Assessment of image quality and dose calculation accuracy on kV CBCT, MV CBCT, and MV CT images for urgent palliative radiotherapy treatments. [PDF]
, 2016 A clinical workflow was developed for urgent palliative radiotherapy treatments that integrates patient simulation, planning, quality assurance, and treatment in one 30-minute session.
Barani, Igor +9 more
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Diagnostics, 2022 The aim of this study was to characterize image quality and to determine the optimal strength levels of a novel iterative reconstruction algorithm (quantum iterative reconstruction, QIR) for low-dose, ultra-high-resolution (UHR) photon-counting detector ...
Thomas Sartoretti +9 more
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Towards Accurate Dielectric Property Retrieval of Biological Tissues for Blood Glucose Monitoring [PDF]
, 2014 (c) 2014 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or ...
Foster, R, Hao, Y, Yilmaz, T
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Utilizing Additive Manufacturing to Produce Organ Mimics and Imaging Phantoms
Surgeries, 2023 The complex geometries and material properties necessary for generating accurate organ mimics require new procedures and methods to fully utilize current technologies.
Dmitri Karaman, Stephanie M. Willerth
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Broadband Tissue Mimicking Phantoms and a Patch Resonator for Evaluating Noninvasive Monitoring of Blood Glucose Levels [PDF]
, 2014 (c) 2014 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or ...
Foster, R, Hao, Y, Yilmaz, T
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The validity and reliability of the exposure index as a metric for estimating the radiation dose to the patient [PDF]
, 2020 Introduction With the introduction of digital radiography, the feedback between image quality and over-exposure has been partly lost which in some cases has led to a steady increase in dose.
A. England +16 more
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Determining blood flow direction from short neurovascular surgical microscope videos
Healthcare Technology Letters, 2019 Neurovascular surgery aims to repair diseased or damaged blood vessels in the brain or spine. There are numerous procedures that fall under this category, and in all of them, the direction of blood flow through these vessels is crucial information ...
Reid Vassallo +8 more
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Characterization of 60 GHz Shadowing by Human Bodies and Simple Phantoms [PDF]
, 2012 The 60 GHz band is very prominsing for high data rate (>1 Gb/s) wireless systems operating at short ranges. However, due to the short wavelengths in this frequency band, the shadowing effects cuased by human bodies and furniture are severe and needs to ...
Gustafson, C., Tufvesson, F.
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Modelling Dynamically Re-sizeable Electrodes (DRE) for Targeted Transcutaneous Measurements in Impedance Plethysmography [PDF]
, 2020 Impedance plethysmography of extremities typically uses band electrodes around limbs to monitor changes in blood volume. This often causes monitored blood variations to only generate minuscule impedance values relative to the measured baseline ...
Constantinou, L. +2 more
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Analysis of a Flexible Dual-Channel Octagonal Coil System for UHF MRI
IEEE Access, 2022 Nowadays, MRI is focused on using ultra-high static magnetic fields (>7 T) to increase the signal-to-noise ratio. The use of high fields, on the other hand, requires novel technical solutions as well as more stringent design criteria for specific ...
Nicola Curreli +8 more
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