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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Equivalent-time-active-cavitation-imaging enables vascular-resolution blood-brain-barrier-opening-therapy planning	127
Inverse planning of lung radiotherapy with photon and proton beams using a discrete ordinates Boltzmann solver	96
Highly robust reconstruction framework for three-dimensional optical imaging based on physical model constrained neural networks	90
Dosimetric evaluation of different planning strategies for hypofractionated whole-breast irradiation technique	90
Multi³: multi-templates siamese network with multi-peaks detection and multi-features refinement for target tracking in ultrasound image sequences	73
Machine learning approach for proton range verification using real-time prompt gamma imaging with Compton cameras: addressing the total deposited energy information gap	71
Deep-learning and radiomics ensemble classifier for false positive reduction in brain metastases segmentation	69
Pixel-by-pixel correction of beam hardening artifacts by bowtie filter in fan-beam CT	62
Erratum: EFNet: evidence fusion network for tumor segmentation from PET-CT volumes (2021 Phys. Med. Biol. 66 205005)	61
Cerenkov free micro-dosimetry in small-field radiation therapy technique	59
Novel frequency selective B₁ focusing passive lenz resonators for substantial MRI signal-to-noise ratio amplification	56
Corrigendum: Theory of sleep/wake cycles affecting brain elastography (2022 Phys. Med. Biol. 67 225013)	55
Corrigendum: DiffuseRT: predicting likely anatomical deformations of patients undergoing radiotherapy (2024 Phys. Med. Biol. 69 155016)	55
Design study of a novel geometrical arrangement for an in-beam small animal positron emission tomography scanner	54
The role of volume averaging effects, beam hardening, and phantom scatter in dosimetry of grid therapy	54
A new projection correction based voting strategy for breast calcification artifact reduction	52
Dosimetry for radiobiological in vivo experiments at laser plasma-based proton accelerators	51
Cancer prediction from few amounts of histology samples through self-attention based multi-routines cross-domains network	50
D-SAT: dual semantic aggregation transformer with dual attention for medical image segmentation	49
A GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo code, RT² for coupled transport of photon, electron/positron, and neutron	46
Deep residual-SVD network for brain image registration	44
Fourier-based beamforming for 3D plane wave imaging and application in vector flow imaging using selective compounding	42
Numerical optimization of longitudinal collimator geometry for novel x-ray field	42
Functional nanotransducer-mediated wireless neural modulation techniques	40
Reverberant shear wave phase gradients for elastography	40

Spread-out Bragg peak measurements using a compact quality assurance range calorimeter at the Clatterbridge cancer centre	39
A deep learning approach for automatic delineation of clinical target volume in stereotactic partial breast irradiation (S-PBI)	36
The first PET glimpse of a proton FLASH beam	35
Experimental evaluation of convolutional neural network-based inter-crystal scattering recovery for high-resolution PET detectors	34
High-sensitivity and spatial resolution benchtop cone beam XFCT imaging system with pixelated photon counting detectors using enhanced multipixel events correction method	34
Quantitative accuracy in total-body imaging using the uEXPLORER PET/CT scanner	34
Cellular irradiations with laser-driven carbon ions at ultra-high dose rates	33
Feasibility of CycleGAN enhanced low dose CBCT imaging for prostate radiotherapy dose calculation	33
Combining quantitative and qualitative analysis for scoring pleural line in lung ultrasound	33
Evaluation of auto-segmentation for brachytherapy of postoperative cervical cancer using deep learning-based workflow	33
Development and characterization of the Hydra: a novel multi-headed, single optical channel scintillation detector	33
Mutually enhanced multi-view information learning for segmentation of lung tumor in CT images	33
A motion model-guided 4D dose reconstruction for pencil beam scanned proton therapy	33
Development and evaluation of a new high-TOF-resolution all-digital brain PET system	33
Commissioning an ultra-high-dose-rate electron linac with end-to-end tests	33
Recent advances in highly accelerated 3D MRI	32
