XCIST—an open access x-ray/CT simulation toolkit

M Wu, P FitzGerald, J Zhang, WP Segars… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. X-ray-based imaging modalities including mammography and computed
tomography (CT) are widely used in cancer screening, diagnosis, staging, treatment …

Real‐time estimation of patient‐specific dose distributions for medical CT using the deep dose estimation

J Maier, L Klein, E Eulig, S Sawall… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose With the rising number of computed tomography (CT) examinations and the trend
toward personalized medicine, patient‐specific dose estimates are becoming more and …

Real-time, acquisition parameter-free voxel-wise patient-specific Monte Carlo dose reconstruction in whole-body CT scanning using deep neural networks

Y Salimi, A Akhavanallaf, Z Mansouri, I Shiri… - European Radiology, 2023 - Springer
Objective We propose a deep learning-guided approach to generate voxel-based absorbed
dose maps from whole-body CT acquisitions. Methods The voxel-wise dose maps …

Evaluation of a V‐Net autosegmentation algorithm for pediatric CT scans: Performance, generalizability, and application to patient‐specific CT dosimetry

PM Adamson, V Bhattbhatt, S Principi… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose This study developed and evaluated a fully convolutional network (FCN) for
pediatric CT organ segmentation and investigated the generalizability of the FCN across …

A fully automated machine learning-based methodology for personalized radiation dose assessment in thoracic and abdomen CT

E Tzanis, J Stratakis, M Myronakis, J Damilakis - Physica Medica, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose To develop a machine learning-based methodology for patient-specific radiation
dosimetry in thoracic and abdomen CT. Methods Three hundred and thirty-one …

Real-time patient-specific CT dose estimation using a deep convolutional neural network

J Maier, E Eulig, S Dorn, S Sawall… - 2018 IEEE Nuclear …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the potential risk of ionizing radiation, the assessment of the administered radiation
dose is an important topic in CT. However, dosimetric quantities that are routinely evaluated …

Is deep learning-enabled real-time personalized CT dosimetry feasible using only patient images as input?

T Berris, M Myronakis, J Stratakis, K Perisinakis… - Physica Medica, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose To propose a novel deep-learning based dosimetry method that allows quick and
accurate estimation of organ doses for individual patients, using only their computed …

Using medical imaging effective dose in deep learning models: estimation and evaluation

O Boursalie, R Samavi, TE Doyle… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurately estimating patient exposure is a fundamental concern when modeling the
radiation risk from medical imaging. Inaccurate estimation techniques produce misleading …

Model‐based dose reconstruction for CT dose estimation

M Wu, Z Yin, B De Man - Medical Physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Our goal is to develop a model‐based approach for CT dose estimation. We
previously presented a CT dose estimation method that offered good accuracy in soft tissue …

A Novel Method for Estimating Patient-Specific Primary dose in Cone-Beam Computed Tomography

J Kim, HK Kim - Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 2021 - academic.oup.com
For the purpose of real-time scan-protocol optimisation and patient-specific dose
management in cone-beam computed tomography, we introduce a numerical algorithm that …