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Volume 35; Issue 4

Medical Physics

Volume 35; Issue 4

1

Monte Carlo simulation of backscatter from lead for clinical electron beams using EGSnrc

Chow, James C. L., Grigorov, Grigor N.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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english, 2008

2

Optimization of the computational efficiency of a 3D, collapsed cone dose calculation algorithm for brachytherapy

Carlsson Tedgren, Åsa, Ahnesjö, Anders

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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english, 2008

3

Iterative reconstruction of a region of interest for transmission tomography

Ziegler, Andy, Nielsen, Tim, Grass, Michael

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 612 KB

english, 2008

4

The nth root percent depth dose method for calculating monitor units for irregularly shaped electron fields

Kehwar, Than S., Huq, M. Saiful

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 326 KB

english, 2008

5

Unifying dose specification between clinical BNCT centers in the Americas

Riley, K. J., Binns, P. J., Harling, O. K., Kiger, W. S., González, S. J., Casal, M. R., Longhino, J., Larrieu, O. A. Calzetta, Blaumann, H. R.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

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english

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PDF, 131 KB

english, 2008

6

Dosimetric characterization of model Cs-1 Rev2 cesium-131 brachytherapy source in water phantoms and human tissues with MCNP5 Monte Carlo simulation

Wang, Jianhua, Zhang, Hualin

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 230 KB

english, 2008

7

Monte Carlo study of the dose rate distributions for the Ir2.A85-2 and Ir2.A85-1 Ir-192 afterloading sources

Granero, D., Pérez-Calatayud, J., Ballester, F.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 252 KB

english, 2008

8

Radiobiological Modelling in Radiation Oncology

Dale, Roger, Jones, Bleddyn, Warkentin, Brad

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 31 KB

english, 2008

9

Development of a QA phantom and automated analysis tool for geometric quality assurance of on-board MV and kV x-ray imaging systems

Mao, Weihua, Lee, Louis, Xing, Lei

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 677 KB

english, 2008

10

Region-oriented CT image representation for reducing computing time of Monte Carlo simulations

Sarrut, David, Guigues, Laurent

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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english, 2008

11

Comparison of fixed-beam IMRT, helical tomotherapy, and IMPT for selected cases

Muzik, Jan, Soukup, Martin, Alber, Markus

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 2.10 MB

english, 2008

12

Acceleration of GATE SPECT simulations

De Beenhouwer, Jan, Staelens, Steven, Vandenberghe, Stefaan, Lemahieu, Ignace

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 633 KB

english, 2008

13

Study of direct and indirect parametric estimation methods of linear models in dynamic positron emission tomography

Tsoumpas, Charalampos, Turkheimer, Federico E., Thielemans, Kris

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 1.48 MB

english, 2008

14

Anniversary Paper: Fifty years of AAPM involvement in radiation dosimetry

Ibbott, G., Ma, C.-M., Rogers, D. W. O., Seltzer, S. M., Williamson, J. F.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 485 KB

english, 2008

15

Automatic segmentation of the prostate in 3D MR images by atlas matching using localized mutual information

Klein, Stefan, van der Heide, Uulke A., Lips, Irene M., van Vulpen, Marco, Staring, Marius, Pluim, Josien P. W.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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16

Technical note: The calibration of [sup 90]Y-labeled SIR-Spheres® using a nondestructive spectroscopic assay

Selwyn, R., Micka, J., DeWerd, L., Nickles, R., Thomadsen, B.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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english, 2008

17

Dosimetric investigation of lung tumor motion compensation with a robotic respiratory tracking system: An experimental study

Nioutsikou, Elena, Seppenwoolde, Yvette, Symonds-Tayler, J. Richard N., Heijmen, Ben, Evans, Phil, Webb, Steve

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 1.66 MB

english, 2008

18

The impact of MLC transmitted radiation on EPID dosimetry for dynamic MLC beams

Vial, Philip, Greer, Peter B., Hunt, Peter, Oliver, Lyn, Baldock, Clive

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.04 MB

english, 2008

19

Automatic nonrigid registration of whole body CT mice images

Li, Xia, Yankeelov, Thomas E., Peterson, Todd E., Gore, John C., Dawant, Benoit M.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.79 MB

english, 2008

20

Radiotherapy dosimetry using a commercial OSL system

Viamonte, A., da Rosa, L. A. R., Buckley, L. A., Cherpak, A., Cygler, J. E.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 591 KB

english, 2008

21

Respiratory motion effects on whole breast helical tomotherapy

Moeckly, Steven R., Lamba, Michael, Elson, Howard R.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 2.88 MB

english, 2008

22

The impact of respiratory motion and treatment technique on stereotactic body radiation therapy for liver cancer

Wu, Q. Jackie, Thongphiew, Danthai, Wang, Zhiheng, Chankong, Vira, Yin, Fang-Fang

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.34 MB

english, 2008

23

Technical Note: Dose-volume histogram analysis in radiotherapy using the Gaussian error function

Chow, James C. L., Markel, Daniel, Jiang, Runqing

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 511 KB

english, 2008

24

Quantifying the accuracy of automated structure segmentation in 4D CT images using a deformable image registration algorithm

Wijesooriya, Krishni, Weiss, E., Dill, V., Dong, L., Mohan, R., Joshi, S., Keall, P. J.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 889 KB

english, 2008

25

Efficiency improvements for ion chamber calculations in high energy photon beams

Wulff, J., Zink, K., Kawrakow, I.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 229 KB

english, 2008

26

A registration based approach for 4D cardiac micro-CT using combined prospective and retrospective gating

