OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical Physics is 5. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Measured, calculated, and egs_brachy I‐125 dose distributions in a gold plaque for retinoblastoma treatment	147
A multi‐modality physical phantom for mimicking tumor heterogeneity patterns in PET/CT and PET/MRI	129
Influence of flow and susceptibility effects on spin dephasing in lung tissue	106
Issue Information	104
8+ Year Performance of the Gamma Knife Perfexion/Icon Patient Positioning System and Possibilities for Preemptive Fault Detection Using Statistical Process Control	98
Technical assessment of 2D and 3D imaging performance of an IGZO‐based flat‐panel X‐ray detector	94
Spectral CT using a fine grid structure and varying x‐ray incidence angle	86
Multi‐scale statistical deformation based co‐registration of prostate MRI and post‐surgical whole mount histopathology	82
Technical Note: A preliminary study of dual‐tracer PET image reconstruction guided by FDG and/or MR kernels	82
Combining physics‐based models with deep learning image synthesis and uncertainty in intraoperative cone‐beam CT of the brain	75
Evaluation of scatter rejection and correction performance of 2D antiscatter grids in cone beam computed tomography	73
Uncertainty‐aware refinement framework for ovarian tumor segmentation in CECT volume	69
Spectral information content of Compton scattering events in silicon photon counting detectors	69
Segmentation of lung nodules based on a refined segmentation network	66
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Technical note: 3D‐printed phantom for dedicated cardiac protocols and geometries in nuclear medicine	60
A repository of grade 1 and 2 meningioma MRIs in a public dataset for radiomics reproducibility tests	59
Technical note: Preprocessing of portal images to improve image quality of VMAT‐CT	57
Development and benchmarking diffusion magnetic resonance imaging analysis for integration into radiation treatment planning	56
Modeling absorbed alpha particle dose from diffusing alpha‐emitters radiation therapy in changing tissue volumes	55
Deformable lung 4DCT image registration via landmark‐driven cycle network	55
A simple algorithm to derive virtual non‐contrast electron density from dual‐energy computed tomography data for radiotherapy treatment planning	54
Withdrawal	53
AAPM Task Group Report 325: MRI static magnetic field homogeneity measurement and evaluation procedures – Guidance and resources	52
Efficient segmentation of fetal brain MRI based on the physical resolution	50

A rotating beam‐blocker method for cone beam CT scatter correction	48
A novel method for highly linear gradient coil design based on stream function	47
Unsupervised shape‐and‐texture‐based generative adversarial tuning of pre‐trained networks for carotid segmentation from 3D ultrasound images	46
Generating 3D images of VMAT plans for predictive models and activation maps associated with plan deliverability	45
Streak artefact removal in x‐ray dark‐field computed tomography using a convolutional neural network	44
A data‐driven intravoxel mean diffusivities distribution approach for molecular classifications and MIB‐1 prediction of gliomas	43
Monte Carlo simulations of microdosimetry and radiolytic species production at long time post proton irradiation using GATE and Geant4‐DNA	43
Nerve recognition in percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic discectomy using convolutional neural network	40
A combined non‐enhanced CT radiomics and clinical variable machine learning model for differentiating benign and malignant sub‐centimeter pulmonary solid nodules	38
Application of TVD‐Net for sagittal alignment and instability measurements in cervical spine radiographs	35
A streak artifact reduction algorithm in sparse‐view CT using a self‐supervised neural representation	35
High‐resolution 3T to 7T ADC map synthesis with a hybrid CNN‐transformer model	34
An integrated ultrasound imaging and abdominal compression device for respiratory motion management in radiation therapy	34
FDRN: A fast deformable registration network for medical images	33
Streaking artifact reduction for CBCT‐based synthetic CT generation in adaptive radiotherapy	33
Automated detection of aggressive and indolent prostate cancer on magnetic resonance imaging	33
Three‐dimensional image volumes from two‐dimensional digitally reconstructed radiographs: A deep learning approach in lower limb CT scans	33
Deep learning‐based AI model for signet‐ring cell carcinoma diagnosis and chemotherapy response prediction in gastric cancer	33
Simulation of a novel, non‐invasive radiation detector to measure the arterial input function for dynamic positron emission tomography	32
OpenKBP: The open‐access knowledge‐based planning grand challenge and dataset	32
Ventilation measurements using fast‐helical free‐breathing computed tomography	32
Learning low‐dose CT degradation from unpaired data with flow‐based model	31
A nonconvex model‐based combined geometric calibration scheme for micro cone‐beam CT with irregular trajectories	30
