OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical Physics is 7. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Influence of flow and susceptibility effects on spin dephasing in lung tissue	157
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	138
Past AAPM President: 2003	131
Past AAPM President: 2006	97
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Technical note: High‐efficient and wireless transcranial ultrasound excitation based on electromagnetic acoustic transducer	88
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Technical note: Determination of proton linear energy transfer from the integral depth dose	70
Automatic segmentation of hyperreflective dots via focal priors and visual saliency	68
Technical note: Providing proton fields down to the few‐MeV level at clinical pencil beam scanning facilities for radiobiological experiments	67
Dose coefficients for organ dosimetry in tomosynthesis imaging of adults and pediatrics across diverse protocols	66
A deep supervised transformer U‐shaped full‐resolution residual network for the segmentation of breast ultrasound image	65
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Technical note: Assessment of radiation measurement devices for the detection of [¹⁷⁷Lu]Lu‐labeled radiopharmaceuticals containing [^177mLu]Lu‐impurities	60
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Development of patient‐specific pre‐treatment verification procedure for FLASH proton therapy based on time resolved film dosimetry	57
Scanned particle‐beam tracking with beam correction based on predictive volumetric imaging: A simulation study	54
Radiomics‐based kidney lesion classification: Mitigating batch effect with nested combat harmonization	52
High spatiotemporal‐resolution abdominal 4D‐MRI through respiratory‐synchronized frame collaborative reconstruction	51
AAPM TG report 330: EPID‐based quality assurance of linear accelerators	50
Quantitative ultrasound moment‐based double Nakagami distribution method	48
Super‐resolved q‐space learning of diffusion MRI	47
Feasibility of tumor detection with a transmission‐based microwave imaging system	47
Innovative integration of augmented reality and optical surface imaging: A coarse‐to‐precise system for radiotherapy positioning	47

Impact of cone‐beam computed tomography artifacts on dose calculation accuracy for lung cancer	47
Hepatic and portal vein segmentation with dual‐stream deep neural network	45
MR‐guided ion therapy: Detector response in magnetic fields during carbon ion irradiation	45
AAPM Task Group Report 272: Comprehensive acceptance testing and evaluation of fluoroscopy imaging systems	44
A new visual State Space Model for low‐dose CT denoising	42
A nonconvex model‐based combined geometric calibration scheme for micro cone‐beam CT with irregular trajectories	42
Deep learning‐based AI model for signet‐ring cell carcinoma diagnosis and chemotherapy response prediction in gastric cancer	41
A multi‐scale, multi‐region and attention mechanism‐based deep learning framework for prediction of grading in hepatocellular carcinoma	41
Efficient proton arc optimization and delivery through energy layer pre‐selection and post‐filtering	40
Optimization of proton pencil beam positioning in collimated fields	39
Static proton arc therapy: Comprehensive plan quality evaluation and first clinical treatments in patients with complex head and neck targets	39
MRI‐based radiomics nomogram for the preoperative prediction of deep myometrial invasion of FIGO stage I endometrial carcinoma	39
Single‐shot T₂ mapping via multi‐echo‐train multiple overlapping‐echo detachment planar imaging and multitask deep learning	39
A novel image segmentation network with multi‐scale and flow‐guided attention for early screening of vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia (VAIN)	38
Transfer learning for DL‐based Synthetic CT after reconstruction algorithm upgrade in a proton therapy clinic	37
Deep learning‐based estimation of respiration‐induced deformation from surface motion: A proof‐of‐concept study on 4D thoracic image synthesis	37
Real‐time liver motion estimation via deep learning‐based angle‐agnostic X‐ray imaging	37
The Cut‐Sort‐Group algorithm for efficient delivery of collimated step‐and‐shoot proton arc therapy	37
Pulsed beam monitoring for electron FLASH	36
Technical assessment of 2D and 3D imaging performance of an IGZO‐based flat‐panel X‐ray detector	36
Streak artefact removal in x‐ray dark‐field computed tomography using a convolutional neural network	36
EBC‐Net: 3D semi‐supervised segmentation of pancreas based on edge‐biased consistency regularization in dual perturbation space	36
Predicting radiation‐induced immune suppression in lung cancer patients treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy	36
Effect of angular dependence for small‐field dosimetry using seven different detectors	35
Optimized acoustic streaming generated at oblique incident angles to improve ultrasound thrombolysis effect	35
Pathology steered stratification network for subtype identification in Alzheimer's disease	35
