Medical Physics -- November 2009

Medical Physics -- November 2009 Medical Physics -- November 2009

Volume 36, Issue 11, pp. 4845-5375

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POINT/COUNTERPOINT: "Only a single implanted marker is needed for tracking lung cancers for IGRT"

THERMOTHERAPY PHYSICS: "Accuracy of real time noninvasive temperature measurements using magnetic resonance thermal imaging in patients treated for high grade extremity soft tissue sarcomas"

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Optimized image acquisition for breast tomosynthesis in projection and reconstruction space"

MAGNETIC RESONANCE PHYSICS: "A high spatial resolution in vivo 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging technique for the human breast at 3 T"

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Accelerating Monte Carlo simulations of photon transport in a voxelized geometry using a massively parallel graphics processing unit"

RADIATION PROTECTION PHYSICS: "The effect of angular and longitudinal tube current modulations on the estimation of organ and effective doses in x-ray computed tomography"

NUCLEAR MEDICINE PHYSICS: "Discrete beta dose kernel matrices for nuclides applied in targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) calculated with MCNP5"

RADIATION THERAPY PHYSICS: "X-ray energy optimization in minibeam radiation therapy"

NUCLEAR MEDICINE PHYSICS: "Neurotransmission SPECT and MR registration combining mutual and gradient information"

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Projection space denoising with bilateral filtering and CT noise modeling for dose reduction in CT"

Cynthia M. McCollough

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Enhanced imaging of microcalcifications in digital breast tomosynthesis through improved image-reconstruction algorithms"

ULTRASOUND PHYSICS: "Breast density analysis for whole breast ultrasound images"

Jeon-Hor Chen

Chiun-Sheng Huang

Kuang-Che Chang Chien

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Experimental validation of Monte Carlo (MANTIS) simulated x-ray response of columnar CsI scintillator screens"

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Localizing spherical fiducials in C-arm based cone-beam CT"

MAGNETIC RESONANCE PHYSICS: "Impact of JPEG 2000 compression on lesion detection in MR imaging"

RADIATION THERAPY PHYSICS: "Longitudinal study using a diode phantom for helical tomotherapy IMRT QA"

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Liquid crystal display response time estimation for medical applications"

RADIATION THERAPY PHYSICS: "Kilovoltage beam Monte Carlo dose calculations in submillimeter voxels for small animal radiotherapy"

RADIATION THERAPY PHYSICS: "Comparing the accuracy of four-dimensional photon dose calculations with three-dimensional calculations using moving and deforming phantoms"

Yevgeniy Y. Vinogradskiy

RADIATION PROTECTION PHYSICS: "Skeletal dosimetry for external exposures to photons based on µCT images of spongiosa: Consideration of voxel resolution, cluster size, and medullary bone surfaces"

RADIATION PROTECTION PHYSICS: "A comparison of AAPM TG-108 PET/CT shielding recommendations to measurements in an oncology center"

RADIATION THERAPY PHYSICS: "Dosimetric comparison of ⁹⁰Y, ³²P, and ¹⁸⁶Re radiocolloids in craniopharyngioma treatments"

RADIATION THERAPY PHYSICS: "Dosimetric characterization of round HDR ¹⁹²Ir AccuBoost applicators for breast brachytherapy"

Mark J. Rivard

Christopher S. Melhus

David E. Wazer

Raymond J. Bricault, Jr.

RADIATION MEASUREMENT PHYSICS: "Time-resolved in vivo luminescence dosimetry for online error detection in pulsed dose-rate brachytherapy"

Claus E. Andersen

Søren Kynde Nielsen

Jacob Christian Lindegaard

OPTICAL PHYSICS: "GAFCHROMIC^® EBT photospectral dose response dependence on temperature and implications for flat bed scanning"

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Treatment response assessment of breast masses on dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance scans using fuzzy c-means clustering and level set segmentation"

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: "The mixability of angiographic contrast with arterial blood"

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "A model for quantitative correction of coronary calcium scores on multidetector, dual source, and electron beam computed tomography for influences of linear motion, calcification density, and temporal resolution: A cardiac phantom study"

TISSUE MEASUREMENTS: "Development and testing of texture discriminators for the analysis of trabecular bone in proximal femur radiographs"

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Three-dimensional ultrasound system for guided breast brachytherapy"

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Photon counting multienergy x-ray imaging: Effect of the characteristic x rays on detector performance"

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Implementation and characterization of a 320-slice volumetric CT scanner for simulation in radiation oncology"

RADIATION THERAPY PHYSICS: "Treatment planning for volumetric modulated arc therapy"

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Physical and psychophysical characterization of a novel clinical system for digital mammography"

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Compact x-ray sources for mammographic applications: Monte Carlo simulations of image quality"

RADIATION THERAPY PHYSICS: "Fast Monte Carlo simulation on a voxelized human phantom deformed to a patient"

RADIATION PROTECTION PHYSICS: "Time dependence of energy spectra of brachytherapy sources and its impact on the half and the tenth value layers"

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: "Characterization of free breathing patterns with 5D lung motion model"

MAGNETIC RESONANCE PHYSICS: "Magnetic resonance microwave absorption imaging: Feasibility of signal detection"

NUCLEAR MEDICINE PHYSICS: "Physical models, cross sections, and numerical approximations used in MCNP and GEANT4 Monte Carlo codes for photon and electron absorbed fraction calculation"

Hélio Yoriyaz

Maurício Moralles

Paulo de Tarso Dalledone Siqueira

Carla da Costa Guimarães

Felipe Belonsi Cintra

RADIATION THERAPY PHYSICS: "A design methodology using signal-to-noise ratio for plastic scintillation detectors design and performance optimization"

RADIATION THERAPY PHYSICS: "Investigation of the dosimetric accuracy of the isocenter shifting method in prostate cancer patients with and without hip prostheses"

MAGNETIC RESONANCE PHYSICS: "MRI of prostate brachytherapy seeds at high field: A study in phantom"

RADIATION THERAPY PHYSICS: "Clinical implementation of a digital tomosynthesis-based seed reconstruction algorithm for intraoperative postimplant dose evaluation in low dose rate prostate brachytherapy"

Malik Brunet-Benkhoucha

Frank Verhaegen

Stéphanie Lassalle

Dominic Béliveau-Nadeau

Brigitte Reniers

David Donath

Daniel Taussky

Jean-François Carrier

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Uncluttered single-image visualization of the abdominal aortic vessel tree: Method and evaluation"

TASK GROUP REPORT: "Report of AAPM Therapy Physics Committee Task Group 74: In-air output ratio, S_c, for megavoltage photon beams"

Chang-Ming Charlie Ma

RADIATION MEASUREMENT PHYSICS: "Determination of output factors for stereotactic radiosurgery beams"

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "A robotic system for ¹⁸F-FMISO PET-guided intratumoral pO₂ measurements"

TASK GROUP REPORT: "AAPM recommendations on dose prescription and reporting methods for permanent interstitial brachytherapy for prostate cancer: Report of Task Group 137"

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Image-based iterative compensation of motion artifacts in computed tomography"

RADIATION THERAPY PHYSICS: "More than 10 years experience of beam monitoring with the Gantry 1 spot scanning proton therapy facility at PSI"

RADIATION MEASUREMENT PHYSICS: "Initial investigation on the use of MR spectroscopy and micro-MRI of GAFCHROMIC^® EBT radiotherapy film"

RADIATION IMAGING PHYSICS: "Quantitative blood flow measurements in the small animal cardiopulmonary system using digital subtraction angiography"