OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Physics in Medicine and Biology is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Equivalent-time-active-cavitation-imaging enables vascular-resolution blood-brain-barrier-opening-therapy planning	140
Multi³: multi-templates siamese network with multi-peaks detection and multi-features refinement for target tracking in ultrasound image sequences	102
Machine learning approach for proton range verification using real-time prompt gamma imaging with Compton cameras: addressing the total deposited energy information gap	101
Erratum: EFNet: evidence fusion network for tumor segmentation from PET-CT volumes (2021 Phys. Med. Biol. 66 205005)	92
Novel frequency selective B₁ focusing passive lenz resonators for substantial MRI signal-to-noise ratio amplification	83
Corrigendum: DiffuseRT: predicting likely anatomical deformations of patients undergoing radiotherapy (2024 Phys. Med. Biol. 69 155016)	76
The role of volume averaging effects, beam hardening, and phantom scatter in dosimetry of grid therapy	74
Dosimetry for radiobiological in vivo experiments at laser plasma-based proton accelerators	66
Numerical optimization of longitudinal collimator geometry for novel x-ray field	62
The first PET glimpse of a proton FLASH beam	61
Spread-out Bragg peak measurements using a compact quality assurance range calorimeter at the Clatterbridge cancer centre	61
Fourier-based beamforming for 3D plane wave imaging and application in vector flow imaging using selective compounding	61
Proposal for local SAR safety margin in pediatric neuro-imaging using 7 T MRI and parallel transmission	61
Development and characterization of the Hydra: a novel multi-headed, single optical channel scintillation detector	58
Towards simulation-free MR-linac treatment: utilizing male pelvis PSMA-PET/CT and population-based electron density assignments	54
High-sensitivity and spatial resolution benchtop cone beam XFCT imaging system with pixelated photon counting detectors using enhanced multipixel events correction method	52
Thermoplastic 3D printing technology using a single filament for producing realistic patient-derived breast models	49
A vision transformer for emphysema classification using CT images	48
Offline and online LSTM networks for respiratory motion prediction in MR-guided radiotherapy	47
Cellular irradiations with laser-driven carbon ions at ultra-high dose rates	44
Design study of a novel geometrical arrangement for an in-beam small animal positron emission tomography scanner	41
Locoregional recurrence prediction in head and neck cancer based on multi-modality and multi-view feature expansion	40
CMUT for ultrafast passive cavitation detection during ultrasound-induced blood–brain barrier disruption: proof of concept study	39
Mechanistic modelling of relative biological effectiveness of carbon ion beams and comparison with experiments	37
D-SAT: dual semantic aggregation transformer with dual attention for medical image segmentation	37

Dosimetric evaluation of different planning strategies for hypofractionated whole-breast irradiation technique	36
BAF-Net: bidirectional attention-aware fluid pyramid feature integrated multimodal fusion network for diagnosis and prognosis	36
Cerenkov free micro-dosimetry in small-field radiation therapy technique	35
Combining quantitative and qualitative analysis for scoring pleural line in lung ultrasound	35
Functional nanotransducer-mediated wireless neural modulation techniques	34
Mutually enhanced multi-view information learning for segmentation of lung tumor in CT images	34
Inverse planning of lung radiotherapy with photon and proton beams using a discrete ordinates Boltzmann solver	34
Highly robust reconstruction framework for three-dimensional optical imaging based on physical model constrained neural networks	34
Quantitative accuracy in total-body imaging using the uEXPLORER PET/CT scanner	33
M³ResU-Net: a deep residual network for multi-center colorectal polyp segmentation based on multi-scale learning and attention mechanism	33
Deep-learning and radiomics ensemble classifier for false positive reduction in brain metastases segmentation	33
Low power implementation of high frequency SiPM readout for Cherenkov and scintillation detectors in TOF-PET	33
Deep residual-SVD network for brain image registration	33
A probability model for anatomical robust optimisation in head and neck cancer proton therapy	33
Development and evaluation of a new high-TOF-resolution all-digital brain PET system	33
Range uncertainty reductions in proton therapy and resulting improvements in quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) for head-and-neck cancer patients	32