Channelized hotelling observer‐based low‐contrast detectability on the ACR CT accreditation phantom: Part II. Repeatability study	34
Evaluation of split renal dysfunction using radiomics based on magnetic resonance diffusion‐weighted imaging	34
A simple algorithm to derive virtual non‐contrast electron density from dual‐energy computed tomography data for radiotherapy treatment planning	34
Evaluating the impact of different positron emitters on the performance of a clinical PET/MR system	34
A robust optimization model for intensity‐modulated radiotherapy: Cheap‐Minimax	33
A repository of grade 1 and 2 meningioma MRIs in a public dataset for radiomics reproducibility tests	33
Multi‐scale statistical deformation based co‐registration of prostate MRI and post‐surgical whole mount histopathology	32
Protocol optimization for functional cardiac CT imaging using noise emulation in the raw data domain	32
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Stability analysis of patient‐specific 4DCT‐ and 4DCBCT‐based correspondence models	32
Assisted annotation in Deep LOGISMOS: Simultaneous multi‐compartment 3D MRI segmentation of calf muscles	32
Whole‐body tumor segmentation from PET/CT images using a two‐stage cascaded neural network with camouflaged object detection mechanisms	31
Report on the AAPM deep‐learning sparse‐view CT grand challenge	31
Determining the reliable feature change in longitudinal radiomics studies: A methodological approach using the reliable change index	31
A theoretical study of H₂O₂ as the surrogate of dose in minibeam radiotherapy, with a diffusion model considering radical removal process	31
Lung CT harmonization of paired reconstruction kernel images using generative adversarial networks	31
Applying deep generative model in plan review of intensity modulated radiotherapy	30
Vibration‐controlled transient elastography for noninvasive evaluation of liver steatosis	30
Lung cancer dose distribution prediction based on a dual‐branch feature extraction network	30
Validity of equivalent square field concept in small field dosimetry	29
Evaluation of a conventionally shielded proton treatment room for FLASH radiotherapy	29
Segmentation of pancreatic tumors based on multi‐scale convolution and channel attention mechanism in the encoder‐decoder scheme	29
A personal perspective on the development and future of cone‐beam CT for image‐guided radiotherapy	28
Accurate total‐body K_i parametric imaging with shortened dynamic ¹⁸F‐FDG PET scan durations via effective data processing	28

Time‐resolved dose rate measurements in pencil beam scanning proton FLASH therapy with a fiber‐coupled scintillator detector system	28
An attention mechanism‐based lightweight UNet for musculoskeletal ultrasound image segmentation	28
Simulation studies of a full‐ring, CZT SPECT system for whole‐body imaging of ^99mTc and ¹⁷⁷Lu	28
Squeeze‐and‐excitation‐attention‐based mobile vision transformer for grading recognition of bladder prolapse in pelvic MRI images	28
Multi‐scale nested graph transformer with graph operations: Advancing high‐resolution chest x‐ray classification	27
AI in breast imaging: A systematic review of reader studies evaluating design, performance, and clinical impact	27
AAPM Task Group Report 238: 3D C‐arms with volumetric imaging capability*	27
Technical note: Analysis of brachytherapy source movement by high‐speed camera	27
Prior‐guided automatic delineation of post‐radiotherapy gross tumor volume for esophageal cancer	27
Simultaneous temperature and viscosity estimation capability via magnetic nanoparticle relaxation	27
Lesion‐guided selective multi‐modal integration for prostate cancer segmentation and PI‐RADS grading in MP‐MRI	27
Eigenbin compression for reducing photon‐counting CT data size	26
Fusion of CT images and clinical variables based on deep learning for predicting invasiveness risk of stage I lung adenocarcinoma	26
Transcranial ultrasound simulations: A review	26
Modeling secondary cancer risk ratios for proton versus carbon ion beam therapy: A comparative study based on the local effect model	26
Predictive stroke risk model with vision transformer‐based Doppler features	26
Simultaneous dose and dose rate optimization (SDDRO) of the FLASH effect for pencil‐beam‐scanning proton therapy	26
Ultra‐low dose hip CT‐based automated measurement of volumetric bone mineral density at proximal femoral subregions	26
Technical note: Air bubble‐induced performance degradation in automatic rectum segmentation from cone‐beam CT	25
Technical note: Determining the applicability of a clinical knowledge‐based learning model via prospective outlier detection	25
Assessment of dual time point protocols to produce parametric K_i images in FDG PET/CT: A virtual clinical study	25
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Estimating the differences between inter‐operator contrast enhancement in cerebral CT angiography	25
Photon counting x‐ray detectors as scatter probes	25
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Annihilation‐Net: Learned annihilation relation for dynamic MR imaging	25
Improved brain metastases segmentation using generative adversarial network and conditional random field optimization mask R‐CNN	24
