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The potential for community-based health information exchange systems to reduce hospital readmissions by Vest, Joshua R, Kern, Lisa M, Silver, Michael D, Kaushal, Rainu

“…Background Hospital readmissions are common, costly, and offer opportunities for utilization reduction. Electronic health information exchange (HIE) systems…”
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Feldkamp-based cone-beam reconstruction for gantry-tilted helical multislice CT by Hein, Ilmar, Taguchi, Katsuyuki, Silver, Michael D., Kazama, Masahiro, Mori, Issei

“…Depending on the clinical application, it is frequently necessary to tilt the gantry of an x-ray CT system with respect to the patient and couch. For…”
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Health information exchange and the frequency of repeat medical imaging by Vest, Joshua R, Kaushal, Rainu, Silver, Michael D, Hentel, Keith, Kern, Lisa M

“…Medical imaging, which is expensive, is frequently repeated for the same patient within a relatively short period of time due to lack of access to previous…”
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The Impact of Assimilation and Differentiation Needs on Perceived Group Importance and Judgments of Ingroup Size by Pickett, Cynthia L., Silver, Michael D., Brewer, Marilynn B.

“…At the heart of optimal distinctiveness theory is the idea that a group’s level of inclusiveness is a significant determinant of how well that group can meet…”
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Patient-centered medical homes: observable types derived from national recognition assessment scores by Vest, Joshua R, Kern, Lisa M, Jung, Hye-Young, Ancker, Jessica S, Richardson, Joshua E, Silver, Michael D, Kaushal, Rainu

“…The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is a strategy to transform primary care delivery organizations. However, PCMHs take on many forms and can "look…”
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A new weighting scheme for cone-beam helical CT to reduce the image noise by Taguchi, Katsuyuki, Chiang, Be-Shan S, Silver, Michael D

“…Reducing the patient dose while keeping the image noise at the same level is desired for x-ray CT examinations. In order to achieve the goal, we propose a new…”
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Optimized Reconstruction Algorithm for Helical CT With Fractional Pitch Between 1PI and 3PI by Katsevich, A., Zamyatin, A.A., Silver, M.D.

“…We propose an approximate approach to use redundant data outside the 1PI window within the exact Katsevich reconstruction framework. The proposed algorithm…”
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Algorithm-enabled high-performance C-arm cone-beam CT angiography of cerebral vasculature by Xiao Han, Zheng Zhang, Oishi, Satoru, Satow, Tetsu, Yokoyama, Hiromichi, Yamada, Masanobu, Silver, Michael D., Yu-Bing Chang, Sidky, Emil Y., Xiaochuan Pan

“…C-arm CBCT utilizing a flat-panel detector has been implemented in surgical suites for integration of tomographic imaging capabilities in the intra-operative…”
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Investigation of optimization-based reconstruction for intra-operative neurological imaging by Xiao Han, Oishi, Satoru, Satow, Tetsu, Yokoyama, Hiromichi, Yamada, Masanobu, Silver, Michael D., Yu-Bing Chang, Sidky, Emil Y., Xiaochuan Pan

“…Intra-operative C-arm cone-beam CT (CBCT) provides significant technical and workflow benefits for neurological interventions. Current C-arm CBCT employs…”
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Helical cone beam CT with an asymmetrical detector by Zamyatin, Alexander A., Taguchi, Katsuyuki, Silver, Michael D.

“…If a multislice or other area detector is shifted to one side to cover a larger field of view, then the data are truncated on one side. We propose a method to…”
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The cause of the artifact in 4-slice helical computed tomography by Taguchi, Katsuyuki, Aradate, Hiroshi, Saito, Yasuo, Zmora, Ilan, Han, Kyung S., Silver, Michael D.

“…The causes of the image artifacts in a 4-slice helical computed tomography have been discussed as follows: (1) changeover in pairs of data used in z…”
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Comment on “An inverse-geometry volumetric CT system with a large-area scanned source: A feasibility study” [ Med. Phys. 31, 2623–2627 (2004)] by Silver, Michael D.

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Comment on “An inverse-geometry volumetric CT system with a large-area scanned source: A feasibility study” [Med. Phys. 31, 2623-2627 (2004)]: Comment by Silver, Michael D.

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A method for including redundant data in computed tomography by Silver, Michael D.

“…A method for including redundant data in fan-beam computed tomography (CT) is presented. It is a natural extension of the Parker [Med. Phys. 9, 254–257 (1982)]…”
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Practical hybrid convolution algorithm for helical CT reconstruction by Zamyatin, A.A., Taguchi, K., Silver, M.D.

“…Great strides have been taken in the last few years in the development of both approximate and exact reconstruction algorithms for helical cone-beam computed…”
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A physics-based fast approach to scatter correction for large cone angle computed tomographic systems by Zou, Y., Silver, M. D., Chiang, B., Oishi, S., Uebayashi, Y., Noshi, Y., Nakanishi, S.

“…An efficient scatter correction model is developed for large cone angle CT systems. The scatter intensities are expressed as a 2D convolution of forward…”
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High-helical-pitch, cone-beam computed tomography by Silver, M D

“…The object of a helical, cone-beam computed tomography, HCBCT, system is faster scan times for the volume of interest for a patient. The maximum helical-pitch…”
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Reduction of the streak artifacts in circular cone beam CT using scanograms by Yu Zou, Zamyatin, A.A., Chiang, B.S., Silver, M.D.

“…We propose a method to estimate line data from scanogram in a CT scan. Combining the circle data with the estimated line data, we can reconstruct the…”
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Helical CT Reconstruction with Large Cone Angle by Zamyatin, A.A., Katsevich, A., Silver, M.D., Nakanishi, S.

“…In this work we suggest ways to incorporate redundant data into reconstruction for a range of helical pitches from 1-PI to 3-PI. For evaluation we use…”
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Up-sampling with Shift Method for Windmill Correction by Zamyatin, A.A., Hein, I.A., Silver, M.D., Nakanishi, S.

“…We suggest a simple and efficient approach to reduce, and, in some cases, eliminate the windmill artifact. Our method does not require hardware changes. The…”
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