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Range uncertainties in proton therapy and the role of Monte Carlo simulations by Paganetti, Harald

“…The main advantages of proton therapy are the reduced total energy deposited in the patient as compared to photon techniques and the finite range of the proton…”
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Applications and limitations of radiomics by Yip, Stephen S F, Aerts, Hugo J W L

“…Radiomics is an emerging field in quantitative imaging that uses advanced imaging features to objectively and quantitatively describe tumour phenotypes…”
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Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) of the human brain: technique, findings and clinical applications by Hiscox, Lucy V, Johnson, Curtis L, Barnhill, Eric, McGarry, Matt D J, Huston, John, van Beek, Edwin J R, Starr, John M, Roberts, Neil

“…Neurological disorders are one of the most important public health concerns in developed countries. Established brain imaging techniques such as magnetic…”
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First patients treated with a 1.5 T MRI-Linac: clinical proof of concept of a high-precision, high-field MRI guided radiotherapy treatment by Raaymakers, B W, Jürgenliemk-Schulz, I M, Bol, G H, Glitzner, M, Kotte, A N T J, van Asselen, B, de Boer, J C J, Bluemink, J J, Hackett, S L, Moerland, M A, Woodings, S J, Wolthaus, J W H, van Zijp, H M, Philippens, M E P, Tijssen, R, Kok, J G M, de Groot-van Breugel, E N, Kiekebosch, I, Meijers, L T C, Nomden, C N, Sikkes, G G, Doornaert, P A H, Eppinga, W S C, Kasperts, N, Kerkmeijer, L G W, Tersteeg, J H A, Brown, K J, Pais, B, Woodhead, P, Lagendijk, J J W

“…The integration of 1.5 T MRI functionality with a radiotherapy linear accelerator (linac) has been pursued since 1999 by the UMC Utrecht in close collaboration…”
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Roadmap toward the 10 ps time-of-flight PET challenge by Lecoq, Paul, Morel, Christian, Prior, John O, Visvikis, Dimitris, Gundacker, Stefan, Auffray, Etiennette, Križan, Peter, Turtos, Rosana Martinez, Thers, Dominique, Charbon, Edoardo, Varela, Joao, de La Taille, Christophe, Rivetti, Angelo, Breton, Dominique, Pratte, Jean-François, Nuyts, Johan, Surti, Suleman, Vandenberghe, Stefaan, Marsden, Paul, Parodi, Katia, Benlloch, Jose Maria, Benoit, Mathieu

“…Since the seventies, positron emission tomography (PET) has become an invaluable medical molecular imaging modality with an unprecedented sensitivity at the…”
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Severity assessment of COVID-19 using CT image features and laboratory indices by Tang, Zhenyu, Zhao, Wei, Xie, Xingzhi, Zhong, Zheng, Shi, Feng, Ma, Tianmin, Liu, Jun, Shen, Dinggang

“…The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is now a global pandemic. Tens of millions of people have been confirmed with infection, and also more people are…”
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Sparse-view x-ray CT reconstruction via total generalized variation regularization by Niu, Shanzhou, Gao, Yang, Bian, Zhaoying, Huang, Jing, Chen, Wufan, Yu, Gaohang, Liang, Zhengrong, Ma, Jianhua

“…Sparse-view CT reconstruction algorithms via total variation (TV) optimize the data iteratively on the basis of a noise- and artifact-reducing model, resulting…”
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Advanced Monte Carlo simulations of emission tomography imaging systems with GATE by Sarrut, David, Bała, Mateusz, Bardiès, Manuel, Bert, Julien, Chauvin, Maxime, Chatzipapas, Konstantinos, Dupont, Mathieu, Etxebeste, Ane, M Fanchon, Louise, Jan, Sébastien, Kayal, Gunjan, S Kirov, Assen, Kowalski, Paweł, Krzemien, Wojciech, Labour, Joey, Lenz, Mirjam, Loudos, George, Mehadji, Brahim, Ménard, Laurent, Morel, Christian, Papadimitroulas, Panagiotis, Rafecas, Magdalena, Salvadori, Julien, Seiter, Daniel, Stockhoff, Mariele, Testa, Etienne, Trigila, Carlotta, Pietrzyk, Uwe, Vandenberghe, Stefaan, Verdier, Marc-Antoine, Visvikis, Dimitris, Ziemons, Karl, Zvolský, Milan, Roncali, Emilie

“…Built on top of the Geant4 toolkit, GATE is collaboratively developed for more than 15 years to design Monte Carlo simulations of nuclear-based imaging…”
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An exponential growth of computational phantom research in radiation protection, imaging, and radiotherapy: a review of the fifty-year history by Xu, X George