Prediction of electron‐solid interaction parameters using machine learning	24
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MRI‐based quantification of carbon and oxygen concentrations in human soft tissues for range verification in proton therapy	24
Liver fibrosis automatic diagnosis utilizing dense‐fusion attention contrastive learning network	24
Commissioning of respiratory‐gated 4D dynamic dose calculations for various gating widths without spot timestamp in proton pencil beam scanning	24
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Deep‐Interior: A new pathway to interior tomographic image reconstruction via a weighted backprojection and deep learning	23
Improving the Scientific Impact of Medical Physics: Challenges and Opportunities: Editor‐in‐Chief 2014–2020	23
Stopping‐power ratio estimation for proton radiotherapy using dual‐energy computed tomography and prior‐image constrained denoising	23
Semi‐supervised liver segmentation based on local regions self‐supervision	23
Past AAPM President: 2002	23
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Aberration correction by polynomial approximation for synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging	23
Volumetric segmentation of ground glass nodule based on 3D attentional cascaded residual U‐Net and conditional random field	23
Past AAPM President: 2010	23
Extracting transition features among brain states based on coarse‐grained similarity measurement for autism spectrum disorder analysis	23
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Physical dose validation of dynamic treatment for Gamma Knife radiosurgery	23
Past AAPM President: 2020	23
Generation of synthetic megavoltage CT for MRI‐only radiotherapy treatment planning using a 3D deep convolutional neural network	22
Technical note: Optimal allocation of limited proton therapy resources using model‐based patient selection	22
A feasibility study on deep‐neural‐network‐based dose‐neutral dual‐energy digital breast tomosynthesis	22
Semi‐supervised medical image segmentation via cross‐guidance and feature‐level consistency dual regularization schemes	22
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Automated determination of the ion‐recombination correction factor (k_sat) in ultra‐high dose rate electron radiation therapy	22
Quality assurance assessment of intra‐acquisition diffusion‐weighted and T2‐weighted magnetic resonance imaging registration and contour propagation for head and neck cancer radiotherapy	22
Using 3D deep features from CT scans for cancer prognosis based on a video classification model: A multi‐dataset feasibility study	22
Development of an abdominal phantom for the validation of an oligometastatic disease diagnosis workflow	22
Design and optimization of thin‐film tungsten (W)‐diamond target for multi‐pixel X‐ray sources	22
Audit of data from examination image headers collected for quality assurance in the ECOG‐ACRIN EA1151 tomosynthesis mammographic imaging screening trial (TMIST)	22
A novel transformer‐based ECG dimensionality reduction stacked auto‐encoders for arrhythmia beat detection	21
Characterizing diamond detectors for various dose and dose rate measurements in scanned carbon and oxygen beams	21
Deep learning‐based hippocampus asymmetry assessment for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis	21
Ultra‐high dose rate FLASH radiation therapy for cancer	21
A motion analysis of cardiac substructures for guiding stereotactic arrhythmia radiotherapy motion management	21
Preserving noise texture through training data curation for deep learning denoising of high‐resolution cardiac EID‐CT	21
Intraradiological pathology‐calibrated electrical impedance spectroscopy in the evaluation of excision‐required breast lesions	21
End‐to‐end deep learning approach for uterine artery‐ovarian artery anastomosis detection from digital subtraction angiography sequences	21
Image‐domain material decomposition for dual‐energy CT using unsupervised learning with data‐fidelity loss	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
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
Detection and quantification of small and low‐uptake lesions for differentiated thyroid carcinoma using non‐time‐of‐flight iodine‐124 PET/MRI	20
Patient‐derived heterogeneous breast phantoms for advanced dosimetry in mammography and tomosynthesis	20
Training of a deep learning based digital subtraction angiography method using synthetic data	20
Deep learning‐based low‐dose CT simulator for non‐linear reconstruction methods	20
U‐shaped network combining dual‐stream fusion mamba and redesigned multilayer perceptron for myocardial pathology segmentation	20
Effect of a consistent reconstruction algorithm on inter‐scanner reproducibility in diffusion MRI	20
Towards subpercentage uncertainty proton stopping‐power mapping via dual‐energy CT: Direct experimental validation and uncertainty analysis of a statistical iterative image reconstruction method	20
Direct estimation of regional lung volume change from paired and single CT images using residual regression neural network	20