Activity recovery for differently shaped objects in quantitative SPECT	32
An end-to-end neural network for 4D cardiac CT reconstruction using single-beat scans	32
Using radial distribution functions to calculate cellular cross-absorbed dose for β emitters: comparison with reference methods and application for ¹⁸F-FDG cell labeling	31
Range uncertainty reductions in proton therapy and resulting improvements in quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) for head-and-neck cancer patients	31
A vision transformer for emphysema classification using CT images	31
CMUT for ultrafast passive cavitation detection during ultrasound-induced blood–brain barrier disruption: proof of concept study	31
Modeling of cellular response after FLASH irradiation: a quantitative analysis based on the radiolytic oxygen depletion hypothesis	31
Seven general radiography x-ray detectors with pixel sizes ranging from 175 to 76 μm: technical evaluation with the focus on orthopaedic imaging	31
Locoregional recurrence prediction in head and neck cancer based on multi-modality and multi-view feature expansion	30
Investigation of intra-fractionated range guided adaptive proton therapy (RGAPT): II. Range-shift compensated on-line treatment adaptation and verification	30
Revisiting the safety limit in magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia: insights from eddy current induced heating	30
Determining the effect of cardiac blood volume on accuracy of uptake rate constants by simulation	30
BAF-Net: bidirectional attention-aware fluid pyramid feature integrated multimodal fusion network for diagnosis and prognosis	30
Deep learning based MLC aperture and monitor unit prediction as a warm start for breast VMAT optimisation	30
Interactive content-based image retrieval with deep learning for CT abdominal organ recognition	28
Frequency-selective signal enhancement by a passive dual coil resonator for magnetic particle imaging	28
M³ResU-Net: a deep residual network for multi-center colorectal polyp segmentation based on multi-scale learning and attention mechanism	28
Low power implementation of high frequency SiPM readout for Cherenkov and scintillation detectors in TOF-PET	28
Towards simulation-free MR-linac treatment: utilizing male pelvis PSMA-PET/CT and population-based electron density assignments	28
Proposal for local SAR safety margin in pediatric neuro-imaging using 7 T MRI and parallel transmission	28
A probability model for anatomical robust optimisation in head and neck cancer proton therapy	28
Offline and online LSTM networks for respiratory motion prediction in MR-guided radiotherapy	28
Mechanistic modelling of relative biological effectiveness of carbon ion beams and comparison with experiments	28
Automatic stent struts detection in optical coherence tomography based on a multiple attention convolutional model	27
Thermoplastic 3D printing technology using a single filament for producing realistic patient-derived breast models	27
Impact of respiratory motion on proton pencil beam scanning FLASH radiotherapy: an in silico and phantom measurement study	27
Variable RBE in proton radiotherapy: a comparative study with the predictive Mayo Clinic Florida microdosimetric kinetic model and phenomenological models of cell survival	26
Assessing liver fibrosis distribution through liver elasticity estimates obtained using a biomechanical model of respiratory motion with magnetic resonance elastography	26
A dynamic approach for MR T2-weighted pelvic imaging	26
¹⁸F-PSMA-1007 salivary gland dosimetry: comparison between different methods for dose calculation and assessment of inter- and intra-patient variability	26
Predicting time-of-flight with Cerenkov light in BGO: a three-stage network approach with multiple timing kernels prior	25
Magnetic resonance cavitation imaging for the monitoring of ultrasound therapies	25
Improving respiratory signal prediction with a deep neural network and simple changes to the input and output data format	25
Proton bunch monitors for the clinical translation of prompt gamma-ray timing	25

IPEM code of practice for proton therapy dosimetry based on the NPL primary standard proton calorimeter calibration service	24
Improving cone-beam CT quality using a cycle-residual connection with a dilated convolution-consistent generative adversarial network	24
Magneto- and electrophosphene thresholds in the retina: a dosimetry modeling study	24
Micro-CT imaging of multiple K-edge elements using GaAs and CdTe photon counting detectors	24