Investigation of intra-fractionated range guided adaptive proton therapy (RGAPT): II. Range-shift compensated on-line treatment adaptation and verification	32
Recent advances in highly accelerated 3D MRI	31
Frequency-selective signal enhancement by a passive dual coil resonator for magnetic particle imaging	31
Revisiting the safety limit in magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia: insights from eddy current induced heating	31
Commissioning an ultra-high-dose-rate electron linac with end-to-end tests	31
Interactive content-based image retrieval with deep learning for CT abdominal organ recognition	31
Corrigendum: Theory of sleep/wake cycles affecting brain elastography (2022 Phys. Med. Biol. 67 225013)	30
A new projection correction based voting strategy for breast calcification artifact reduction	30
Determining the effect of cardiac blood volume on accuracy of uptake rate constants by simulation	30
Experimental evaluation of convolutional neural network-based inter-crystal scattering recovery for high-resolution PET detectors	29
Pixel-by-pixel correction of beam hardening artifacts by bowtie filter in fan-beam CT	29
Deep learning based MLC aperture and monitor unit prediction as a warm start for breast VMAT optimisation	29
An end-to-end neural network for 4D cardiac CT reconstruction using single-beat scans	29
Cancer prediction from few amounts of histology samples through self-attention based multi-routines cross-domains network	29
Impact of respiratory motion on proton pencil beam scanning FLASH radiotherapy: an in silico and phantom measurement study	29
Evaluation of auto-segmentation for brachytherapy of postoperative cervical cancer using deep learning-based workflow	28
A deep learning approach for automatic delineation of clinical target volume in stereotactic partial breast irradiation (S-PBI)	28
A motion model-guided 4D dose reconstruction for pencil beam scanned proton therapy	28
Seven general radiography x-ray detectors with pixel sizes ranging from 175 to 76 μm: technical evaluation with the focus on orthopaedic imaging	28
Feasibility of CycleGAN enhanced low dose CBCT imaging for prostate radiotherapy dose calculation	27
Activity recovery for differently shaped objects in quantitative SPECT	27
Predicting time-of-flight with Cerenkov light in BGO: a three-stage network approach with multiple timing kernels prior	27
Automatic stent struts detection in optical coherence tomography based on a multiple attention convolutional model	27
Proton bunch monitors for the clinical translation of prompt gamma-ray timing	27
A GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo code, RT² for coupled transport of photon, electron/positron, and neutron	27
A dynamic approach for MR T2-weighted pelvic imaging	27
Personalized 3D-printed anthropomorphic phantoms for dosimetry in charged particle fields	27
Dual- and multi-energy CT for particle stopping-power estimation: current state, challenges and potential	26
Improving cone-beam CT quality using a cycle-residual connection with a dilated convolution-consistent generative adversarial network	26
Improving respiratory signal prediction with a deep neural network and simple changes to the input and output data format	25
Magnetic resonance cavitation imaging for the monitoring of ultrasound therapies	25
Radiological injuries under low energy x-rays in mice depending on dose and protocol: comparative characterization of lesion severity and impact of the in vivo bone response on retrospective do	25
Measurements of the noise power spectrum for digital x-ray imaging devices	25
Utilization of focused ultrasound for opening of the blood-nerve barrier	24

Clinical dose assessment for scanned carbon-ion radiotherapy using linear energy transfer measurements and Monte Carlo simulations	24
An integrated 3D printed radioluminescent-based phantom for quality assurance on a robotic-arm linac	24
Assessing liver fibrosis distribution through liver elasticity estimates obtained using a biomechanical model of respiratory motion with magnetic resonance elastography	24
Erratum: The magnetic field dependent displacement effect and its correction in reference and relative dosimetry (2022 Phys. Med. Biol. 67 045004)	24
Predicting the hotspot location and motor threshold prior to transcranial magnetic stimulation using electric field modelling	24
Design, construction, and dosimetry of 3D printed heterogeneous phantoms for synchrotron brain cancer radiation therapy quality assurance	23
¹⁸F-PSMA-1007 salivary gland dosimetry: comparison between different methods for dose calculation and assessment of inter- and intra-patient variability	23