A novel cross‐modal data augmentation method based on contrastive unpaired translation network for kidney segmentation in ultrasound imaging	20
A virtual imaging study of microcalcification detection performance in digital breast tomosynthesis: Patients versus 3D textured phantoms	20

Synthetic CT generation based on CBCT using respath‐cycleGAN	20
Clinical commissioning of the first point‐of‐care spectral photon‐counting CT for the upper extremities	20
More than pretty pictures: 3‐D treatment planning and conformal therapy	20
Monte Carlo simulation‐based patient‐specific QA using machine log files for line‐scanning proton radiation therapy	20
A semi‐automatic analytical methodology for characterizing the energy consumption of MRI systems using load duration curves	20
An MR‐only deep learning inference model‐based dose estimation algorithm for MR‐guided adaptive radiation therapy	20
A novel tool for predicting the dose distribution of non‐sealed ¹⁸⁸Re (Rhenium) resin in non‐melanoma skin cancers (NMSC) patients	19
Transducer module apodization to reduce bone heating during focused ultrasound uterine fibroid ablation with phased arrays: A numerical study	19
Prediction of early recurrence of adult‐type diffuse gliomas following radiotherapy using multi‐modal magnetic resonance images	19
Electron ultra‐high dose rate FLASH irradiation study using a clinical linac: Linac modification, dosimetry, and radiobiological outcome	19
Transformer‐based deep learning for predicting brain tumor recurrence using magnetic resonance imaging	19
A fidelity‐embedded learning for metal artifact reduction in dental CBCT	19
Preoperative prediction of lymph node metastasis in colorectal cancer using ¹⁸F‐FDG PET/CT peritumoral radiomics analysis	19
Technical note: Proton beam dosimetry at ultra‐high dose rates (FLASH): Evaluation of GAFchromic™ (EBT3, EBT‐XD) and OrthoChromic (OC‐1) film performances	19
A hybrid training database and evaluation benchmark for assessing metal artifact reduction methods for X‐ray CT imaging	19
Comparing organ and effective dose of various CT localizer acquisition strategies: A Monte Carlo study	19
On the field size definition and field output factors in small field dosimetry	19
A clustering‐based approach to address correlated features in predicting genitourinary toxicity from MRI‐guided prostate SBRT	19
Noise reduction profile: A new method for evaluation of noise reduction techniques in CT	19
Fast and accurate dose predictions for novel radiotherapy treatments in heterogeneous phantoms using conditional 3D‐UNet generative adversarial networks	19
Low‐dose CT reconstruction with Noise2Noise network and testing‐time fine‐tuning	19
Voxel‐wise supervised analysis of tumors with multimodal engineered features to highlight interpretable biological patterns	19
Development of an automated treatment planning approach for lattice radiation therapy	18
Design of static and dynamic ridge filters for FLASH–IMPT: A simulation study	18
Enhancing prostate cancer segmentation on multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging with background information and gland masks	18
Investigation of four‐dimensional (4D) Monte Carlo dose calculation in real‐time tumor tracking stereotatic body radiotherapy for lung cancers	18
Minimum phantom size for megavoltage photon beam reference dosimetry	18
Self‐calibrated epipolar reconstruction for assessment of aneurysms in the internal carotid artery using in‐silico biplane angiograms	18
An in silico study on the detectability of field cancerization through parenchymal analysis of digital mammograms	18
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Open‐source hardware and software for the measurement, characterization, reporting, and correction of geometric distortion in MRI	18
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Development and verification of radiomics framework for computed tomography image segmentation	18
A feasibility study of the therapeutic application of a mixture of ^67/64Cu radioisotopes produced by cyclotrons with proton irradiation	18
Small‐field output factor dependence on the field size definition in MR‐Linac	18
Improved precision of SPECT myocardial blood flow using a net tracer retention model	18
Investigation on the physical dose filtered by linear energy transfer for treatment plan evaluation in carbon ion therapy	18
Efficient fetal ultrasound image segmentation for automatic head circumference measurement using a lightweight deep convolutional neural network	18
Warp‐based edge feature reinforcement network for medical image segmentation	18
Multi‐eXpert fusion: An ensemble learning framework to segment 3D TRUS prostate images	18
Predicting early stage lung cancer recurrence and survival from combined tumor motion amplitude and radiomics on free‐breathing 4D‐CT	18
Joint radial trajectory correction for accelerated T₂^* mapping on an MR‐Linac	18
Timing‐synchronized passive ultrasound imaging of cavitation using eigenspace‐based minimum variance beamforming and principal component analysis	18
Radiogenomic explainable AI with neural ordinary differential equation for identifying post‐SRS brain metastasis radionecrosis	17