Real-time 3D synthetic MRI based on kV imaging for motion monitoring of abdominal radiotherapy in a conventional LINAC	24
Magnetocardiography using optically pumped magnetometers array to detect acute myocardial infarction and premature ventricular contractions in dogs	24
Personalized 3D-printed anthropomorphic phantoms for dosimetry in charged particle fields	24
Consistency of muscle fibers directionality in human thigh derived from diffusion-weighted MRI	23
An integrated 3D printed radioluminescent-based phantom for quality assurance on a robotic-arm linac	23
Improving diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound texture features in detecting and quantifying hepatic steatosis using various beamforming sound speeds	23
Interaction of therapeutic ¹²C ions with bone-like targets: physical characterization and dosimetric effect at material interfaces	23
Influence of different factors on registration error in a 1.5 T MR-guided linac	23
Pairwise attention-enhanced adversarial model for automatic bone segmentation in CT images	23
Erratum: The magnetic field dependent displacement effect and its correction in reference and relative dosimetry (2022 Phys. Med. Biol. 67 045004)	22
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 dose esti	22
Magnetic resonance imaging of blood perfusion rate based on Helmholtz decomposition of heat flux	22
Validation of a deep learning-based material estimation model for Monte Carlo dose calculation in proton therapy	22
Adaptive dual-energy algorithm based on pre-calibrated weighting factors for chest radiography	22
A comparison of measured and treatment planning system out-of-field dose for a 1.5 T MR linac	22
Assessing suitability and stability of materials for a head and neck anthropomorphic multimodality (MRI/CT) phantoms for radiotherapy	21
DFUSNN: zero-shot dual-domain fusion unsupervised neural network for parallel MRI reconstruction	21
A single-step regression method based on transformer for retinal layer segmentation	21
Improving breast tumor segmentation via shape-wise prior-guided information on cone-beam breast CT images	21
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)	21
Exploiting network optimization stability for enhanced PET image denoising using deep image prior	21
X-ray CT adaptation based on a 2D–3D deformable image registration framework using simulated in-room proton radiographies	21
Image quality guided iterative reconstruction for low-dose CT based on CT image statistics	21
Utilization of focused ultrasound for opening of the blood-nerve barrier	21
Near-field coded-mask technique and its potential for proton therapy monitoring	20
Clinical dose assessment for scanned carbon-ion radiotherapy using linear energy transfer measurements and Monte Carlo simulations	20
Fast Monte Carlo log-based framework for robust 4D dose evaluation in proton therapy	20
Measurements of the noise power spectrum for digital x-ray imaging devices	20
Design, construction, and dosimetry of 3D printed heterogeneous phantoms for synchrotron brain cancer radiation therapy quality assurance	20
Deformable image registration with deep network priors: a study on longitudinal PET images	20
Predicting the hotspot location and motor threshold prior to transcranial magnetic stimulation using electric field modelling	20
Radio-immune response modelling for spatially fractionated radiotherapy	20
Characterization of breast tissues in density and effective atomic number basis via spectral X-ray computed tomography	20
GEANT4-DNA simulation of temperature-dependent and pH-dependent yields of chemical radiolytic species	20
Deep learning based unpaired image-to-image translation applications for medical physics: a systematic review	20
Sacroiliitis diagnosis based on interpretable features and multi-task learning	20
Dual- and multi-energy CT for particle stopping-power estimation: current state, challenges and potential	20
Improving coronary ultrafast Doppler angiography using fractional moving blood volume and motion-adaptive ensemble length	19
First experimental time-of-flight-based proton radiography using low gain avalanche diodes	19
Evaluating photon-counting computed tomography for quantitative material characteristics and material differentiation in radiotherapy	19
Deformable 3D-2D registration for high-precision guidance and verification of neuroelectrode placement	19
Detection of range shifts in proton beam therapy using the J-PET scanner: a patient simulation study	19