IPEM code of practice for proton therapy dosimetry based on the NPL primary standard proton calorimeter calibration service	23
Real-time 3D synthetic MRI based on kV imaging for motion monitoring of abdominal radiotherapy in a conventional LINAC	22
Validation of a deep learning-based material estimation model for Monte Carlo dose calculation in proton therapy	22
Influence of different factors on registration error in a 1.5 T MR-guided linac	22
Consistency of muscle fibers directionality in human thigh derived from diffusion-weighted MRI	22
A comparison of measured and treatment planning system out-of-field dose for a 1.5 T MR linac	22
Adaptive dual-energy algorithm based on pre-calibrated weighting factors for chest radiography	22
X-ray CT adaptation based on a 2D–3D deformable image registration framework using simulated in-room proton radiographies	21
Exploiting network optimization stability for enhanced PET image denoising using deep image prior	21
Magnetic resonance imaging of blood perfusion rate based on Helmholtz decomposition of heat flux	21
Assessing suitability and stability of materials for a head and neck anthropomorphic multimodality (MRI/CT) phantoms for radiotherapy	21
Near-field coded-mask technique and its potential for proton therapy monitoring	21
A single-step regression method based on transformer for retinal layer segmentation	21
GEANT4-DNA simulation of temperature-dependent and pH-dependent yields of chemical radiolytic species	21
Fast Monte Carlo log-based framework for robust 4D dose evaluation in proton therapy	21
Sacroiliitis diagnosis based on interpretable features and multi-task learning	20
Detection of range shifts in proton beam therapy using the J-PET scanner: a patient simulation study	20
Deep learning based unpaired image-to-image translation applications for medical physics: a systematic review	20
Effects of tissue heterogeneity and comparisons of collapsed cone and Monte Carlo fast neutron patient dosimetry using the University of Washington clinical neutron therapy system (CNTS)	20
Micro-CT imaging of multiple K-edge elements using GaAs and CdTe photon counting detectors	20
Pairwise attention-enhanced adversarial model for automatic bone segmentation in CT images	20
Absorbed-dose-to-water measurement using alanine in ultra-high-pulse-dose-rate electron beams	20
Magnetocardiography using optically pumped magnetometers array to detect acute myocardial infarction and premature ventricular contractions in dogs	20
Radio-immune response modelling for spatially fractionated radiotherapy	20
Variable RBE in proton radiotherapy: a comparative study with the predictive Mayo Clinic Florida microdosimetric kinetic model and phenomenological models of cell survival	20
Improving diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound texture features in detecting and quantifying hepatic steatosis using various beamforming sound speeds	20
Improving coronary ultrafast Doppler angiography using fractional moving blood volume and motion-adaptive ensemble length	20
Towards a safe and efficient clinical implementation of machine learning in radiation oncology by exploring model interpretability, explainability and data-model dependency	20
Derivation and properties of the convolution model for MRI gradient-induced cardiac stimulation	20
Deformable image registration with deep network priors: a study on longitudinal PET images	20
DFUSNN: zero-shot dual-domain fusion unsupervised neural network for parallel MRI reconstruction	20
Improving breast tumor segmentation via shape-wise prior-guided information on cone-beam breast CT images	20
Characterization of breast tissues in density and effective atomic number basis via spectral X-ray computed tomography	20
Magneto- and electrophosphene thresholds in the retina: a dosimetry modeling study	20
Joint EURADOS WG9-WG11 rem-counter intercomparison in a Mevion S250i proton therapy facility with Hyperscan pulsed synchrocyclotron	19
Evaluating photon-counting computed tomography for quantitative material characteristics and material differentiation in radiotherapy	19
The impact of ion chamber components on k _B,Q for reference dosimetry in MRgRT	19
Using oxygen dose histograms to quantify voxelised ultra-high dose rate (FLASH) effects in multiple radiation modalities	19
Generation of quantification maps and weighted images from synthetic magnetic resonance imaging using deep learning network	19
Deformable 3D-2D registration for high-precision guidance and verification of neuroelectrode placement	19
