An exponential growth of computational phantom research in radiation protection, imaging, and radiotherapy: a review of the fifty-year history

XG Xu - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2014‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Radiation dose calculation using models of the human anatomy has been a subject of great
interest to radiation protection, medical imaging, and radiotherapy. However, early pioneers …

Attenuation compensation for cardiac single-photon emission computed tomographic imaging: Part 1. Impact of attenuation and methods of estimating attenuation …

MA King, BMW Tsui, TS Pan - Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, 1995‏ - Springer
Attenuation is believed to be one of the major causes of false-positive cardiac single-photon
emission computed tomographic (SPECT) perfusion images. This article reviews the physics …

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 …

Hybrid computational phantoms of the male and female newborn patient: NURBS-based whole-body models

C Lee, D Lodwick, D Hasenauer… - Physics in Medicine …, 2007‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Anthropomorphic computational phantoms are computer models of the human body for use
in the evaluation of dose distributions resulting from either internal or external radiation …

Accelerated iterative transmission CT reconstruction using an ordered subsets convex algorithm

C Kamphuis, FJ Beekman - IEEE Transactions on Medical …, 1998‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Iterative maximum likelihood (ML) transmission computed tomography algorithms have
distinct advantages over Fourier-based reconstruction, but unfortunately require increased …

[ספר][B] Therapeutic applications of Monte Carlo calculations in nuclear medicine

H Zaidi, G Sgouros - 2002‏ - books.google.com
Therapeutic Applications of Monte Carlo Calculations in Nuclear Medicine examines the
applications of Monte Carlo (MC) calculations in therapeutic nuclear medicine, from basic …

Fast implementations of reconstruction-based scatter compensation in fully 3D SPECT image reconstruction

DJ Kadrmas, EC Frey, SS Karimi… - Physics in Medicine & …, 1998‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate scatter compensation in SPECT can be performed by modelling the scatter
response function during the reconstruction process. This method is called reconstruction …

A clinical perspective of accelerated statistical reconstruction

BF Hutton, HM Hudson, FJ Beekman - European journal of nuclear …, 1997‏ - Springer
Although the potential benefits of maximum likelihood reconstruction have been recognised
for many years, the technique has only recently found widespread popularity in clinical …

Acceleration of Monte Carlo SPECT simulation using convolution-based forced detection

HWAM de Jong, ETP Slijpen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2001‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is an established tool to calculate photon transport through
tissue in Emission Computed Tomography (ECT). Since the first appearance of MC a large …

A comparison of human and model observers in multislice LROC studies

HC Gifford, MA King, PH Pretorius… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Model and human observers have been compared in a series of localization receiver
operating characteristic (LROC) studies involving single-slice and multislice image displays …