Towards a safe and efficient clinical implementation of machine learning in radiation oncology by exploring model interpretability, explainability and data-model dependency	19
Simulating atherosclerotic plaque mechanics using polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) cryogel artery phantoms, ultrasound imaging and inverse finite element analysis	19
Absorbed-dose-to-water measurement using alanine in ultra-high-pulse-dose-rate electron beams	19
IPEM topical report: results of a 2020 UK survey on the use of online treatment monitoring solutions for IMRT/VMAT	19
Uncertainty quantification in the assessment of human exposure to pulsed or multi-frequency fields	19
Generation of quantification maps and weighted images from synthetic magnetic resonance imaging using deep learning network	19
A tomographic reconstruction algorithm for cross-sectional imaging of IMRT beams from six projections	18
Setup and characterisation according to NEMA NU 4 of the phenoPET scanner, a PET system dedicated for plant sciences	18
Prospectively-validated deep learning model for segmenting swallowing and chewing structures in CT	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
Power laws prevail in medical ultrasound	18
Artificial intelligence based deconvolving on megavoltage photon beam profiles for radiotherapy applications	18
Method for comparison of data driven gating algorithms in emission tomography	18
Effects of frequency on bubble-cloud behavior and ablation efficiency in intrinsic threshold histotripsy	18
A robust framework with knowledge-guided planning and fiducial-based registration for bronchoscopy navigation system	18
A finite volume approach to dosimetric calculations in diffusing alpha-emitters radiation therapy	18
On the robustness of multilateration of ionoacoustic signals for localization of the Bragg peak at pre-clinical proton beam energies in water	18
A probabilistic approach for determining Monte Carlo beam source parameters: I. Modeling of a CyberKnife M6 unit	18
Accelerated partial separable model using dimension-reduced optimization technique for ultra-fast cardiac MRI	18
Fluid compartments influence elastography of the aging mouse brain	18
Image quality evaluation of a new high-performance ring-gantry cone-beam computed tomography imager	18
Measurement and image-based estimation of dielectric properties of biological tissues —past, present, and future—	18
The dose-related plateau effect of surviving fraction in normal tissue during the ultra-high-dose-rate radiotherapy	18
Reflections on beam configuration optimization for intensity-modulated proton therapy	18
The impact of ion chamber components on k _B,Q for reference dosimetry in MRgRT	17
Using oxygen dose histograms to quantify voxelised ultra-high dose rate (FLASH) effects in multiple radiation modalities	17
Simulated dose painting of hypoxic sub-volumes in pancreatic cancer stereotactic body radiotherapy	17
Shear wave elastography biases in abdominal wall layers characterization	17
3D pyramidal densely connected network with cross-frame uncertainty guidance for intravascular ultrasound sequence segmentation	17
High-temporal-resolution dynamic PET imaging based on a kinetic-induced voxel filter	17
Regional perception and multi-scale feature fusion network for cardiac segmentation	17
Resolving inter-crystal scatter in a light-sharing depth-encoding PET detector	16
Validation of complex radiotherapy techniques using polymer gel dosimetry	16
SPECT imaging of ²²⁶Ac as a theranostic isotope for ²²⁵Ac radiopharmaceutical development	16

3Dπ: three-dimensional positron imaging, a novel total-body PET scanner using xenon-doped liquid argon scintillator	16
Realization of the absorbed dose to water for 70 kV electronic brachytherapy sources for surface applications	16
Simulation study on the performance of time-over-threshold based positioning in monolithic PET detectors	16
Intensive vision-guided network for radiology report generation	16
Optimizing normal tissue sparing via spatiotemporal optimization under equivalent tumor-radical efficacy	16
State of the art on microbubble cavitation monitoring and feedback control for blood-brain-barrier opening using focused ultrasound	16
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	16
Real-time 4D MRI using MR signature matching (MRSIGMA) on a 1.5T MR-Linac system	16
Ultra-high energy spectral prompt PET	16
SCA-Former: transformer-like network based on stream-cross attention for medical image segmentation	16