A probabilistic approach for determining Monte Carlo beam source parameters: I. Modeling of a CyberKnife M6 unit	19
Shear wave elastography biases in abdominal wall layers characterization	19
Resolution-dependent MRI-to-CT translation for orthotopic breast cancer models using deep learning	19
A systematic approach for calibrating a Monte Carlo code to a treatment planning system for obtaining dose, LET, variable proton RBE and out-of-field dose	19
Uncertainty quantification in the assessment of human exposure to pulsed or multi-frequency fields	19
Artificial intelligence based deconvolving on megavoltage photon beam profiles for radiotherapy applications	19
High-temporal-resolution dynamic PET imaging based on a kinetic-induced voxel filter	19
3Dπ: three-dimensional positron imaging, a novel total-body PET scanner using xenon-doped liquid argon scintillator	18
The effect of electron backscatter and charge build up in media on beam current transformer signal for ultra-high dose rate (FLASH) electron beam monitoring	18
Realization of the absorbed dose to water for 70 kV electronic brachytherapy sources for surface applications	18
Simulation study on the performance of time-over-threshold based positioning in monolithic PET detectors	18
A biological optimization method for carbon therapy via iterative Jacobian-based linearization	18
Data driven surrogate signal extraction for dynamic PET using selective PCA: time windows versus the combination of components	18
Resolving inter-crystal scatter in a light-sharing depth-encoding PET detector	18
Ultra-high energy spectral prompt PET	18
Estimating the hysteresis loss in magnetic nanoparticles by magnetic particle spectroscopy	18
Towards magnetic-field-modulated radiotherapy (MagMRT) with an MR-LINAC—a Monte Carlo study	18
A robust framework with knowledge-guided planning and fiducial-based registration for bronchoscopy navigation system	18
First experimental time-of-flight-based proton radiography using low gain avalanche diodes	17
A finite volume approach to dosimetric calculations in diffusing alpha-emitters radiation therapy	17
Full waveform inversion using frequency shift envelope-based global correlation norm for ultrasound computed tomography	17
Changes in cerebral cortex activity during a simple motor task after MRgFUS treatment in patients affected by essential tremor and Parkinson's disease: a pilot study using functional NIRS	17
Setup and characterisation according to NEMA NU 4 of the phenoPET scanner, a PET system dedicated for plant sciences	17
Real-time 4D MRI using MR signature matching (MRSIGMA) on a 1.5T MR-Linac system	17
Optimizing normal tissue sparing via spatiotemporal optimization under equivalent tumor-radical efficacy	17
Simulating atherosclerotic plaque mechanics using polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) cryogel artery phantoms, ultrasound imaging and inverse finite element analysis	17
Method for comparison of data driven gating algorithms in emission tomography	17
SPECT imaging of ²²⁶Ac as a theranostic isotope for ²²⁵Ac radiopharmaceutical development	16
Fluid compartments influence elastography of the aging mouse brain	16
Disentangled deep learning method for interior tomographic reconstruction of low-dose x-ray CT	16
Power laws prevail in medical ultrasound	16
3D pyramidal densely connected network with cross-frame uncertainty guidance for intravascular ultrasound sequence segmentation	16
Regional perception and multi-scale feature fusion network for cardiac segmentation	16

Intensive vision-guided network for radiology report generation	16
Accelerated partial separable model using dimension-reduced optimization technique for ultra-fast cardiac MRI	16
A tomographic reconstruction algorithm for cross-sectional imaging of IMRT beams from six projections	16
Theoretical optimal	16
Memory-enhanced and multi-domain learning-based deep unrolling network for medical image reconstruction	16
A mask-compatible, radiolucent, 8-channel head and neck receive array for MRI-guided radiotherapy treatments and pre-treatment simulation	16
Validation of complex radiotherapy techniques using polymer gel dosimetry	16
Geometric evaluations of CT and MRI based deep learning segmentation for brain OARs in radiotherapy	16
SCA-Former: transformer-like network based on stream-cross attention for medical image segmentation	16
Deep learning for high-resolution dose prediction in high dose rate brachytherapy for breast cancer treatment	15
Validation of Monte Carlo simulated absorbed-dose-to-water inside a custom SPECT/CT phantom using active and passive dosimeters: a feasibility study using ^99mTc	15
Pulse-echo ultrasound attenuation tomography	15