Fully automatic online geometric calibration for non‐circular cone‐beam CT orbits using fiducials with unknown placement	30
Quantitative assessment of ensemble coherency in contrast‐free ultrasound microvasculature imaging	29
Stereotactic radiosurgery commissioning and QA test cases—A TG‐119 approach for Stereotactic radiosurgery	29
AAPM Task Group 241: A medical physicist’s guide to MRI‐guided focused ultrasound body systems	29
Author index	29
Simultaneous temperature and viscosity estimation capability via magnetic nanoparticle relaxation	28
Technical note: Tracking target/chest relationship changes during motion‐synchronized tomotherapy treatments	28
Development of a neonate X‐ray phantom for 2D imaging applications using single‐tone inkjet printing	28
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Fixed beamlines can replace gantries for particle therapy	28
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Multiscale Monte Carlo simulations for dosimetry in x‐ray breast imaging: Part II ‐ Microscopic scales	27
Pretreatment information–aided automatic segmentation for online magnetic resonance imaging‐guided prostate radiotherapy	27
A deep learning approach to estimate x‐ray scatter in digital breast tomosynthesis: From phantom models to clinical applications	27
Issue Information	27
Pediatric evaluations for deep learning CT denoising	27
A multi‐scale, multi‐region and attention mechanism‐based deep learning framework for prediction of grading in hepatocellular carcinoma	27
Application of geometric shape‐based CT field‐of‐view extension algorithms in an all‐digital positron emission tomography/computed tomography system	27
Technical note: TERMA scaling as an effective heterogeneity correction model for convolution‐based external‐beam photon dose calculations	26
Low‐dose CT denoising with a high‐level feature refinement and dynamic convolution network	26
Monte Carlo‐derived ^99mTc uptake quantification with commercial planar MBI: Absolute tumor activity	26
Technical Note: Three‐dimensional QA of simultaneous integrated boost radiotherapy treatments by a dose‐volume histogram methodology and its comparison with 3D gamma results	26
Radiomics analysis of dual‐energy CT‐derived iodine maps for differentiating malignant from benign thyroid nodules	25
A comprehensive Monte Carlo study of CT dose metrics proposed by the AAPM Reports 111 and 200	25
A neural network with encoded visible edge prior for limited‐angle computed tomography reconstruction	25
Development of patient‐specific pre‐treatment verification procedure for FLASH proton therapy based on time resolved film dosimetry	25

Multi‐collimator proton minibeam radiotherapy with joint dose and PVDR optimization	25
Changes in the relaxivity of water‐organic solvent miscible systems: Hidden forces beyond metal ions	25
Quantification of spinal bone marrow fat fraction using three‐material decomposition technique on dual‐energy CT: A phantom study	25
Optical Automatic Contour Tracing (O‐ACT) – A novel optical image‐guided contour tracing method for electron beam shaping	25
Chan–Vese aided fuzzy C‐means approach for whole breast and fibroglandular tissue segmentation: Preliminary application to real‐world breast MRI	24
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fastCAT: Fast cone beam CT (CBCT) simulation	24
Using CT images to assist the segmentation of MR images via generalization: Segmentation of the renal parenchyma of renal carcinoma patients	24
Fast and accurate peak skin dose estimation method for interventional fluoroscopy patients	24
Development of a storage phosphor imaging system for proton pencil beam spot profile determination	24
Intrinsic radiomic expression patterns after 20 Gy demonstrate early metabolic response of oropharyngeal cancers	24
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Comparative image quality and dosimetric performance of two generations of dedicated breast CT systems	24
Diamond detectors for dose and instantaneous dose‐rate measurements for ultra‐high dose‐rate scanned helium ion beams	24
Technical note: Determination of proton linear energy transfer from the integral depth dose	23
Vibration‐controlled transient elastography for noninvasive evaluation of liver steatosis	23
Sparsier2Sparse: Self‐supervised convolutional neural network‐based streak artifacts reduction in sparse‐view CT images	23
Neural network dose prediction for cervical brachytherapy: Overcoming data scarcity for applicator‐specific models	23
HMA‐Net: A deep U‐shaped network combined with HarDNet and multi‐attention mechanism for medical image segmentation	23
Accelerated cardiac T1 mapping with recurrent networks and cyclic, model‐based loss	23
A prediction model for dosimetric‐based lung adaptive radiotherapy	23
Protocol optimization for functional cardiac CT imaging using noise emulation in the raw data domain	23
Impact of cone‐beam computed tomography artifacts on dose calculation accuracy for lung cancer	23
Kinetic parameter estimation of hepatocellular carcinoma on ¹⁸F‐FDG PET/CT based on Bayesian method	23
Technical Note: Volumetric coverage in breast tomosynthesis images — Phantom QC results from the TMIST study	23