A biological optimization method for carbon therapy via iterative Jacobian-based linearization	16
Pulsed RF knock-out extraction: a potential enabler for FLASH hadrontherapy in the Bragg peak	16
Dual-energy CT imaging with limited-angular-range data	16
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	16
Joint EURADOS WG9-WG11 rem-counter intercomparison in a Mevion S250i proton therapy facility with Hyperscan pulsed synchrocyclotron	16
A mask-compatible, radiolucent, 8-channel head and neck receive array for MRI-guided radiotherapy treatments and pre-treatment simulation	16
Resolution-dependent MRI-to-CT translation for orthotopic breast cancer models using deep learning	16
Towards magnetic-field-modulated radiotherapy (MagMRT) with an MR-LINAC—a Monte Carlo study	16
Data driven surrogate signal extraction for dynamic PET using selective PCA: time windows versus the combination of components	16
Estimating the hysteresis loss in magnetic nanoparticles by magnetic particle spectroscopy	16
Deep learning for high-resolution dose prediction in high dose rate brachytherapy for breast cancer treatment	15
Shoot-through proton FLASH irradiation lowers linear energy transfer in organs at risk for neurological tumors and is robust against density variations	15
Corrigendum: Data for the dosimetry of low- and medium-energy kV x rays (2019 Phys. Med. Biol. 64 205019)	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
Proton CT on biological phantoms for x-ray CT calibration in proton treatment planning	15
Full waveform inversion using frequency shift envelope-based global correlation norm for ultrasound computed tomography	15
CoTrFuse: a novel framework by fusing CNN and transformer for medical image segmentation	15
Current best estimates of beam quality correction factors for reference dosimetry of clinical proton beams	15
3D-localization of single point-like gamma sources with a coded aperture camera	15
In vivo adaptive focusing for clinical contrast-enhanced transcranial ultrasound imaging in human	15
Geometric evaluations of CT and MRI based deep learning segmentation for brain OARs in radiotherapy	15
Numerical simulations of an integrated radio-frequency/wireless coil design for simultaneous acquisition and wireless transfer of magnetic resonance imaging data	15
Research and application of omics and artificial intelligence in cancer	15
Experimental demonstration of accurate Bragg peak localization with ionoacoustic tandem phase detection (iTPD)	15
Basis and current state of computed tomography perfusion imaging: a review	14
Anatomy-wise lung ventilation imaging for precise functional lung avoidance radiation therapy	14
A 3D transfer learning approach for identifying multiple simultaneous errors during radiotherapy	14
A dosimetrically motivated pathfinding approach for non-isocentric dynamic trajectory radiotherapy	14
Ultra-high field MRI: parallel-transmit arrays and RF pulse design	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
Dual-branch hybrid encoding embedded network for histopathology image classification	14
Pulse-echo ultrasound attenuation tomography	14
Nano-scale simulation of neuronal damage by galactic cosmic rays	14
Suppressing HIFU interference in ultrasound images using 1D U-Net-based neural networks	14
PETcoil: first results from a second-generation RF-penetrable TOF-PET brain insert for simultaneous PET/MRI	14
Monte Carlo optimization of a GRID collimator for preclinical megavoltage ultra-high dose rate spatially-fractionated radiation therapy	14
Real-time integrated modeling of soft tissue deformation and stress based on deep learning	14
Minimizing susceptibility-induced BOLD sensitivity loss in multi-band accelerated fMRI using point spread function mapping and gradient reversal	14
Deep learning based direct segmentation assisted by deformable image registration for cone-beam CT based auto-segmentation for adaptive radiotherapy	14
Breaking boundaries in radiology: redefining AI diagnostics via raw data ahead of reconstruction	14
ReMAR: a preoperative CT angiography guided metal artifact reduction framework designed for follow-up CTA of endovascular coiling	14
Depth-of-interaction encoding techniques for pixelated PET detectors enabled by machine learning methods and fast waveform digitization	14
Ex vivo validation of non-invasive phase correction for transspine focused ultrasound: model performance and target feasibility	14
