A feasible and automatic free tool for T1 and ECV mapping [PDF]
, 2017 Purpose: Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is a useful non-invasive tool for characterizing tissues and detecting myocardial fibrosis and edema. Estimation of extracellular volume fraction (ECV) using T1 sequences is emerging as an accurate biomarker in ...
Altabella, Luisa +8 more
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Spherical deconvolution of multichannel diffusion MRI data with non-Gaussian noise models and spatial regularization [PDF]
, 2015 Spherical deconvolution (SD) methods are widely used to estimate the intra-voxel white-matter fiber orientations from diffusion MRI data. However, while some of these methods assume a zero-mean Gaussian distribution for the underlying noise, its real ...
Aja-Fernández, Santiago +13 more
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2017 Because accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) systems are planned for use in hospitals, entry into the medical room should be controlled as hospitals are generally assumed to be public and safe places.
Mohadeseh Golshanian +2 more
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Validating Dose Uncertainty Estimates Produced by AUTODIRECT: An Automated Program to Evaluate Deformable Image Registration Accuracy. [PDF]
, 2017 Deformable image registration is a powerful tool for mapping information, such as radiation therapy dose calculations, from one computed tomography image to another. However, deformable image registration is susceptible to mapping errors.
Chen, Josephine +5 more
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Accelerated High-Resolution Photoacoustic Tomography via Compressed Sensing [PDF]
, 2016 Current 3D photoacoustic tomography (PAT) systems offer either high image quality or high frame rates but are not able to deliver high spatial and temporal resolution simultaneously, which limits their ability to image dynamic processes in living tissue.
Arridge, Simon +7 more
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Assessment of organ-specific neutron equivalent doses in proton therapy using computational whole-body age-dependent voxel phantoms [PDF]
Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2008 Proton beams used for radiotherapy will produce neutrons when interacting with matter. The purpose of this study was to quantify the equivalent dose to tissue due to secondary neutrons in pediatric and adult patients treated by proton therapy for brain lesions.
Christina, Zacharatou Jarlskog +4 more
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Monte Carlo simulation of a whole-body counter using IGOR phantoms [PDF]
, 2017 Whole-body counting is a technique of choice for assessing the intake of gamma-emitting radionuclides. An appropriate calibration is necessary, which is done either by experimental measurement or by Monte Carlo (MC) calculation.
Aroua, Abbas +6 more
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Probing white-matter microstructure with higher-order diffusion tensors and susceptibility tensor MRI. [PDF]
, 2013 Diffusion MRI has become an invaluable tool for studying white matter microstructure and brain connectivity. The emergence of quantitative susceptibility mapping and susceptibility tensor imaging (STI) has provided another unique tool for assessing the ...
Li, Wei, Liu, Chunlei, Murphy, Nicole E
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Statistical approach for human electromagnetic exposure assessment in future wireless ATTO-cell networks [PDF]
, 2019 In this article, we study human electromagnetic exposure to the radiation of an ultra dense network of nodes integrated in a floor denoted as ATTO-cell floor, or ATTO-floor. ATTO-cells are a prospective 5 G wireless networking technology, in which humans
Demeester, Piet +6 more
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A Monte Carlo study of organ and effective doses of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans in radiotherapy [PDF]
, 2017 Cone-beam CT (CBCT) scans utilized for image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) procedures have become an essential part of radiotherapy. The aim of this study was to assess organ and effective doses resulting from new CBCT scan protocols (head, thorax, and
Abuhaimed, Abdullah +2 more
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