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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Technical note: Analysis of brachytherapy source movement by high‐speed camera	146
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	131
Past AAPM President: 2003	125
Past AAPM President: 2006	95
Technical note: High‐efficient and wireless transcranial ultrasound excitation based on electromagnetic acoustic transducer	87
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Automatic segmentation of hyperreflective dots via focal priors and visual saliency	75
Technical note: Providing proton fields down to the few‐MeV level at clinical pencil beam scanning facilities for radiobiological experiments	75
Vibration‐controlled transient elastography for noninvasive evaluation of liver steatosis	67
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Technical note: Determination of proton linear energy transfer from the integral depth dose	63
Assisted annotation in Deep LOGISMOS: Simultaneous multi‐compartment 3D MRI segmentation of calf muscles	62
Technical note: Assessment of radiation measurement devices for the detection of [¹⁷⁷Lu]Lu‐labeled radiopharmaceuticals containing [^177mLu]Lu‐impurities	62
Influence of flow and susceptibility effects on spin dephasing in lung tissue	62
AAPM Task Group Report 238: 3D C‐arms with volumetric imaging capability*	58
Stability analysis of patient‐specific 4DCT‐ and 4DCBCT‐based correspondence models	58
Hepatic and portal vein segmentation with dual‐stream deep neural network	57
MR‐guided ion therapy: Detector response in magnetic fields during carbon ion irradiation	54
A theoretical study of H₂O₂ as the surrogate of dose in minibeam radiotherapy, with a diffusion model considering radical removal process	52
Evaluating the impact of different positron emitters on the performance of a clinical PET/MR system	50
A deep supervised transformer U‐shaped full‐resolution residual network for the segmentation of breast ultrasound image	49
Evaluation of a conventionally shielded proton treatment room for FLASH radiotherapy	49
Segmentation of pancreatic tumors based on multi‐scale convolution and channel attention mechanism in the encoder‐decoder scheme	48
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Dose coefficients for organ dosimetry in tomosynthesis imaging of adults and pediatrics across diverse protocols	45
Eigenbin compression for reducing photon‐counting CT data size	44
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Development of patient‐specific pre‐treatment verification procedure for FLASH proton therapy based on time resolved film dosimetry	43
Squeeze‐and‐excitation‐attention‐based mobile vision transformer for grading recognition of bladder prolapse in pelvic MRI images	42
Fusion of CT images and clinical variables based on deep learning for predicting invasiveness risk of stage I lung adenocarcinoma	41
Impact of cone‐beam computed tomography artifacts on dose calculation accuracy for lung cancer	40
Accurate total‐body K_i parametric imaging with shortened dynamic ¹⁸F‐FDG PET scan durations via effective data processing	40
Innovative integration of augmented reality and optical surface imaging: A coarse‐to‐precise system for radiotherapy positioning	40
A simple algorithm to derive virtual non‐contrast electron density from dual‐energy computed tomography data for radiotherapy treatment planning	40
High spatiotemporal‐resolution abdominal 4D‐MRI through respiratory‐synchronized frame collaborative reconstruction	39
Radiomics‐based kidney lesion classification: Mitigating batch effect with nested combat harmonization	39
Quantitative ultrasound moment‐based double Nakagami distribution method	38
AAPM TG report 330: EPID‐based quality assurance of linear accelerators	38
Report on the AAPM deep‐learning sparse‐view CT grand challenge	36
Transcranial ultrasound simulations: A review	36
Determining the reliable feature change in longitudinal radiomics studies: A methodological approach using the reliable change index	36
Feasibility of tumor detection with a transmission‐based microwave imaging system	36
Simulation studies of a full‐ring, CZT SPECT system for whole‐body imaging of ^99mTc and ¹⁷⁷Lu	36
Static proton arc therapy: Comprehensive plan quality evaluation and first clinical treatments in patients with complex head and neck targets	36
Lung CT harmonization of paired reconstruction kernel images using generative adversarial networks	35
Protocol optimization for functional cardiac CT imaging using noise emulation in the raw data domain	35
Whole‐body tumor segmentation from PET/CT images using a two‐stage cascaded neural network with camouflaged object detection mechanisms	35
Channelized hotelling observer‐based low‐contrast detectability on the ACR CT accreditation phantom: Part II. Repeatability study	35
A repository of grade 1 and 2 meningioma MRIs in a public dataset for radiomics reproducibility tests	34
Multi‐scale statistical deformation based co‐registration of prostate MRI and post‐surgical whole mount histopathology	34
A robust optimization model for intensity‐modulated radiotherapy: Cheap‐Minimax	34