State of the art on microbubble cavitation monitoring and feedback control for blood-brain-barrier opening using focused ultrasound	15
Basis and current state of computed tomography perfusion imaging: a review	15
Effects of frequency on bubble-cloud behavior and ablation efficiency in intrinsic threshold histotripsy	15
Measurement and image-based estimation of dielectric properties of biological tissues —past, present, and future—	15
3D-localization of single point-like gamma sources with a coded aperture camera	15
Reflections on beam configuration optimization for intensity-modulated proton therapy	15
Design and testing of an MR-conditional six-degree-of-freedom phantom robot	15
Pulsed RF knock-out extraction: a potential enabler for FLASH hadrontherapy in the Bragg peak	15
The dose-related plateau effect of surviving fraction in normal tissue during the ultra-high-dose-rate radiotherapy	15
Image quality evaluation of a new high-performance ring-gantry cone-beam computed tomography imager	15
A 3D transfer learning approach for identifying multiple simultaneous errors during radiotherapy	15
CoTrFuse: a novel framework by fusing CNN and transformer for medical image segmentation	15
Model-based deep CNN-regularized reconstruction for digital breast tomosynthesis with a task-based CNN image assessment approach	15
IPEM topical report: results of a 2020 UK survey on the use of online treatment monitoring solutions for IMRT/VMAT	15
In vivo adaptive focusing for clinical contrast-enhanced transcranial ultrasound imaging in human	15
Shoot-through proton FLASH irradiation lowers linear energy transfer in organs at risk for neurological tumors and is robust against density variations	15
Prospectively-validated deep learning model for segmenting swallowing and chewing structures in CT	15
Current best estimates of beam quality correction factors for reference dosimetry of clinical proton beams	15
A dosimetrically motivated pathfinding approach for non-isocentric dynamic trajectory radiotherapy	15
On the robustness of multilateration of ionoacoustic signals for localization of the Bragg peak at pre-clinical proton beam energies in water	15
Numerical simulations of an integrated radio-frequency/wireless coil design for simultaneous acquisition and wireless transfer of magnetic resonance imaging data	15
Deep learning based direct segmentation assisted by deformable image registration for cone-beam CT based auto-segmentation for adaptive radiotherapy	14
The first mobile photon-counting detector CT: the human images and technical performance study	14
The effect of non-ionizing excitations on the diffusion of ion species and inter-track correlations in FLASH ultra-high dose rate radiotherapy	14
Ex vivo validation of non-invasive phase correction for transspine focused ultrasound: model performance and target feasibility	14
Depth-of-interaction encoding techniques for pixelated PET detectors enabled by machine learning methods and fast waveform digitization	14
Collection efficiencies of ionization chambers in pulsed radiation beams: an exact solution of an ion recombination model including free electron effects	14
Predicting distant metastases in soft-tissue sarcomas from PET-CT scans using constrained hierarchical multi-modality feature learning	14
Anatomy-wise lung ventilation imaging for precise functional lung avoidance radiation therapy	14
Nano-scale simulation of neuronal damage by galactic cosmic rays	14
Low frequency magnetic field induction factors for exposure assessment in the human hand	14
Field output correction factors and electron fluence perturbation of the microSilicon and microSilicon X detectors	14
PETcoil: first results from a second-generation RF-penetrable TOF-PET brain insert for simultaneous PET/MRI	14
Experimental determination of modulation power of lung tissue for particle therapy	14
Proton CT on biological phantoms for x-ray CT calibration in proton treatment planning	14
An effective edge conductivity for reducing staircasing error in induced electric field computation for low-frequency magnetic field dosimetry	14
MCSF-Net: a multi-scale channel spatial fusion network for real-time polyp segmentation	14
First clinical implementation of a highly efficient daily online adapted proton therapy (DAPT) workflow	14
Minimizing susceptibility-induced BOLD sensitivity loss in multi-band accelerated fMRI using point spread function mapping and gradient reversal	14
Breaking boundaries in radiology: redefining AI diagnostics via raw data ahead of reconstruction	14
Real-time integrated modeling of soft tissue deformation and stress based on deep learning	14