A multi-resolution TOF-DOI detector for human brain dedicated PET scanner	14
The first mobile photon-counting detector CT: the human images and technical performance study	14
SBL-LCGL: sparse Bayesian learning based on Laplace distribution for robust cone-beam x-ray luminescence computed tomography	13
Low-count PET image reconstruction based on truncated inverse radon layer and U-shaped network	13
Continuous implicit neural representation for arbitrary super-resolution of system matrix in magnetic particle imaging	13
Model-based deep CNN-regularized reconstruction for digital breast tomosynthesis with a task-based CNN image assessment approach	13
Geometrical imaging accuracy, image quality and plan quality for prostate cancer treatments on a 1.5 T MRLinac in patients with a unilateral hip implant	13
RadiSeq: a single- and bulk-cell whole-genome DNA sequencing simulator for radiation-damaged cell models	13
FAST (fast analytical simulator of tracer)-PET: an accurate and efficient PET analytical simulation tool	13
The effect of non-ionizing excitations on the diffusion of ion species and inter-track correlations in FLASH ultra-high dose rate radiotherapy	13
Real-time measurement of two-dimensional LET distributions of proton beams using scintillators	13
External beam irradiation angle measurement using a hybrid Cerenkov-scintillation detector	13
Corrigendum: Characterization of real-time cine MR imaging distortion on 0.35 T MRgRT with concentric cine imaging QA phantom (2024 Phys. Med. Biol. 69 065009)	13
An ensemble learning method based on ordinal regression for COVID-19 diagnosis from chest CT	13
Improved accuracy of relative electron density and proton stopping power ratio through CycleGAN machine learning	13
Tri-directional x-ray phase contrast multimodal imaging using one hexagonal mesh modulator	13
Estimating the modulating effect of lung tissue in particle therapy using a clinical CT voxel histogram analysis	13
A rapid element pressure field simulation method for transcranial phase correction in focused ultrasound therapy	13
Collection efficiencies of ionization chambers in pulsed radiation beams: an exact solution of an ion recombination model including free electron effects	13
Deep morphological recognition of kidney stones using intra-operative endoscopic digital videos	13
Dual-space disentangled-multimodal network (DDM-net) for glioma diagnosis and prognosis with incomplete pathology and genomic data	13
Reverberation clutter signal suppression in ultrasound attenuation estimation using wavelet-based robust principal component analysis	13
Robust optimization incorporating weekly predicted anatomical CTs in IMPT of nasopharyngeal cancer	13
Reply to Comments on ‘Modeling for predicting survival fraction of cells after ultra-high dose rate irradiation’	13
An inception network for positron emission tomography based dose estimation in carbon ion therapy	13
An iterative reconstruction algorithm for unsupervised PET image	13
Ion and secondary imaging	13
Spatially fractionated radiation therapy: a critical review on current status of clinical and preclinical studies and knowledge gaps	13
Experimental determination of modulation power of lung tissue for particle therapy	13
Predicting distant metastases in soft-tissue sarcomas from PET-CT scans using constrained hierarchical multi-modality feature learning	13
Field output correction factors and electron fluence perturbation of the microSilicon and microSilicon X detectors	13
Investigating the accuracy of co-registered ionoacoustic and ultrasound images in pulsed proton beams	13
Treatment envelope of transcranial histotripsy: challenges and strategies to maximize the treatment location profile	13
The impact of motion on onboard MRI-guided pencil beam scanned proton therapy treatments	13
Validation of patient-specific deep learning markerless lung tumor tracking aided by 4DCBCT	12
A dual-branch hybrid network with bilateral-difference awareness for collateral scoring on CT angiography of acute ischemic stroke patients	12
Monte Carlo-based dosimetry and optimization of a custom alpha cell irradiation setup	12
Comparison of semi-automatic and manual segmentation methods for tumor delineation on head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) positron emission tomography (PET) images	12
Dual-contrast photon-counting micro-CT using iodine and a novel bismuth-based contrast agent	12
Iterative reconstruction for limited-angle CT using implicit neural representation	12