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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Measured, calculated, and egs_brachy I‐125 dose distributions in a gold plaque for retinoblastoma treatment	136
A multi‐modality physical phantom for mimicking tumor heterogeneity patterns in PET/CT and PET/MRI	119
Influence of flow and susceptibility effects on spin dephasing in lung tissue	117
Issue Information	111
8+ Year Performance of the Gamma Knife Perfexion/Icon Patient Positioning System and Possibilities for Preemptive Fault Detection Using Statistical Process Control	109
Spectral CT using a fine grid structure and varying x‐ray incidence angle	103
Technical Note: A preliminary study of dual‐tracer PET image reconstruction guided by FDG and/or MR kernels	96
Multi‐scale statistical deformation based co‐registration of prostate MRI and post‐surgical whole mount histopathology	92
Spectral information content of Compton scattering events in silicon photon counting detectors	89
Uncertainty‐aware refinement framework for ovarian tumor segmentation in CECT volume	87
Segmentation of lung nodules based on a refined segmentation network	82
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Technical note: 3D‐printed phantom for dedicated cardiac protocols and geometries in nuclear medicine	78
A repository of grade 1 and 2 meningioma MRIs in a public dataset for radiomics reproducibility tests	77
Technical note: Preprocessing of portal images to improve image quality of VMAT‐CT	72
Development and benchmarking diffusion magnetic resonance imaging analysis for integration into radiation treatment planning	71
Deformable lung 4DCT image registration via landmark‐driven cycle network	70
Modeling absorbed alpha particle dose from diffusing alpha‐emitters radiation therapy in changing tissue volumes	69
A simple algorithm to derive virtual non‐contrast electron density from dual‐energy computed tomography data for radiotherapy treatment planning	67
Withdrawal	66
AAPM Task Group Report 325: MRI static magnetic field homogeneity measurement and evaluation procedures – Guidance and resources	64
Efficient segmentation of fetal brain MRI based on the physical resolution	59
A rotating beam‐blocker method for cone beam CT scatter correction	57
A novel method for highly linear gradient coil design based on stream function	55
Unsupervised shape‐and‐texture‐based generative adversarial tuning of pre‐trained networks for carotid segmentation from 3D ultrasound images	54

Generating 3D images of VMAT plans for predictive models and activation maps associated with plan deliverability	51
Monte Carlo simulations of microdosimetry and radiolytic species production at long time post proton irradiation using GATE and Geant4‐DNA	49
Streak artefact removal in x‐ray dark‐field computed tomography using a convolutional neural network	49
A data‐driven intravoxel mean diffusivities distribution approach for molecular classifications and MIB‐1 prediction of gliomas	48
Nerve recognition in percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic discectomy using convolutional neural network	47
Application of TVD‐Net for sagittal alignment and instability measurements in cervical spine radiographs	46
A combined non‐enhanced CT radiomics and clinical variable machine learning model for differentiating benign and malignant sub‐centimeter pulmonary solid nodules	46
A streak artifact reduction algorithm in sparse‐view CT using a self‐supervised neural representation	44
An integrated ultrasound imaging and abdominal compression device for respiratory motion management in radiation therapy	43
High‐resolution 3T to 7T ADC map synthesis with a hybrid CNN‐transformer model	43
Three‐dimensional image volumes from two‐dimensional digitally reconstructed radiographs: A deep learning approach in lower limb CT scans	42
FDRN: A fast deformable registration network for medical images	40
Ventilation measurements using fast‐helical free‐breathing computed tomography	38
Simulation of a novel, non‐invasive radiation detector to measure the arterial input function for dynamic positron emission tomography	37
An implicit neural deformable ray model for limited and sparse view‐based spatiotemporal reconstruction	36
MR‐Linac is a better choice for adaptive therapy compared to cone‐beam CT	36
Deep denoising approach to improve shear wave phase velocity map reconstruction in ultrasound elastography	35
Simple but rigorous procedure for ultrasound quality assurance	35
A unified deep‐learning framework for enhanced patient‐specific quality assurance of intensity‐modulated radiation therapy plans	33
Cover	33
Pulsed beam monitoring for electron FLASH	33
Dosimetric impact of physics libraries for electronic brachytherapy Monte Carlo studies	33
A robust optimization model for intensity‐modulated radiotherapy: Cheap‐Minimax	33
Attentive feature interaction based persistent homology‐augmented network for esophageal cancer lesion detection	33
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	32
A nonconvex model‐based combined geometric calibration scheme for micro cone‐beam CT with irregular trajectories	32
Swin MoCo: Improving parotid gland MRI segmentation using contrastive learning	32
Fully automatic online geometric calibration for non‐circular cone‐beam CT orbits using fiducials with unknown placement	32
Stereotactic radiosurgery commissioning and QA test cases—A TG‐119 approach for Stereotactic radiosurgery	31