A finite element method for modeling diffusion of alpha‐emitting particles in tissue	23
Efficient proton arc optimization and delivery through energy layer pre‐selection and post‐filtering	23
Reconstruction of multi‐phase parametric maps in 4D‐magnetic resonance fingerprinting (4D‐MRF) by optimization of local T1 and T2 sensitivities	23
Respiratory motion management using a single rapid MRI scan for a 0.35 T MRI‐Linac system	22
Secondary neutron dosimetry for conformal FLASH proton therapy	22
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A machine learning‐based approach to predict energy layer for each field in spot‐scanning proton arc therapy for lung cancer: A feasibility study	22
Enhancing adaptive proton therapy through CBCT images: Synthetic head and neck CT generation based on 3D vision transformers	22
Machine learning‐generated decision boundaries for prediction and exploration of patient‐specific quality assurance failures in stereotactic radiosurgery plans	21
AAPM Task Group Report 311: Guidance for performance evaluation of fluorescence‐guided surgery systems	21
MRI‐based radiomics nomogram for the preoperative prediction of deep myometrial invasion of FIGO stage I endometrial carcinoma	21
Deep learning proton beam range estimation model for quality assurance based on two‐dimensional scintillated light distributions in simulations	21
Real‐time respiratory motion compensated roadmaps for hepatic arterial interventions	21
FLASH proton irradiation setup with a modulator wheel for a single mouse eye	21
A workflow for predicting radiofrequency‐induced heating around bilateral deep brain stimulation electrodes in MRI	21
Technical note: Monte Carlo study of the mechanism of proton–boron fusion therapy	21
Ultrasound‐gated computed tomography coronary angiography: Development of ultrasound transducers with improved computed tomography compatibility	21
Regional left ventricular endocardial strains estimated from low‐dose 4DCT: Comparison with cardiac magnetic resonance feature tracking	21
VerteFormer: A single‐staged Transformer network for vertebrae segmentation from CT images with arbitrary field of views	21
Segmentation of carotid artery vessel wall and diagnosis of carotid atherosclerosis on black blood magnetic resonance imaging with multi‐task learning	21
Deep learning based brain MRI registration driven by local‐signed‐distance fields of segmentation maps	21
Automatic segmentation of magnetic resonance images for high‐dose‐rate cervical cancer brachytherapy using deep learning	21
Risks of feature leakage and sample size dependencies in deep feature extraction for breast mass classification	21
Physical and imaging performance of SIAT aPET under different energy windows and timing windows	20
In Regards to Barufaldi et al. Med Phys 49(4), 2220–2232	20
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An endoluminal cylindrical sectored‐ring ultrasound phased‐array applicator for minimally‐invasive therapeutic ultrasound	20
Real‐time image‐guided treatment of mobile tumors in proton therapy by a library of treatment plans: a simulation study	20
System‐specific evaluation of the dual flip angle MRI technique for quantitative T₁ measurement	20
Effect of angular dependence for small‐field dosimetry using seven different detectors	20
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The effect of magnetic field strength on the positron range and projected annihilation artifact in integrated PET/MR systems: A GATE Monte Carlo study	20
Correcting statistical CT number biases without access to raw detector counts: Applications to high spatial resolution photon counting CT imaging	19
Development of the quantitative PET prostate phantom (Q3P) for improved quality assurance of ¹⁸F‐PSMA PET imaging in metastatic prostate cancer	19
Modeling secondary cancer risk ratios for proton versus carbon ion beam therapy: A comparative study based on the local effect model	19
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The PTW microSilicon diode: Performance in small 6 and 15 MV photon fields and utility of density compensation	19
Technical note: Absolute dose measurements of a vault‐free radiosurgery system	19
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Multimodal radiotherapy dose prediction using a multi‐task deep learning model	19
Marker‐based C‐arm self‐calibration with unknown calibration pattern	19
An analytical form of ring artifact correction for computed tomography based on directional gradient domain optimization	19
Dose coefficients for organ dosimetry in tomosynthesis imaging of adults and pediatrics across diverse protocols	19
A novel method for rapid estimation of active bone marrow dose for radiotherapy patients in epidemiological studies	19
A comprehensive quality assurance protocol for electromagnetic tracking in brachytherapy	18
Decoupling convolution network for characterizing the metastatic lymph nodes of breast cancer patients	18
Assessment of pleural invasion and adhesion of lung tumors with dynamic chest radiography: A virtual clinical imaging study	18