Badea, Cristian T., Schreibmann, Eduard, Fox, Tim

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 1.08 MB

english, 2008

27

A comparative contrast-detail study of five medical displaysa)

Samei, Ehsan, Ranger, Nicole T., Delong, David M.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 630 KB

english, 2008

28

MRI-compatible transurethral ultrasound system for the treatment of localized prostate cancer using rotational control

Chopra, Rajiv, Baker, Nicole, Choy, Vanessa, Boyes, Aaron, Tang, Kee, Bradwell, David, Bronskill, Michael J.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 587 KB

english, 2008

29

Peripheral dose measurement for CyberKnife radiosurgery with upgraded linac shielding

Chuang, Cynthia F., Larson, David A., Zytkovicz, Andrea, Smith, Vernon, Petti, Paula L.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 100 KB

english, 2008

30

VMC ++ versus BEAMnrc: A comparison of simulated linear accelerator heads for photon beams

Hasenbalg, F., Fix, M. K., Born, E. J., Mini, R., Kawrakow, I.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 224 KB

english, 2008

31

Threshold segmentation for PET target volume delineation in radiation treatment planning: The role of target-to-background ratio and target size

Brambilla, M., Matheoud, R., Secco, C., Loi, G., Krengli, M., Inglese, E.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 131 KB

english, 2008

32

Combined kV and MV imaging for real-time tracking of implanted fiducial markersa)

Wiersma, R. D., Mao, Weihua, Xing, L.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 1.02 MB

english, 2008

33

Monte Carlo calculations and experimental measurements of dosimetric parameters of the IRA−P103d brachytherapy source

Sadeghi, Mahdi, Raisali, Gholamreza, Hosseini, S. Hamed, Shavar, Arzhang

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 388 KB

english, 2008

34

The effect of skin thickness determined using breast CT on mammographic dosimetry

Huang, Shih-Ying, Boone, John M., Yang, Kai, Kwan, Alexander L. C., Packard, Nathan J.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 889 KB

english, 2008

35

Quantification of breast arterial calcification using full field digital mammography

Molloi, Sabee, Xu, Tong, Ducote, Justin, Iribarren, Carlos

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 502 KB

english, 2008

36

Improved classifier for computer-aided polyp detection in CT Colonography by nonlinear dimensionality reduction

Wang, Shijun, Yao, Jianhua, Summers, Ronald M.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 3.22 MB

english, 2008

37

Quantification of lesion size, depth, and uptake using a dual-head molecular breast imaging system

Hruska, Carrie B., O'Connor, Michael K.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 665 KB

english, 2008

38

Automated detection of microcalcification clusters for digital breast tomosynthesis using projection data only: A preliminary study

Reiser, I., Nishikawa, R. M., Edwards, A. V., Kopans, D. B., Schmidt, R. A., Papaioannou, J., Moore, R. H.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

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english

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english, 2008

39

Editorial Board

Journal:

Medical Physics

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2008

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english

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40

Table of Contents

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

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english

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41

Laser range scanning for image-guided neurosurgery: Investigation of image-to-physical space registrations

Cao, Aize, Thompson, R. C., Dumpuri, P., Dawant, B. M., Galloway, R. L., Ding, S., Miga, M. I.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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english, 2008

42

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

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english

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english, 2008

43

Classifier performance prediction for computer-aided diagnosis using a limited dataset

Sahiner, Berkman, Chan, Heang-Ping, Hadjiiski, Lubomir

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 252 KB

english, 2008

44

Split-focused ultrasound transducer with multidirectional heating for breast tumor thermal surgery

Cheng, Tze-Yuan, Ju, Kuen-Cheng, Ho, Cheng-Shiao, Chen, Yung-Yaw, Chang, Hsu, Lin, Win-Li

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.27 MB

english, 2008

45

Adsorption of metallic radionuclides on plastic phantom walls

Park, Mi-Ae, Mahmood, Ashfaq, Zimmerman, Robert E., Limpa-Amara, Naengnoi, Makrigiorgos, G. Mike, Moore, Stephen C.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 69 KB

english, 2008

46

Characteristics of megavoltage cone-beam digital tomosynthesis

Descovich, M., Morin, O., Aubry, J. F., Aubin, M., Chen, J., Bani-Hashemi, A, Pouliot, J.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 527 KB

english, 2008

47

Improvement of the spatial resolution of the MicroPET R4 scanner by wobbling the bed

Suk, Joon Young, Thompson, Christopher J., Labuda, Aleks, Goertzen, Andrew L.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 645 KB

english, 2008

48

The shortage of radiation oncology physicists is addressable through remote treatment planning combined with periodic visits by consultant physicists

Zellmer, Darwin, Klein, Eric, Orton, Colin G.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

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PDF, 64 KB

2008

49

On comparing methods for discriminating between actually negative and actually positive subjects with FROC type data

Song, Tao, Bandos, Andriy I., Rockette, Howard E., Gur, David

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

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PDF, 152 KB

2008

50

A mathematical model platform for optimizing a multiprojection breast imaging system

Chawla, Amarpreet S., Samei, Ehsan, Saunders, Robert S., Lo, Joseph Y., Baker, Jay A.

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 872 KB

english, 2008

51

Photon energy spectrum emitted by a novel polymer-encapsulated P103d source and its effect on the dose rate constant

Khan, Sabrina, Chen, Zhe Jay, Nath, Ravinder

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 93 KB

english, 2008

52

Slides collection. Radiation Oncology Physics: A Handbook for Teachers and Students

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 13 KB

english, 2008

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Slides collection. Radiation Oncology Physics: A Handbook for Teachers and Students

Journal:

Medical Physics

Year:

2008

File:

PDF, 13 KB

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