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Multi‐scale nested graph transformer with graph operations: Advancing high‐resolution chest x‐ray classification	33
Evaluation of split renal dysfunction using radiomics based on magnetic resonance diffusion‐weighted imaging	33
Super‐resolved q‐space learning of diffusion MRI	33
MRI‐based radiomics nomogram for the preoperative prediction of deep myometrial invasion of FIGO stage I endometrial carcinoma	33
AAPM Task Group Report 272: Comprehensive acceptance testing and evaluation of fluoroscopy imaging systems	33
A multi‐scale, multi‐region and attention mechanism‐based deep learning framework for prediction of grading in hepatocellular carcinoma	32
Optimization of proton pencil beam positioning in collimated fields	31
Effect of angular dependence for small‐field dosimetry using seven different detectors	31
A personal perspective on the development and future of cone‐beam CT for image‐guided radiotherapy	31
Modeling secondary cancer risk ratios for proton versus carbon ion beam therapy: A comparative study based on the local effect model	31
Ultra‐low dose hip CT‐based automated measurement of volumetric bone mineral density at proximal femoral subregions	31
Pathology steered stratification network for subtype identification in Alzheimer's disease	31
Technical assessment of 2D and 3D imaging performance of an IGZO‐based flat‐panel X‐ray detector	31
Streak artefact removal in x‐ray dark‐field computed tomography using a convolutional neural network	30
Pulsed beam monitoring for electron FLASH	29
Single‐shot T₂ mapping via multi‐echo‐train multiple overlapping‐echo detachment planar imaging and multitask deep learning	29
A new visual State Space Model for low‐dose CT denoising	28
Efficient proton arc optimization and delivery through energy layer pre‐selection and post‐filtering	28
Real‐time liver motion estimation via deep learning‐based angle‐agnostic X‐ray imaging	28
EBC‐Net: 3D semi‐supervised segmentation of pancreas based on edge‐biased consistency regularization in dual perturbation space	28
A novel image segmentation network with multi‐scale and flow‐guided attention for early screening of vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia (VAIN)	28
Lesion‐guided selective multi‐modal integration for prostate cancer segmentation and PI‐RADS grading in MP‐MRI	28

Predicting radiation‐induced immune suppression in lung cancer patients treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy	28
Deep learning‐based estimation of respiration‐induced deformation from surface motion: A proof‐of‐concept study on 4D thoracic image synthesis	27
Lung cancer dose distribution prediction based on a dual‐branch feature extraction network	27
Applying deep generative model in plan review of intensity modulated radiotherapy	27
Simultaneous temperature and viscosity estimation capability via magnetic nanoparticle relaxation	27
The Cut‐Sort‐Group algorithm for efficient delivery of collimated step‐and‐shoot proton arc therapy	27
Transfer learning for DL‐based Synthetic CT after reconstruction algorithm upgrade in a proton therapy clinic	27
An attention mechanism‐based lightweight UNet for musculoskeletal ultrasound image segmentation	26
Feasibility of operating a millimeter‐scale graphite calorimeter for absolute dosimetry of small‐field photon beams in the clinic	26
Deep learning‐based AI model for signet‐ring cell carcinoma diagnosis and chemotherapy response prediction in gastric cancer	26
Validity of equivalent square field concept in small field dosimetry	26
Predictive stroke risk model with vision transformer‐based Doppler features	26
Optimized acoustic streaming generated at oblique incident angles to improve ultrasound thrombolysis effect	26
A nonconvex model‐based combined geometric calibration scheme for micro cone‐beam CT with irregular trajectories	26
Technical note: Air bubble‐induced performance degradation in automatic rectum segmentation from cone‐beam CT	25
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Simultaneous dose and dose rate optimization (SDDRO) of the FLASH effect for pencil‐beam‐scanning proton therapy	25
Scanned particle‐beam tracking with beam correction based on predictive volumetric imaging: A simulation study	25
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Photon counting x‐ray detectors as scatter probes	25
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Technical note: Determining the applicability of a clinical knowledge‐based learning model via prospective outlier detection	25
Time‐resolved dose rate measurements in pencil beam scanning proton FLASH therapy with a fiber‐coupled scintillator detector system	25
Preoperative prediction of lymph node metastasis in colorectal cancer using ¹⁸F‐FDG PET/CT peritumoral radiomics analysis	24
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Liver fibrosis automatic diagnosis utilizing dense‐fusion attention contrastive learning network	24
Aberration correction by polynomial approximation for synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging	24
Extracting transition features among brain states based on coarse‐grained similarity measurement for autism spectrum disorder analysis	24
