OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical Physics 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Past AAPM President: 2003	126
Past AAPM President: 2006	118
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Technical note: Determination of proton linear energy transfer from the integral depth dose	103
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A personal perspective on the development and future of cone‐beam CT for image‐guided radiotherapy	74
Innovative integration of augmented reality and optical surface imaging: A coarse‐to‐precise system for radiotherapy positioning	57
MR‐guided ion therapy: Detector response in magnetic fields during carbon ion irradiation	55
A novel image segmentation network with multi‐scale and flow‐guided attention for early screening of vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia (VAIN)	51
High spatiotemporal‐resolution abdominal 4D‐MRI through respiratory‐synchronized frame collaborative reconstruction	50
Protocol optimization for functional cardiac CT imaging using noise emulation in the raw data domain	50
Impact of cone‐beam computed tomography artifacts on dose calculation accuracy for lung cancer	47
A nonconvex model‐based combined geometric calibration scheme for micro cone‐beam CT with irregular trajectories	46
Eigenbin compression for reducing photon‐counting CT data size	45
Stability analysis of patient‐specific 4DCT‐ and 4DCBCT‐based correspondence models	45
Super‐resolved q‐space learning of diffusion MRI	44
Experimental and Monte Carlo‐based determination of magnetic field correction factors kB,Q$k_{B,Q}$ in high‐energy photon fields for two ionization chambers	43
Incorporating intra‐fractional delta‐radiomics from 4DCT improves local recurrence prediction	42
Evaluation of a conventionally shielded proton treatment room for FLASH radiotherapy	42
MRI‐based radiomics nomogram for the preoperative prediction of deep myometrial invasion of FIGO stage I endometrial carcinoma	40
Assisted annotation in Deep LOGISMOS: Simultaneous multi‐compartment 3D MRI segmentation of calf muscles	39
Healthy lung and heart reference volumes and dosimetry phantoms from automatic CT segmentation	39
Effect of angular dependence for small‐field dosimetry using seven different detectors	37
Accurate total‐body K_i parametric imaging with shortened dynamic ¹⁸F‐FDG PET scan durations via effective data processing	37

Technical note: High‐efficient and wireless transcranial ultrasound excitation based on electromagnetic acoustic transducer	36
A repository of grade 1 and 2 meningioma MRIs in a public dataset for radiomics reproducibility tests	35
Segmentation of pancreatic tumors based on multi‐scale convolution and channel attention mechanism in the encoder‐decoder scheme	34
Simulation studies of a full‐ring, CZT SPECT system for whole‐body imaging of ^99mTc and ¹⁷⁷Lu	34
A physics‐driven neural network with parameter embedding for generating quantitative MR maps from weighted images	34
Lung CT harmonization of paired reconstruction kernel images using generative adversarial networks	34
A theoretical study of H₂O₂ as the surrogate of dose in minibeam radiotherapy, with a diffusion model considering radical removal process	34
Applying deep generative model in plan review of intensity modulated radiotherapy	32
Hepatic and portal vein segmentation with dual‐stream deep neural network	32
Feasibility study of surface deformation‐based dosimetry for breast cancer radiotherapy	31
Transfer learning for DL‐based Synthetic CT after reconstruction algorithm upgrade in a proton therapy clinic	31
Pulsed beam monitoring for electron FLASH	31
Deep learning‐based estimation of respiration‐induced deformation from surface motion: A proof‐of‐concept study on 4D thoracic image synthesis	31
Determining the reliable feature change in longitudinal radiomics studies: A methodological approach using the reliable change index	31
Prior‐guided automatic delineation of post‐radiotherapy gross tumor volume for esophageal cancer	30
AI in breast imaging: A systematic review of reader studies evaluating design, performance, and clinical impact	30
Machine learning model for fast prediction and uncertainty quantification of needle deflection during prostate biopsy	30
EBC‐Net: 3D semi‐supervised segmentation of pancreas based on edge‐biased consistency regularization in dual perturbation space	29
