley RF, Schulte RW. CHARACTERISATION OF A TRACK STRUCTURE IMAGING DETECTOR. Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2015 Apr 15; PubMed PMID: 25877534. In 2003, I started to work on proton computed tomography and radiography. I was one of the leaders in developing modern pCT scanner design concepts and doing R&D work that led to advanced pCT technology from the small prototype to the present Phase II preclinical pCT head-scanner. I particularly developed a new design concept of the energy/range detectors for imaging with charged particles. Schulte R, Bashkirov V, Li T, et al. Conceptual Design of a Proton Computed Tomography System for Applications in Proton Radiation Therapy. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE. 2004 June; 51(3):866. Schulte RW, Bashkirov V, Johnson R, Sadrozinski HF, Schubert KE. Overview of the LLUMC/UCSC/CSUSB Phase 2 Proton CT Project. Trans Am Nucl Soc. 2012;106:59-62. PubMed PMID: 24771878; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3999917. Vladimir A Bashkirov · Robert P. Johnson · Hartmut F.-W. Sadrozinski · Reinhard W. Schulte                      Development of proton computed tomography detectors for applications in hadron therapy   Aug 2015 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A 809 (120) Bashkirov VA, et al. Novel Scintillation Detector Design and Performance for Proton Radiography and Computed Tomography. Jan 2016. Medical Physics 43 (2), 664-674, PMID: 26843230, PMCID: PMC4714996       List of Selected (80 of more than 300) Published Work in My Bibliography: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/vladimir.bashkirov.1/bibliography/public/ More complete list is here https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vladimir_Bashkirov (03/1979)