Detection and quantification of small and low‐uptake lesions for differentiated thyroid carcinoma using non‐time‐of‐flight iodine‐124 PET/MRI	24
Physical dose validation of dynamic treatment for Gamma Knife radiosurgery	24
Prediction of early recurrence of adult‐type diffuse gliomas following radiotherapy using multi‐modal magnetic resonance images	24
A novel transformer‐based ECG dimensionality reduction stacked auto‐encoders for arrhythmia beat detection	24
Noise reduction profile: A new method for evaluation of noise reduction techniques in CT	24
A semi‐automatic analytical methodology for characterizing the energy consumption of MRI systems using load duration curves	23
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Investigation on the physical dose filtered by linear energy transfer for treatment plan evaluation in carbon ion therapy	23
Comparing organ and effective dose of various CT localizer acquisition strategies: A Monte Carlo study	23
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Technical note: Optimal allocation of limited proton therapy resources using model‐based patient selection	23
Improved brain metastases segmentation using generative adversarial network and conditional random field optimization mask R‐CNN	23
Semi‐supervised liver segmentation based on local regions self‐supervision	23
Prediction of electron‐solid interaction parameters using machine learning	23
Low‐dose CT reconstruction with Noise2Noise network and testing‐time fine‐tuning	23
Automated determination of the ion‐recombination correction factor (k_sat) in ultra‐high dose rate electron radiation therapy	23
Image‐domain material decomposition for dual‐energy CT using unsupervised learning with data‐fidelity loss	22
Past AAPM President: 2020	22
Past AAPM President: 2002	22
Efficient fetal ultrasound image segmentation for automatic head circumference measurement using a lightweight deep convolutional neural network	22
Annihilation‐Net: Learned annihilation relation for dynamic MR imaging	22
Improving the Scientific Impact of Medical Physics: Challenges and Opportunities: Editor‐in‐Chief 2014–2020	22
Transformer‐based deep learning for predicting brain tumor recurrence using magnetic resonance imaging	22
Patient‐derived heterogeneous breast phantoms for advanced dosimetry in mammography and tomosynthesis	22
Past AAPM President: 2010	22
Towards subpercentage uncertainty proton stopping‐power mapping via dual‐energy CT: Direct experimental validation and uncertainty analysis of a statistical iterative image reconstruction method	22
Development of an abdominal phantom for the validation of an oligometastatic disease diagnosis workflow	21
Deep learning‐based low‐dose CT simulator for non‐linear reconstruction methods	21
Multi‐eXpert fusion: An ensemble learning framework to segment 3D TRUS prostate images	21
An endovaginal MRI array with a forward‐looking coil for advanced gynecological cancer brachytherapy procedures: Design and initial results	21
Direct estimation of regional lung volume change from paired and single CT images using residual regression neural network	21
Stopping‐power ratio estimation for proton radiotherapy using dual‐energy computed tomography and prior‐image constrained denoising	21
Using 3D deep features from CT scans for cancer prognosis based on a video classification model: A multi‐dataset feasibility study	21
Transducer module apodization to reduce bone heating during focused ultrasound uterine fibroid ablation with phased arrays: A numerical study	21
On the field size definition and field output factors in small field dosimetry	21
Open‐source hardware and software for the measurement, characterization, reporting, and correction of geometric distortion in MRI	21
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MRI‐based quantification of carbon and oxygen concentrations in human soft tissues for range verification in proton therapy	20
A novel cross‐modal data augmentation method based on contrastive unpaired translation network for kidney segmentation in ultrasound imaging	20
A clustering‐based approach to address correlated features in predicting genitourinary toxicity from MRI‐guided prostate SBRT	20
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A feasibility study on deep‐neural‐network‐based dose‐neutral dual‐energy digital breast tomosynthesis	20
Design and optimization of thin‐film tungsten (W)‐diamond target for multi‐pixel X‐ray sources	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
Voxel‐wise supervised analysis of tumors with multimodal engineered features to highlight interpretable biological patterns	20
An MR‐only deep learning inference model‐based dose estimation algorithm for MR‐guided adaptive radiation therapy	20
Ultra‐high dose rate FLASH radiation therapy for cancer	20
Generation of synthetic megavoltage CT for MRI‐only radiotherapy treatment planning using a 3D deep convolutional neural network	20
Monte Carlo simulation‐based patient‐specific QA using machine log files for line‐scanning proton radiation therapy	20
More than pretty pictures: 3‐D treatment planning and conformal therapy	20
Semi‐supervised medical image segmentation via cross‐guidance and feature‐level consistency dual regularization schemes	20