Multi‐scale statistical deformation based co‐registration of prostate MRI and post‐surgical whole mount histopathology	29
A multi‐scale, multi‐region and attention mechanism‐based deep learning framework for prediction of grading in hepatocellular carcinoma	29
A simple algorithm to derive virtual non‐contrast electron density from dual‐energy computed tomography data for radiotherapy treatment planning	29
Time‐resolved dose rate measurements in pencil beam scanning proton FLASH therapy with a fiber‐coupled scintillator detector system	29
Ultra‐low dose hip CT‐based automated measurement of volumetric bone mineral density at proximal femoral subregions	29
A deep supervised transformer U‐shaped full‐resolution residual network for the segmentation of breast ultrasound image	28
A new visual State Space Model for low‐dose CT denoising	28
Lesion‐guided selective multi‐modal integration for prostate cancer segmentation and PI‐RADS grading in MP‐MRI	28
Lung cancer dose distribution prediction based on a dual‐branch feature extraction network	28
Pathology steered stratification network for subtype identification in Alzheimer's disease	28
Squeeze‐and‐excitation‐attention‐based mobile vision transformer for grading recognition of bladder prolapse in pelvic MRI images	27
Technical note: Assessment of radiation measurement devices for the detection of [¹⁷⁷Lu]Lu‐labeled radiopharmaceuticals containing [^177mLu]Lu‐impurities	27
Optimization of proton pencil beam positioning in collimated fields	27
Fusion of CT images and clinical variables based on deep learning for predicting invasiveness risk of stage I lung adenocarcinoma	27
Scanned particle‐beam tracking with beam correction based on predictive volumetric imaging: A simulation study	27
Evaluation of split renal dysfunction using radiomics based on magnetic resonance diffusion‐weighted imaging	27
A robust optimization model for intensity‐modulated radiotherapy: Cheap‐Minimax	27
AAPM TG report 330: EPID‐based quality assurance of linear accelerators	27
Radiomics‐based kidney lesion classification: Mitigating batch effect with nested combat harmonization	27
Predicting radiation‐induced immune suppression in lung cancer patients treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy	27
Performance evaluation of a clinical SPECT system with multifocal collimator for brain studies	27
Macro Monte Carlo dose calculation for very high energy electron (VHEE) radiotherapy	26
Quantitative ultrasound moment‐based double Nakagami distribution method	26
Streak artefact removal in x‐ray dark‐field computed tomography using a convolutional neural network	26
Real‐time liver motion estimation via deep learning‐based angle‐agnostic X‐ray imaging	25
Multi‐scale nested graph transformer with graph operations: Advancing high‐resolution chest x‐ray classification	25
Feasibility of tumor detection with a transmission‐based microwave imaging system	25
Predictive stroke risk model with vision transformer‐based Doppler features	25
Channelized hotelling observer‐based low‐contrast detectability on the ACR CT accreditation phantom: Part II. Repeatability study	25
Development of patient‐specific pre‐treatment verification procedure for FLASH proton therapy based on time resolved film dosimetry	25
Transcranial ultrasound simulations: A review	24
Whole‐body tumor segmentation from PET/CT images using a two‐stage cascaded neural network with camouflaged object detection mechanisms	24

The Cut‐Sort‐Group algorithm for efficient delivery of collimated step‐and‐shoot proton arc therapy	24
Estimation of proton stopping power from principal components of dual‐energy CT virtual monoenergetic images	24
Efficient proton arc optimization and delivery through energy layer pre‐selection and post‐filtering	24
An attention mechanism‐based lightweight UNet for musculoskeletal ultrasound image segmentation	24
AAPM Task Group Report 238: 3D C‐arms with volumetric imaging capability*	24
Static proton arc therapy: Comprehensive plan quality evaluation and first clinical treatments in patients with complex head and neck targets	24
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Physical dose validation of dynamic treatment for Gamma Knife radiosurgery	23
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Prediction of electron‐solid interaction parameters using machine learning	23
