Authors: Zijia Guo, Michael F. McNitt-Gray, Frederic Noo, Karl Stierstorfer
Affiliation: Siemens Healthineers, University of Utah, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Accurately assessing lung parenchyma health is critically important in the management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. CT attenuation values are valuable for this purpo...
Authors: Hannah Grover, Andrew J. Sampson
Affiliation: Oregon Health & Science University, UT Health San Antonio
Abstract Preview: Purpose: The goal of this work was to quantify the dosimetric impact of iodinated contrast on fibroglandular breast tissue to better inform clinical risk and benefit assessments when determining the m...
Authors: Alejandro Bertolet, Isaac Meyer, Harald Paganetti, Jan PO Schuemann, Wook-Geun Shin
Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To develop a methodology for Monte Carlo modeling of cell-specific DNA geometries based on Hi-C data using TOPAS-nBio, and to evaluate early DNA damage distributions.
Methods: Hi-C data of...
Authors: Wesley E. Bolch, Chansoo Choi, Chan Hyeong Kim, Suhyeon Kim, Bangho Shin, Yeon Soo Yeom
Affiliation: Hanyang University, University of Florida, 2) Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Task Group 103 of International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) recently released new-generation adult and pediatric mesh-type reference computational phantoms (MRCPs) via ICRP P...
Authors: Davide Brivio, Erno Sajo, Ryan Williams, Piotr Zygmanski
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Lowell, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To develop a non-invasive 3D in-vivo dosimetry tool exploring the relationship between positron annihilations and dose per voxel using Monte Carlo simulation. The Positron Guided Radiation Th...
Authors: Jeremy T. Booth, Martin Andrew Ebert, Robert Finnegan, Annette Haworth, George Hruby, Burhan Javed, Kazi Ridita Mahtaba, Leyla Moghaddasi, Yutong Zhao
Affiliation: Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, The University of Sydney, The University of Western Australia, Genesis Care, Rockhampton Hospital
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To evaluate the efficacy of an atlas-based tumor control probability (TCP) model in predicting prostate cancer (PCa) recurrence by retrospectively integrating patient-specific primary radi...
Authors: Jeffrey S. Nelson, Raj Kumar Panta, Megan K. Russ, Ehsan Samei
Affiliation: Clinical Imaging Physics Group, Department of Radiology, Duke University Health System
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) enhances tumor detection by utilizing energy-dependent information from iodinated contrast agents. However, there is a lack of quantitative techniques to a...