A virtual imaging study of microcalcification detection performance in digital breast tomosynthesis: Patients versus 3D textured phantoms	20

Clinical commissioning of the first point‐of‐care spectral photon‐counting CT for the upper extremities	20
U‐shaped network combining dual‐stream fusion mamba and redesigned multilayer perceptron for myocardial pathology segmentation	20
Assessment of dual time point protocols to produce parametric K_i images in FDG PET/CT: A virtual clinical study	20
Estimating the differences between inter‐operator contrast enhancement in cerebral CT angiography	20
Intraradiological pathology‐calibrated electrical impedance spectroscopy in the evaluation of excision‐required breast lesions	20
Fast and accurate dose predictions for novel radiotherapy treatments in heterogeneous phantoms using conditional 3D‐UNet generative adversarial networks	20
Evaluation of deformable image registration accuracy for liver re‐irradiation patients using contrast and non‐contrast computed tomography images	19
Commissioning of respiratory‐gated 4D dynamic dose calculations for various gating widths without spot timestamp in proton pencil beam scanning	19
Volumetric segmentation of ground glass nodule based on 3D attentional cascaded residual U‐Net and conditional random field	19
Preserving noise texture through training data curation for deep learning denoising of high‐resolution cardiac EID‐CT	19
Characterizing diamond detectors for various dose and dose rate measurements in scanned carbon and oxygen beams	19
A fidelity‐embedded learning for metal artifact reduction in dental CBCT	19
Deep learning‐based hippocampus asymmetry assessment for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis	19
Automatic x‐ray to CT registration using embedding reconstruction and lite cross‐attention	19
Deep‐Interior: A new pathway to interior tomographic image reconstruction via a weighted backprojection and deep learning	19
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Experimental investigation of dynamic real‐time rotation‐including dose reconstruction during prostate tracking radiotherapy	18
Enhancing prostate cancer segmentation on multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging with background information and gland masks	18
Technical note: Proton beam dosimetry at ultra‐high dose rates (FLASH): Evaluation of GAFchromic™ (EBT3, EBT‐XD) and OrthoChromic (OC‐1) film performances	18
Training of a deep learning based digital subtraction angiography method using synthetic data	18
Quality assurance assessment of intra‐acquisition diffusion‐weighted and T2‐weighted magnetic resonance imaging registration and contour propagation for head and neck cancer radiotherapy	18
Monitor unit prediction model for wobbling proton therapy with ridge filters	18
Evaluating the robustness of deep learning models trained to diagnose idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis using a retrospective study	18
Quantifying dose perturbations in high‐risk prostate radiotherapy due to translational and rotational motion of prostate and pelvic lymph nodes	18
Warp‐based edge feature reinforcement network for medical image segmentation	18
Modeling RBE with other quantities than LET significantly improves prediction of in vitro cell survival for proton therapy	18
Electron ultra‐high dose rate FLASH irradiation study using a clinical linac: Linac modification, dosimetry, and radiobiological outcome	18
A motion analysis of cardiac substructures for guiding stereotactic arrhythmia radiotherapy motion management	18
Development of an automated treatment planning approach for lattice radiation therapy	18
A high‐Z inorganic scintillator–based detector for time‐resolved in vivo dosimetry during brachytherapy	18
Design of static and dynamic ridge filters for FLASH–IMPT: A simulation study	18
Minimum phantom size for megavoltage photon beam reference dosimetry	18
Investigation of four‐dimensional (4D) Monte Carlo dose calculation in real‐time tumor tracking stereotatic body radiotherapy for lung cancers	18
Improved precision of SPECT myocardial blood flow using a net tracer retention model	18
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Audit of data from examination image headers collected for quality assurance in the ECOG‐ACRIN EA1151 tomosynthesis mammographic imaging screening trial (TMIST)	18
A novel tool for predicting the dose distribution of non‐sealed ¹⁸⁸Re (Rhenium) resin in non‐melanoma skin cancers (NMSC) patients	18
Synthetic CT generation based on CBCT using respath‐cycleGAN	18
An in silico study on the detectability of field cancerization through parenchymal analysis of digital mammograms	18
Development and verification of radiomics framework for computed tomography image segmentation	18
Predicting early stage lung cancer recurrence and survival from combined tumor motion amplitude and radiomics on free‐breathing 4D‐CT	17
Small‐field output factor dependence on the field size definition in MR‐Linac	17
Model‐based perfusion reconstruction with time separation technique in cone‐beam CT dynamic liver perfusion imaging	17
A persistent belief in radiopharmaceutical therapy	17
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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	17