Deep‐Interior: A new pathway to interior tomographic image reconstruction via a weighted backprojection and deep learning	23
Quality assurance assessment of intra‐acquisition diffusion‐weighted and T2‐weighted magnetic resonance imaging registration and contour propagation for head and neck cancer radiotherapy	23
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Past AAPM President: 2020	23
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An exploratory study on integrating radiomics with vision transformers for enhancing medical imaging classification accuracy	23
Photon counting x‐ray detectors as scatter probes	23
Improving the Scientific Impact of Medical Physics: Challenges and Opportunities: Editor‐in‐Chief 2014–2020	22
Liver fibrosis automatic diagnosis utilizing dense‐fusion attention contrastive learning network	22
Electron ultra‐high dose rate FLASH irradiation study using a clinical linac: Linac modification, dosimetry, and radiobiological outcome	22
MRI‐based quantification of carbon and oxygen concentrations in human soft tissues for range verification in proton therapy	22
Aberration correction by polynomial approximation for synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging	22
Past AAPM President: 2010	22
End‐to‐end deep learning approach for uterine artery‐ovarian artery anastomosis detection from digital subtraction angiography sequences	22
Automated determination of the ion‐recombination correction factor (k_sat) in ultra‐high dose rate electron radiation therapy	22
Open‐source hardware and software for the measurement, characterization, reporting, and correction of geometric distortion in MRI	22
Past AAPM President: 2002	22
Extracting transition features among brain states based on coarse‐grained similarity measurement for autism spectrum disorder analysis	22
Effect of a consistent reconstruction algorithm on inter‐scanner reproducibility in diffusion MRI	22
A feasibility study on deep‐neural‐network‐based dose‐neutral dual‐energy digital breast tomosynthesis	22
Commissioning of respiratory‐gated 4D dynamic dose calculations for various gating widths without spot timestamp in proton pencil beam scanning	22
Improved segmentation of cardiac structures in echocardiograms for diastolic function evaluation	21
U‐shaped network combining dual‐stream fusion mamba and redesigned multilayer perceptron for myocardial pathology segmentation	21
More than pretty pictures: 3‐D treatment planning and conformal therapy	21
Using 3D deep features from CT scans for cancer prognosis based on a video classification model: A multi‐dataset feasibility study	21
An MR‐only deep learning inference model‐based dose estimation algorithm for MR‐guided adaptive radiation therapy	21
Preserving noise texture through training data curation for deep learning denoising of high‐resolution cardiac EID‐CT	21
Evaluation of deformable image registration accuracy for liver re‐irradiation patients using contrast and non‐contrast computed tomography images	21
Automatic x‐ray to CT registration using embedding reconstruction and lite cross‐attention	21
A virtual imaging study of microcalcification detection performance in digital breast tomosynthesis: Patients versus 3D textured phantoms	21
Investigation on the physical dose filtered by linear energy transfer for treatment plan evaluation in carbon ion therapy	21
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Characterizing diamond detectors for various dose and dose rate measurements in scanned carbon and oxygen beams	20
Development of a proof‐of‐concept treatment planning system for multi‐beam photon FLASH intensity modulated radiation therapy	20
Annihilation‐Net: Learned annihilation relation for dynamic MR imaging	20
Improved brain metastases segmentation using generative adversarial network and conditional random field optimization mask R‐CNN	20
Ultra‐high dose rate FLASH radiation therapy for cancer	20
Correction to “Early generation dynamic and static proton arc treatment planning algorithms assessment in oropharyngeal cancer patients”	20
Comparing organ and effective dose of various CT localizer acquisition strategies: A Monte Carlo study	20
Prediction of early recurrence of adult‐type diffuse gliomas following radiotherapy using multi‐modal magnetic resonance images	20