Complexity‐based unsupervised machine learning for patient‐specific VMAT quality assurance	17
PUNDIT: Pulmonary nodule detection with image category transformation	17
Absorbed dose differences between twin fetuses for pregnancy patients in CT examinations	17
AAPM should sunset TG‐51 and adopt IAEA TRS‐398	17
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Most DNA repair defects do not modify the relationship between relative biological effectiveness and linear energy transfer in CRISPR‐edited cells	17
A persistent belief in radiopharmaceutical therapy	17
Challenges in modeling the Agility multileaf collimator in treatment planning systems and current needs for improvement	17
An adaptive proton FLASH therapy using modularized pin ridge filter	17
Model‐based perfusion reconstruction with time separation technique in cone‐beam CT dynamic liver perfusion imaging	17
MR imaging of proton beam‐induced oxygen depletion	17
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Multi‐task generative model for high‐quality magnetic particle imaging reconstruction	17
Accelerated dynamic MR imaging with joint balanced low‐rank tensor and sparsity constraints	17
A probabilistic thermal dose model for the estimation of necrosis in MR‐guided tumor ablations	17
Development and characterization of a prototype selenium‐75 high dose rate brachytherapy source	17
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Semi‐automated topic identification for radiation oncology safety event reports using natural language processing and statistical modeling	17
Framework to calculate ²²⁵Ac, ¹⁷⁷Lu, and ¹⁶¹Tb radiation dose and biological effect in metastatic castration‐resistant prostate cancer treatment	17
Possibility of increasing linear energy transfer in multi‐ion radiotherapy for bone and soft tissue sarcomas	17
Multi‐energy blended CBCT spectral imaging and scatter‐decoupled material decomposition using a spectral modulator with flying focal spot (SMFFS)	16
Novel magnetic embolic MRI imageable particles with anticancer drug release for transcatheter arterial embolization and magnetic ablation	16
AAPM 2024 66th Annual Meeting & Exhibition July 21–25 Los Angeles,CA	16
Quantifying dose perturbations in high‐risk prostate radiotherapy due to translational and rotational motion of prostate and pelvic lymph nodes	16
Image‐guided surgery: Technology and opportunities for medical physics	16
FLASH irradiation‐induced acute lung injury promotes metastatic colonization via neutrophil extracellular trap formation	16
A multi‐stage fusion framework to classify breast lesions using deep learning and radiomics features computed from four‐view mammograms	16
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FaxMatch: Multi‐Curriculum Pseudo‐Labeling for semi‐supervised medical image classification	16
Experimental investigation of dynamic real‐time rotation‐including dose reconstruction during prostate tracking radiotherapy	16
AAPM Truth‐based CT (TrueCT) reconstruction grand challenge	16
A multi‐modal diffusion model for noise reduction of particle number limited Monte Carlo dose calculation for carbon ion radiotherapy	16
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Technique selection and technical developments for 2D dual‐energy subtraction angiography on an interventional C‐arm	16
Seventieth Annual Scientific Meeting of Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists, Delta Hotels, Regina, Saskatchewan, June 5–8, 2024	16
Technical note: Cartilage imaging with sub‐cellular resolution using a laboratory‐based phase‐contrast x‐ray microscope	16
Automatic right ventricular segmentation for cine cardiac magnetic resonance images based on a new deep atlas network	16
Comprehensive evaluation of dosimetric impact against position errors in accelerator‐based BNCT under different treatment parameter settings	16
Benchmarking machine learning‐based real‐time respiratory signal predictors in 4D SBRT	16
A noise robust image reconstruction using slice aware cycle interpolator network for parallel imaging in MRI	16
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Suitability of novel 3D‐printed and coated vessels for water calorimetry	15
Pulmonary arteries segmentation from CT images using PA‐Net with attention module and contour loss	15
Deep learning models for separate segmentations of intracerebral and intraventricular hemorrhage on head CT and segmentation quality assessment	15
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Technical note: System uncertainty on four‐ and eight‐channel parallel RF transmission for safe MRI of deep brain stimulation devices	15
An optimized framework for cone‐beam computed tomography‐based online evaluation for proton therapy	15
Technical note: A PET/MR coil with an integrated, orbiting 511 keV transmission source for PET/MR imaging validated in an animal study	15
Proof‐of‐concept for a thin conical X‐ray target optimized for intensity and directionality for use in a carbon nanotube‐based compact X‐ray tube	15
Boundary information‐guided adversarial diffusion model for efficient unsupervised synthetic CT generation	15