Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Aug 3, 2021
In order to deliver accurate and safe treatment to cancer patients in radiation therapy using advanced techniques such as intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and volumetric-arc radiation therapy (VMAT), patient specific quality assurance (QA...
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
Aug 2, 2021
MR fingerprinting (MRF) is an innovative approach to quantitative MRI. A typical disadvantage of dictionary-based MRF is the explosive growth of the dictionary as a function of the number of reconstructed parameters, an instance of the curse of dimen...
Although deep learning (DL) technique has been successfully used for computed tomography (CT) reconstruction, its implementation on cone-beam CT (CBCT) reconstruction is extremely challenging due to memory limitations. In this study, a novel DL techn...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jul 26, 2021
Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) can reveal crucial information on tissue properties, such as scatterer density. If the scatterer density per resolution cell is above or below 10, the tissue is considered as fully developed speckle (FDS) or underdevelop...
Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography (DT-MREIT) is a newly developed technique that combines MR-based measurements of magnetic flux density with diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI) data to reconstruct electrical conductivity ...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Jul 5, 2021
PURPOSE: We present the validation of PROST, a robotic device for prostate biopsy. PROST is designed to minimize human error by introducing some autonomy in the execution of the key steps of the procedure, i.e., target selection, image fusion and nee...
Ultrasound breast imaging is a promising alternative to conventional mammography because it does not expose women to harmful ionising radiation and it can successfully image dense breast tissue. However, conventional ultrasound imaging only provides ...
BACKGROUND: Any Monte Carlo simulation of dose delivery using medical accelerator-generated megavolt photon beams begins by simulating electrons of the primary electron beam interacting with a target. Because the electron beam characteristics of any ...
Estimation of white matter fiber orientation distribution function (fODF) is the essential first step for reliable brain tractography and connectivity analysis. Most of the existing fODF estimation methods rely on sub-optimal physical models of the d...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Jun 26, 2021
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to provide a simple, feasible and effective patient-to-image registration method for robot-assisted long bone osteotomy, which has rarely been systematically reported. The practical requirement is to meet the acc...