Anatomical position‐guided auto‐segmentation and dosimetric evaluation of vestibular schwannomas in gamma knife radiosurgery	20
Estimating the differences between inter‐operator contrast enhancement in cerebral CT angiography	20
Direct estimation of regional lung volume change from paired and single CT images using residual regression neural network	20
Intra‐operative soft tissue perfusion assessment using X‐ray angiography images: ischemic stroke study	20
Development and validation of a TOPAS Monte Carlo model for a 0.5 T bi‐planar Linac‐MR	20
Audit of data from examination image headers collected for quality assurance in the ECOG‐ACRIN EA1151 tomosynthesis mammographic imaging screening trial (TMIST)	20
Monte Carlo simulation‐based patient‐specific QA using machine log files for line‐scanning proton radiation therapy	20
Study of compatibility between a 3T MR system and detector modules for a second‐generation RF‐penetrable TOF‐PET insert for simultaneous PET/MRI	20
Commissioning of the RefleXion X1 Linear Accelerator and Development of a Consensus Reference Beam Model	19
Semi‐supervised medical image segmentation via cross‐guidance and feature‐level consistency dual regularization schemes	19
Image‐domain material decomposition for dual‐energy CT using unsupervised learning with data‐fidelity loss	19
A novel tool for predicting the dose distribution of non‐sealed ¹⁸⁸Re (Rhenium) resin in non‐melanoma skin cancers (NMSC) patients	19
A clustering‐based approach to address correlated features in predicting genitourinary toxicity from MRI‐guided prostate SBRT	19
Deep learning‐based low‐dose CT simulator for non‐linear reconstruction methods	19
Generation of synthetic megavoltage CT for MRI‐only radiotherapy treatment planning using a 3D deep convolutional neural network	19
Feasibility of convection‐enhanced delivery of unlabeled ²²⁵ Ac for glioblastoma: Transport, dosimetry, and clonogenic survival modeling	18
Monte Carlo modeling of the field size dependency for thin window plane‐parallel chambers in kilovoltage X‐ray reference dosimetry	18
Clinical commissioning of the first point‐of‐care spectral photon‐counting CT for the upper extremities	18
Transducer module apodization to reduce bone heating during focused ultrasound uterine fibroid ablation with phased arrays: A numerical study	18
A semi‐automatic analytical methodology for characterizing the energy consumption of MRI systems using load duration curves	18
Stopping‐power ratio estimation for proton radiotherapy using dual‐energy computed tomography and prior‐image constrained denoising	18
A novel transformer‐based ECG dimensionality reduction stacked auto‐encoders for arrhythmia beat detection	18
Prediction of VMAT gamma passing rates using 3D CNNs based on leaf position analysis and gradient class activation mapping for plan complexity evaluation	18
Theoretical modeling and performance analysis of a direct‐indirect dual‐layer flat‐panel detector for contrast‐enhanced breast imaging	18
A novel cross‐modal data augmentation method based on contrastive unpaired translation network for kidney segmentation in ultrasound imaging	18
Semi‐supervised liver segmentation based on local regions self‐supervision	18
Training of a deep learning based digital subtraction angiography method using synthetic data	18
A parallel algorithm for generating Pareto‐optimal radiosurgery treatment plans	18

A hybrid training database and evaluation benchmark for assessing metal artifact reduction methods for X‐ray CT imaging	18
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Deep learning‐based hippocampus asymmetry assessment for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis	18
Detection and quantification of small and low‐uptake lesions for differentiated thyroid carcinoma using non‐time‐of‐flight iodine‐124 PET/MRI	18
Assessment of dual time point protocols to produce parametric K_i images in FDG PET/CT: A virtual clinical study	18
Development of an automated treatment planning approach for lattice radiation therapy	17
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Preoperative prediction of lymph node metastasis in colorectal cancer using ¹⁸F‐FDG PET/CT peritumoral radiomics analysis	17
Challenges in modeling the Agility multileaf collimator in treatment planning systems and current needs for improvement	17
Nanoscale gold nanoparticle (GNP)‐laden tumor cell model and its use for estimation of intracellular dose from GNP‐induced secondary electrons	17