Optical surface information‐based respiratory phase‐sorting and motion‐incorporated reconstruction for SPECT imaging	17
Framework to calculate ²²⁵Ac, ¹⁷⁷Lu, and ¹⁶¹Tb radiation dose and biological effect in metastatic castration‐resistant prostate cancer treatment	17
AAPM should sunset TG‐51 and adopt IAEA TRS‐398	17
Semi‐automated topic identification for radiation oncology safety event reports using natural language processing and statistical modeling	17
Joint radial trajectory correction for accelerated T₂^* mapping on an MR‐Linac	17
Most DNA repair defects do not modify the relationship between relative biological effectiveness and linear energy transfer in CRISPR‐edited cells	17
A feasibility study of the therapeutic application of a mixture of ^67/64Cu radioisotopes produced by cyclotrons with proton irradiation	17
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An enhanced visual state space model for myocardial pathology segmentation in multi‐sequence cardiac MRI	17
Boundary information‐guided adversarial diffusion model for efficient unsupervised synthetic CT generation	17
Timing‐synchronized passive ultrasound imaging of cavitation using eigenspace‐based minimum variance beamforming and principal component analysis	17
Self‐calibrated epipolar reconstruction for assessment of aneurysms in the internal carotid artery using in‐silico biplane angiograms	17
Pulmonary arteries segmentation from CT images using PA‐Net with attention module and contour loss	17
Absorbed dose differences between twin fetuses for pregnancy patients in CT examinations	17
Novel magnetic embolic MRI imageable particles with anticancer drug release for transcatheter arterial embolization and magnetic ablation	17
Nested block self‐attention multiple resolution residual network for multiorgan segmentation from CT	17
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An optimized framework for cone‐beam computed tomography‐based online evaluation for proton therapy	17
Decentralized learning for medical image classification with prototypical contrastive network	17
Multi‐task generative model for high‐quality magnetic particle imaging reconstruction	17
AAPM Truth‐based CT (TrueCT) reconstruction grand challenge	16
Seventieth Annual Scientific Meeting of Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists, Delta Hotels, Regina, Saskatchewan, June 5–8, 2024	16
Framelet tensor sparsity with block matching for spectral CT reconstruction	16
MR imaging of proton beam‐induced oxygen depletion	16
Radiation field and dose inhomogeneities using an X‐ray cabinet in radiation biology research	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
A noise robust image reconstruction using slice aware cycle interpolator network for parallel imaging in MRI	16
Cema‐based formalism for the determination of absorbed dose for high‐energy photon beams	16
Technical Note: Histological validation of anatomical imaging for breast modeling using a novel cryo‐microtome	16
Accelerated dynamic MR imaging with joint balanced low‐rank tensor and sparsity constraints	16
A multi‐stage fusion framework to classify breast lesions using deep learning and radiomics features computed from four‐view mammograms	16
Nanoscale gold nanoparticle (GNP)‐laden tumor cell model and its use for estimation of intracellular dose from GNP‐induced secondary electrons	16
Framework for dual‐energy‐like chest radiography image synthesis from single‐energy computed tomography based on cycle‐consistent generative adversarial network	16
Technical note: Cartilage imaging with sub‐cellular resolution using a laboratory‐based phase‐contrast x‐ray microscope	16
Machine‐assisted interpolation algorithm for semi‐automated segmentation of highly deformable organs	16
Accelerated respiratory‐resolved 4D‐MRI with separable spatio‐temporal neural networks	16
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Technique selection and technical developments for 2D dual‐energy subtraction angiography on an interventional C‐arm	16
X‐ray bi‐prism interferometry—A design study of proposed novel hardware	16
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Automatic right ventricular segmentation for cine cardiac magnetic resonance images based on a new deep atlas network	16
A probabilistic thermal dose model for the estimation of necrosis in MR‐guided tumor ablations	16
FLASH irradiation‐induced acute lung injury promotes metastatic colonization via neutrophil extracellular trap formation	15
Evaluation of inverse treatment planning for gamma knife radiosurgery using fMRI brain activation maps as organs at risk	15
Challenges in modeling the Agility multileaf collimator in treatment planning systems and current needs for improvement	15
A multi‐modal diffusion model for noise reduction of particle number limited Monte Carlo dose calculation for carbon ion radiotherapy	15
Can bronchoscopically implanted anchored electromagnetic transponders be used to monitor tumor position and lung inflation during deep inspiration breath‐hold lung radiotherapy?	15
Comprehensive evaluation of dosimetric impact against position errors in accelerator‐based BNCT under different treatment parameter settings	15