“…Radiation dose calculation using models of the human anatomy has been a subject of great interest to radiation protection, medical imaging, and radiotherapy…”
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Combining magnetic particle imaging and magnetic fluid hyperthermia in a theranostic platform by Hensley, Daniel, Tay, Zhi Wei, Dhavalikar, Rohan, Zheng, Bo, Goodwill, Patrick, Rinaldi, Carlos, Conolly, Steven

“…Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is a rapidly developing molecular and cellular imaging modality. Magnetic fluid hyperthermia (MFH) is a promising therapeutic…”
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Robust sound speed estimation for ultrasound-based hepatic steatosis assessment by Imbault, Marion, Faccinetto, Alex, Osmanski, Bruno-Félix, Tissier, Antoine, Deffieux, Thomas, Gennisson, Jean-Luc, Vilgrain, Valérie, Tanter, Mickaël

“…Hepatic steatosis is a common condition, the prevalence of which is increasing along with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Currently, the most…”
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Dose evaluation of fast synthetic-CT generation using a generative adversarial network for general pelvis MR-only radiotherapy by Maspero, Matteo, Savenije, Mark H F, Dinkla, Anna M, Seevinck, Peter R, Intven, Martijn P W, Jurgenliemk-Schulz, Ina M, Kerkmeijer, Linda G W, van den Berg, Cornelis A T

“…To enable magnetic resonance (MR)-only radiotherapy and facilitate modelling of radiation attenuation in humans, synthetic CT (sCT) images need to be…”
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STIR: software for tomographic image reconstruction release 2 by Thielemans, Kris, Tsoumpas, Charalampos, Mustafovic, Sanida, Beisel, Tobias, Aguiar, Pablo, Dikaios, Nikolaos, Jacobson, Matthew W

“…We present a new version of STIR (Software for Tomographic Image Reconstruction), an open source object-oriented library implemented in C++ for 3D positron…”
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Real-time intrafraction motion monitoring in external beam radiotherapy by Bertholet, Jenny, Knopf, Antje, Eiben, Björn, McClelland, Jamie, Grimwood, Alexander, Harris, Emma, Menten, Martin, Poulsen, Per, Nguyen, Doan Trang, Keall, Paul, Oelfke, Uwe

“…Radiotherapy (RT) aims to deliver a spatially conformal dose of radiation to tumours while maximizing the dose sparing to healthy tissues. However, the…”
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BGO as a hybrid scintillator / Cherenkov radiator for cost-effective time-of-flight PET by Brunner, S E, Schaart, D R

“…Due to detector developments in the last decade, the time-of-flight (TOF) method is now commonly used to improve the quality of positron emission tomography…”
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The physics of proton therapy by Newhauser, Wayne D, Zhang, Rui

“…The physics of proton therapy has advanced considerably since it was proposed in 1946. Today analytical equations and numerical simulation methods are…”
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PETPVC: a toolbox for performing partial volume correction techniques in positron emission tomography by Thomas, Benjamin A, Cuplov, Vesna, Bousse, Alexandre, Mendes, Adriana, Thielemans, Kris, Hutton, Brian F, Erlandsson, Kjell

“…Positron emission tomography (PET) images are degraded by a phenomenon known as the partial volume effect (PVE). Approaches have been developed to reduce PVEs,…”
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An evaluation of three commercially available metal artifact reduction methods for CT imaging by Huang, Jessie Y, Kerns, James R, Nute, Jessica L, Liu, Xinming, Balter, Peter A, Stingo, Francesco C, Followill, David S, Mirkovic, Dragan, Howell, Rebecca M, Kry, Stephen F

“…Three commercial metal artifact reduction methods were evaluated for use in computed tomography (CT) imaging in the presence of clinically realistic metal…”
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Adaptive-weighted total variation minimization for sparse data toward low-dose x-ray computed tomography image reconstruction by Liu, Yan, Ma, Jianhua, Fan, Yi, Liang, Zhengrong

“…Previous studies have shown that by minimizing the total variation (TV) of the to-be-estimated image with some data and other constraints, piecewise-smooth…”
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Roadmap: proton therapy physics and biology by Paganetti, Harald, Beltran, Chris, Both, Stefan, Dong, Lei, Flanz, Jacob, Furutani, Keith, Grassberger, Clemens, Grosshans, David R, Knopf, Antje-Christin, Langendijk, Johannes A, Nystrom, Hakan, Parodi, Katia, Raaymakers, Bas W, Richter, Christian, Sawakuchi, Gabriel O, Schippers, Marco, Shaitelman, Simona F, Teo, B K Kevin, Unkelbach, Jan, Wohlfahrt, Patrick, Lomax, Tony

“…The treatment of cancer with proton radiation therapy was first suggested in 1946 followed by the first treatments in the 1950s. As of 2020, almost 200 000…”
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