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Transformer‐based deep learning for predicting brain tumor recurrence using magnetic resonance imaging	17
Joint radial trajectory correction for accelerated T₂^* mapping on an MR‐Linac	17
Absorbed dose differences between twin fetuses for pregnancy patients in CT examinations	17
Most DNA repair defects do not modify the relationship between relative biological effectiveness and linear energy transfer in CRISPR‐edited cells	17
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A motion analysis of cardiac substructures for guiding stereotactic arrhythmia radiotherapy motion management	17
On the field size definition and field output factors in small field dosimetry	17
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An optimized framework for cone‐beam computed tomography‐based online evaluation for proton therapy	17
Accelerated respiratory‐resolved 4D‐MRI with separable spatio‐temporal neural networks	17
Seventieth Annual Scientific Meeting of Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists, Delta Hotels, Regina, Saskatchewan, June 5–8, 2024	16
Self‐calibrated epipolar reconstruction for assessment of aneurysms in the internal carotid artery using in‐silico biplane angiograms	16
Novel magnetic embolic MRI imageable particles with anticancer drug release for transcatheter arterial embolization and magnetic ablation	16
Head radiotherapy positioning guidance system based on feature recognition and automatic annotation: Clinical validation and error analysis	16
Linear Boltzmann equation solver for voxel‐level dosimetry in radiopharmaceutical therapy: Comparison with Monte Carlo and kernel convolution	16
Accuracy of quantitative ¹⁷⁷ Lu SPECT/CT imaging: A systematic review	16
Decomposition‐based harmonization for quantitative PET imaging across scanners and radiotracers	16
A noise robust image reconstruction using slice aware cycle interpolator network for parallel imaging in MRI	16
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A hemodynamic study of the relationship between the left and right liver volumes and the blood flow distribution in portal vein branches	16
CT data harmonization via learned virtual monoenergetic imaging for cross‐kV scan translation and radiomics reproducibility	16
An adaptive proton FLASH therapy using modularized pin ridge filter	16
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Multi‐energy blended CBCT spectral imaging and scatter‐decoupled material decomposition using a spectral modulator with flying focal spot (SMFFS)	16
Timing‐synchronized passive ultrasound imaging of cavitation using eigenspace‐based minimum variance beamforming and principal component analysis	16
Model‐based perfusion reconstruction with time separation technique in cone‐beam CT dynamic liver perfusion imaging	16
AAPM should sunset TG‐51 and adopt IAEA TRS‐398	16
A computer‐aided diagnosis tool in prostate cancer patients with biochemical recurrence using 18F‐PSMA PET/CT imaging	16
A comprehensive investigation of the performance of a commercial scintillator system for applications in electron FLASH radiotherapy	16
Optical surface information‐based respiratory phase‐sorting and motion‐incorporated reconstruction for SPECT imaging	16
A persistent belief in radiopharmaceutical therapy	16
Kinematics method of population‐based planning target volume to improve coverage and pharyngeal constrictor sparing in oropharyngeal cancer	15
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Improved precision of SPECT myocardial blood flow using a net tracer retention model	15
Detection of phase‐binning and interpolation artifacts in 4‐dimensional computed tomography imaging using deep learning and rule‐based approaches	15
Accelerated dynamic MR imaging with joint balanced low‐rank tensor and sparsity constraints	15
Minimum phantom size for megavoltage photon beam reference dosimetry	15
TEAM: Triangular‐mEsh Adaptive and Multiscale proton spot generation method	15
Correction to “A new emittance selection system to maximize beam transmission for low‐energy beams in cyclotron‐based proton therapy facilities with gantry”	15
Technical note: Cartilage imaging with sub‐cellular resolution using a laboratory‐based phase‐contrast x‐ray microscope	15