Suppressing HIFU interference in ultrasound images using 1D U-Net-based neural networks	14
Monte Carlo optimization of a GRID collimator for preclinical megavoltage ultra-high dose rate spatially-fractionated radiation therapy	14
Real-time measurement of two-dimensional LET distributions of proton beams using scintillators	13
Improved accuracy of relative electron density and proton stopping power ratio through CycleGAN machine learning	13
Experimental demonstration of accurate Bragg peak localization with ionoacoustic tandem phase detection (iTPD)	13
Dual-branch hybrid encoding embedded network for histopathology image classification	13
Dual-space disentangled-multimodal network (DDM-net) for glioma diagnosis and prognosis with incomplete pathology and genomic data	13
Deep morphological recognition of kidney stones using intra-operative endoscopic digital videos	13
Dermoscopy lesion classification based on GANs and a fuzzy rank-based ensemble of CNN models	13
An inception network for positron emission tomography based dose estimation in carbon ion therapy	13
Review of GPU-based Monte Carlo simulation platforms for transmission and emission tomography in medicine	13
Precision assessment of bowel motion quantification using 3D cine-MRI for radiotherapy	13
Dose-response dependencies of OSL dosimeters in conventional linacs and 1.5T MR-linacs: an experimental and Monte Carlo study	13
Robust optimization incorporating weekly predicted anatomical CTs in IMPT of nasopharyngeal cancer	13
FAST (fast analytical simulator of tracer)-PET: an accurate and efficient PET analytical simulation tool	13
A multi-resolution TOF-DOI detector for human brain dedicated PET scanner	13
RadiSeq: a single- and bulk-cell whole-genome DNA sequencing simulator for radiation-damaged cell models	13
Ultra-high field MRI: parallel-transmit arrays and RF pulse design	13
A multi-institutional comparison of acceptance testing data for a 0.35 T MRI scanner	13
External beam irradiation angle measurement using a hybrid Cerenkov-scintillation detector	13
Monte Carlo-based dosimetry and optimization of a custom alpha cell irradiation setup	13
Performance evaluation of dual-ended readout PET detectors based on BGO arrays with different reflector arrangements	13
A simulation framework for preclinical proton irradiation workflow	13
Spatially fractionated radiation therapy: a critical review on current status of clinical and preclinical studies and knowledge gaps	13
Ion and secondary imaging	13
Continuous implicit neural representation for arbitrary super-resolution of system matrix in magnetic particle imaging	13
Research and application of omics and artificial intelligence in cancer	13
ReMAR: a preoperative CT angiography guided metal artifact reduction framework designed for follow-up CTA of endovascular coiling	13
Reply to Comments on ‘Modeling for predicting survival fraction of cells after ultra-high dose rate irradiation’	13
Comparison of semi-automatic and manual segmentation methods for tumor delineation on head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) positron emission tomography (PET) images	13
Reverberation clutter signal suppression in ultrasound attenuation estimation using wavelet-based robust principal component analysis	13
Validation of patient-specific deep learning markerless lung tumor tracking aided by 4DCBCT	13
Sparse-Laplace hybrid graph manifold method for fluorescence molecular tomography	13
Can a ToF-PET photon attenuation reconstruction test stopping-power estimations in proton therapy? A phantom study	13
Dosimetric characterization of an encapsulated waterproof silicon carbide detector with UHDR electron and proton beams for FLASH radiotherapy	12
Development of a more accurate Geant4 quantum molecular dynamics model for hadron therapy	12
Method of sparse-view coded-aperture x-ray diffraction tomography	12
Space-constrained optimized Tikhonov regularization method for 3D hemorrhage reconstruction by open magnetic induction tomography	12
Multi-task multi-level feature adversarial network for joint Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and atrophy localization using sMRI	12
Characterization of susceptibility artifacts in magnetic resonance thermometry images during laser interstitial thermal therapy: dimension analysis and temperature error estimation	12
The impact of motion on onboard MRI-guided pencil beam scanned proton therapy treatments	12
Time-resolved biological effective dose distributions in stereotactic radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas: a comparative analysis between two dedicated stereotactic radiosurgery systems	12