Tissue mimicking materials for imaging and therapy phantoms: a review

CK McGarry, LJ Grattan, AM Ivory, F Leek… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Tissue mimicking materials (TMMs), typically contained within phantoms, have been used
for many decades in both imaging and therapeutic applications. This review investigates the …

Nuclear physics in particle therapy: a review

M Durante, H Paganetti - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Charged particle therapy has been largely driven and influenced by nuclear physics. The
increase in energy deposition density along the ion path in the body allows reducing the …

Virtual clinical trials in medical imaging: a review

E Abadi, WP Segars, BMW Tsui… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The accelerating complexity and variety of medical imaging devices and methods have
outpaced the ability to evaluate and optimize their design and clinical use. This is a …

A systematic review on 3D-printed imaging and dosimetry phantoms in radiation therapy

R Tino, A Yeo, M Leary, M Brandt… - Technology in cancer …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction: Additive manufacturing or 3-dimensional printing has become a widespread
technology with many applications in medicine. We have conducted a systematic review of …

NCICT: a computational solution to estimate organ doses for pediatric and adult patients undergoing CT scans

C Lee, KP Kim, WE Bolch, BE Moroz… - Journal of Radiological …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We developed computational methods and tools to assess organ doses for pediatric and
adult patients undergoing computed tomography (CT) examinations. We used the …

Generating synthetic labeled data from existing anatomical models: an example with echocardiography segmentation

A Gilbert, M Marciniak, C Rodero… - … on Medical Imaging, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning can bring time savings and increased reproducibility to medical image
analysis. However, acquiring training data is challenging due to the time-intensive nature of …

Virtual human models for electromagnetic studies and their applications

SN Makarov, GM Noetscher… - IEEE reviews in …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerical simulation of electromagnetic, thermal, and mechanical responses of the human
body to different stimuli in magnetic resonance imaging safety, antenna research …

OpenDose: open-access resource for nuclear medicine dosimetry

M Chauvin, D Borys, F Botta, P Bzowski… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2020 - Soc Nuclear Med
Radiopharmaceutical dosimetry depends on the localization in space and time of
radioactive sources and requires the estimation of the amount of energy emitted by the …

DukeSim: a realistic, rapid, and scanner-specific simulation framework in computed tomography

E Abadi, B Harrawood, S Sharma… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The purpose of this study was to develop a CT simulation platform that is: 1) compatible with
voxel-based computational phantoms; 2) capable of modeling the geometry and physics of …

Artificial human phantoms: Human proxy in testing microwave apparatuses that have electromagnetic interaction with the human body

AT Mobashsher, AM Abbosh - IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A quantitative and explicit validation of the performance and safety of microwave systems
and devices that have electromagnetic interaction with the human body is critical in the …