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A multi‐modal diffusion model for noise reduction of particle number limited Monte Carlo dose calculation for carbon ion radiotherapy	15
Framework for dual‐energy‐like chest radiography image synthesis from single‐energy computed tomography based on cycle‐consistent generative adversarial network	15
PUNDIT: Pulmonary nodule detection with image category transformation	15
Investigation of four‐dimensional (4D) Monte Carlo dose calculation in real‐time tumor tracking stereotatic body radiotherapy for lung cancers	15
MR imaging of proton beam‐induced oxygen depletion	15
An enhanced visual state space model for myocardial pathology segmentation in multi‐sequence cardiac MRI	15
AAPM Truth‐based CT (TrueCT) reconstruction grand challenge	15
Robust filtering of thin‐slice reconstructions improves lacunar stroke detection in CT perfusion imaging	15
AAPM 2024 66th Annual Meeting & Exhibition July 21–25 Los Angeles,CA	15
Impact of common artefacts on mass visibility in contrast‐enhanced mammography: A virtual imaging trial	15
Correction to “An adaptive proton FLASH therapy using modularized pin ridge filter”	15
Modeling RBE with other quantities than LET significantly improves prediction of in vitro cell survival for proton therapy	15
Non‐convex IMRT treatment planning using deep inverse optimization	15
Quantifying dose perturbations in high‐risk prostate radiotherapy due to translational and rotational motion of prostate and pelvic lymph nodes	15
Correction to “Impact of bowtie filter and detector collimation on multislice CT scatter profiles: A simulation study”	15
Benchmarking machine learning‐based real‐time respiratory signal predictors in 4D SBRT	15
Technique selection and technical developments for 2D dual‐energy subtraction angiography on an interventional C‐arm	14
Enhancing prostate cancer segmentation on multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging with background information and gland masks	14
Evaluating the robustness of deep learning models trained to diagnose idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis using a retrospective study	14
Accelerated RAKI reconstruction for multi‐slice cardiac cine applications	14
Self‐supervised structural similarity‐based convolutional neural network for cardiac diffusion tensor image denoising	14
An unsupervised sparse‐view CT reconstruction framework using combination of iterative deep image prior and ADMM	14
Past AAPM President: 1999	14
Technical note: System uncertainty on four‐ and eight‐channel parallel RF transmission for safe MRI of deep brain stimulation devices	14
Image‐guided surgery: Technology and opportunities for medical physics	14
FLASH irradiation‐induced acute lung injury promotes metastatic colonization via neutrophil extracellular trap formation	14
Automatic right ventricular segmentation for cine cardiac magnetic resonance images based on a new deep atlas network	14
Multi‐task generative model for high‐quality magnetic particle imaging reconstruction	14
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Technical note: A method to evaluate the effect of scanning beam delivery error on 3D dose and its utilization on carbon ion radiotherapy for prostate cancer	14
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Small‐field output factor dependence on the field size definition in MR‐Linac	14
Possibility of increasing linear energy transfer in multi‐ion radiotherapy for bone and soft tissue sarcomas	14
A multi‐stage fusion framework to classify breast lesions using deep learning and radiomics features computed from four‐view mammograms	14
Decentralized learning for medical image classification with prototypical contrastive network	14
Complexity‐based unsupervised machine learning for patient‐specific VMAT quality assurance	14
Development and verification of radiomics framework for computed tomography image segmentation	14
A likelihood‐based particle imaging filter using prior information	14
Technical note: Characterization, validation, and spectral optimization of a dedicated breast CT system for contrast‐enhanced imaging	14
Comparison of supervised‐learning approaches for designing a channelized observer for image quality assessment in CT	14
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Translational tumor control probability modeling for NSCLC: A two‐dimensional maximum‐likelihood framework	14