Technical note: rtdsm—An open‐source software for radiotherapy dose‐surface map generation and analysis	18
Quantitative analysis of dose‐averaged linear energy transfer (LET_d) robustness in pencil beam scanning proton lung plans	18
The impact of MR‐based attenuation correction in spinal cord FDG‐PET/MR imaging for neurological studies	18
Creating uniform cluster dose spread‐out Bragg peaks for proton and carbon beams	18
Classification of tolerable/intolerable mucosal toxicity of head‐and‐neck radiotherapy schedules with a biomathematical model of cell dynamics	18
Impact of iterative reconstruction algorithms on the applicability of Fourier‐based detectability index for x‐ray CT imaging	18
Vessel segmentation from volumetric images: a multi‐scale double‐pathway network with class‐balanced loss at the voxel level	18
Motion‐based microwave tomographic measurement device for three‐dimensional coverage in a magnetic resonance system	18

Optimizing dual‐energy CT technique for iodine‐based contrast‐to‐noise ratio, a theoretical study	18
Development of a multi‐layer quality assurance program to evaluate the uncertainty of deformable dose accumulation in adaptive radiotherapy	18
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Universal implementation of automated treatment planning software will be detrimental to future generations of trainees	18
Determining the reliable feature change in longitudinal radiomics studies: A methodological approach using the reliable change index	18
A semi‐supervised learning method of latent features based on convolutional neural networks for CT metal artifact reduction	18
Effect of skull porosity on ultrasound transmission and wave mode conversion at large incidence angles	18
Accurate and efficient measurement of channelized Hotelling observer‐based low‐contrast detectability on the ACR CT accreditation phantom	17
Conformance of a 3T radiotherapy MRI scanner to the QIBA Diffusion Profile	17
A roadmap to clinical trials for FLASH	17
MsgeCNN: Multiscale geometric embedded convolutional neural network for ONFH segmentation and grading	17
Iterative image reconstruction with polar coordinate discretized system matrix for optical CT radiochromic gel dosimetry	17
Past AAPM President: 2003	17
Thin slice photon‐counting CT coronary angiography compared to conventional CT: Objective image quality and clinical radiation dose assessment	17
Complementation‐reinforced network for integrated reconstruction and segmentation of pulmonary gas MRI with high acceleration	17
IAEA‐AAPM TRS‐483‐based reference dosimetry of the new RefleXion biology‐guided radiotherapy (BgRT) machine	17
A method for Kashin‐Beck disease auxiliary diagnosis based on the features in regions of the potential lesion	17
CIABNet: Category imbalance attention block network for the classification of multi‐differentiated types of esophageal cancer	17
Early CT physics research at Massachusetts General Hospital	17
Rapid estimation of patient‐specific organ doses using a deep learning network	17
Automated contour propagation of the prostate from pCT to CBCT images via deep unsupervised learning	17
A novel calorimeter for synchrotron produced monochromatic x‐ray beams	17
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Topology observing 3D device reconstruction from continuous‐sweep limited angle fluoroscopy	16
Monte Carlo based continuous aperture optimization for VMAT on conventional and MR‐linacs: A proof of concept	16
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Self‐reported COVID‐19 infection, and illness severity associated with a large professional‐society meeting of the AAPM in 2022	16
Past AAPM President: 2017	16
Past AAPM President: 2006	16
Fully automated cardiac MRI segmentation using dilated residual network	16
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Ion chamber and film‐based quality assurance of mixed electron‐photon radiation therapy	16
Technical note: High‐efficient and wireless transcranial ultrasound excitation based on electromagnetic acoustic transducer	16
Past AAPM President: 2000	16
The beginning of linac radiosurgery at the JCRT	16
Real‐time liver motion estimation via deep learning‐based angle‐agnostic X‐ray imaging	16
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	16
Transrectal ultrasound vector projectile imaging for time‐resolved visualization of flow dynamics in the male urethra: A clinical pilot study	16
Single‐shot T₂ mapping via multi‐echo‐train multiple overlapping‐echo detachment planar imaging and multitask deep learning	16
A feasibility study of three‐dimensional ultrasound imaging of the vagina under distension	16
Past AAPM President: 2014	16
Understanding Radiation Biology. From DNA Damage to Cancer and Radiation Risk. KennethChadwick. CRC Press/Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, 2019. Hardcover: 252pp. Price: $224.00.	16
Chest tomosynthesis deblurring using CNN with deconvolution layer for vertebrae segmentation	16
Unbiased evaluation of predicted gamma passing rate by an event‐mixing technique	15
AAPM Task Group Report 261: Comprehensive quality control methodology and management of dental and maxillofacial cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) systems	15
Three‐dimensional self super‐resolution for pelvic floor MRI using a convolutional neural network with multi‐orientation data training	15
Development of scalable lymphatic system in the 4D XCAT phantom: Application to quantitative evaluation of lymphoma PET segmentations	15
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Energy‐dependence investigation for a range of clinically used detectors from 70 kV to 6 MV	15
Model‐based pulse pileup and charge sharing compensation for photon counting detectors: A simulation study	15
A double‐strand‐break model for the relative biological effectiveness of electrons based on ionization clustering	15
Direct energy binning for photon counting detectors: Simulation study	15
Size‐adaptive mediastinal multilesion detection in chest CT images via deep learning and a benchmark dataset	15
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Cross‐engine transformation‐based fast dose calculation for MRI‐Linac online treatment planning	15
Channelized hotelling observer‐based low‐contrast detectability on the ACR CT accreditation phantom: Part II. Repeatability study	15
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Fusion of CT images and clinical variables based on deep learning for predicting invasiveness risk of stage I lung adenocarcinoma	15
Biomechanical characteristics in the carotid artery: Noninvasive assessment using subharmonic emissions from microbubbles	15
Bladder surface dose modeling in prostate cancer radiotherapy: An analysis of motion‐induced variations and the cumulative dose across the treatment	15
Incorporating uncertainty bounds in daily deformable dose accumulation for adaptive radiation therapy of head‐and‐neck cancer	15
Assisted annotation in Deep LOGISMOS: Simultaneous multi‐compartment 3D MRI segmentation of calf muscles	15
Volumetric dose extension for isodose tuning	15
Unraveling the interplay of image formation, data representation and learning in CT‐based COPD phenotyping automation: The need for a meta‐strategy	15
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Dose kernel decomposition for spot‐based radiotherapy treatment planning	15
A Scholte wave approach for ultrasonic surface acoustic wave elastography	15
Technical note: MAMBA—Multi‐pAradigM voxel‐Based Analysis: A computational cookbot	15
The self‐distillation trained multitask dense‐attention network for diagnosing lung cancers based on CT scans	14
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Skull phantom‐based methodology to validate MRI co‐registration accuracy for Gamma Knife radiosurgery	14
Technical note: Analysis of brachytherapy source movement by high‐speed camera	14
Hepatic and portal vein segmentation with dual‐stream deep neural network	14
A new sonoablation using acoustic droplet vaporization and focused ultrasound: A feasibility study	14
Predicting the net administered activity in ⁹⁰Y‐radioembolization patients from post‐procedure ⁹⁰Y‐SPECT/CT	14
Improvement of phoswich detector‐based β+/γ‐ray discrimination algorithm with deep learning	14
A scattering‐foil free electron beam to increase dose rate for total skin electron therapy (TSET)	14
Exploration of the pulse pileup effects in a clinical CdTe‐based photon‐counting computed tomography	14
Technical note: Sources of systemic error in total body irradiation and total skin electron therapy in vivo measurements using nanoDot optically stimulated luminescence dosimeters within high‐efficien	14
Technical note: Comparison of arithmetic mean and energy‐weighted mean flood histogram generation methods for dual‐ended readout positron emission tomography detectors	14
Lung CT harmonization of paired reconstruction kernel images using generative adversarial networks	14
Feasibility of 4D HDR brachytherapy source tracking using x‐ray tomosynthesis: Monte Carlo investigation	14
Small field output correction factors at 18 MV	14
Swin MoCo: Improving parotid gland MRI segmentation using contrastive learning	14
AAPM Task Group Report 238: 3D C‐arms with volumetric imaging capability*	14
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Influence of cerebrospinal fluid on power absorption during transcranial magnetic resonance‐guided focused ultrasound treatment	14
Label‐free coronavirus disease 2019 lesion segmentation based on synthetic healthy lung image subtraction	14
Squeeze‐and‐excitation‐attention‐based mobile vision transformer for grading recognition of bladder prolapse in pelvic MRI images	14
An experimental framework for assessing the detective quantum efficiency of spectroscopic x‐ray detectors	14
Technical note: Errors introduced when using Dose Voxel Kernels for estimating absorbed dose from radiopharmaceutical therapies involving alpha emitters	14
MR‐guided ion therapy: Detector response in magnetic fields during carbon ion irradiation	14
Technical Note: Swing golden angle – A navigator‐interleaved golden angle trajectory with eddy current suppression – Application in free‐running cardiac MRI	14