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AAPM Task Group 241: A medical physicist’s guide to MRI‐guided focused ultrasound body systems	31
Author index	31
Issue Information	31
Risks of feature leakage and sample size dependencies in deep feature extraction for breast mass classification	31
Development of a neonate X‐ray phantom for 2D imaging applications using single‐tone inkjet printing	31
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Real‐time image‐guided treatment of mobile tumors in proton therapy by a library of treatment plans: a simulation study	30
Simultaneous temperature and viscosity estimation capability via magnetic nanoparticle relaxation	30
Cover	30
An endoluminal cylindrical sectored‐ring ultrasound phased‐array applicator for minimally‐invasive therapeutic ultrasound	30
System‐specific evaluation of the dual flip angle MRI technique for quantitative T₁ measurement	30
Effect of angular dependence for small‐field dosimetry using seven different detectors	30
In Regards to Barufaldi et al. Med Phys 49(4), 2220–2232	30
Dose coefficients for organ dosimetry in tomosynthesis imaging of adults and pediatrics across diverse protocols	29
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A novel method for rapid estimation of active bone marrow dose for radiotherapy patients in epidemiological studies	29
Modeling secondary cancer risk ratios for proton versus carbon ion beam therapy: A comparative study based on the local effect model	29
Multimodal radiotherapy dose prediction using a multi‐task deep learning model	29
Correcting statistical CT number biases without access to raw detector counts: Applications to high spatial resolution photon counting CT imaging	29
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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	29
Marker‐based C‐arm self‐calibration with unknown calibration pattern	29
The PTW microSilicon diode: Performance in small 6 and 15 MV photon fields and utility of density compensation	28
Creating uniform cluster dose spread‐out Bragg peaks for proton and carbon beams	28
Development of a multi‐layer quality assurance program to evaluate the uncertainty of deformable dose accumulation in adaptive radiotherapy	28
An analytical form of ring artifact correction for computed tomography based on directional gradient domain optimization	28
Vessel segmentation from volumetric images: a multi‐scale double‐pathway network with class‐balanced loss at the voxel level	28
Development of the quantitative PET prostate phantom (Q3P) for improved quality assurance of ¹⁸F‐PSMA PET imaging in metastatic prostate cancer	28
A comprehensive quality assurance protocol for electromagnetic tracking in brachytherapy	28
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Issue Information	27
Pediatric evaluations for deep learning CT denoising	27
Multiscale Monte Carlo simulations for dosimetry in x‐ray breast imaging: Part II ‐ Microscopic scales	27
A deep learning approach to estimate x‐ray scatter in digital breast tomosynthesis: From phantom models to clinical applications	27
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
Low‐dose CT denoising with a high‐level feature refinement and dynamic convolution network	26
Application of geometric shape‐based CT field‐of‐view extension algorithms in an all‐digital positron emission tomography/computed tomography system	26
Technical note: TERMA scaling as an effective heterogeneity correction model for convolution‐based external‐beam photon dose calculations	26
Pretreatment information–aided automatic segmentation for online magnetic resonance imaging‐guided prostate radiotherapy	26
Radiomics analysis of dual‐energy CT‐derived iodine maps for differentiating malignant from benign thyroid nodules	25
Optical Automatic Contour Tracing (O‐ACT) – A novel optical image‐guided contour tracing method for electron beam shaping	25
A comprehensive Monte Carlo study of CT dose metrics proposed by the AAPM Reports 111 and 200	25
Changes in the relaxivity of water‐organic solvent miscible systems: Hidden forces beyond metal ions	25
Multi‐collimator proton minibeam radiotherapy with joint dose and PVDR optimization	25
Using CT images to assist the segmentation of MR images via generalization: Segmentation of the renal parenchyma of renal carcinoma patients	25
Development of patient‐specific pre‐treatment verification procedure for FLASH proton therapy based on time resolved film dosimetry	25
A neural network with encoded visible edge prior for limited‐angle computed tomography reconstruction	25
Comparative image quality and dosimetric performance of two generations of dedicated breast CT systems	24
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Kinetic parameter estimation of hepatocellular carcinoma on ¹⁸F‐FDG PET/CT based on Bayesian method	24
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Diamond detectors for dose and instantaneous dose‐rate measurements for ultra‐high dose‐rate scanned helium ion beams	24
Development of a storage phosphor imaging system for proton pencil beam spot profile determination	24
Chan–Vese aided fuzzy C‐means approach for whole breast and fibroglandular tissue segmentation: Preliminary application to real‐world breast MRI	24
Intrinsic radiomic expression patterns after 20 Gy demonstrate early metabolic response of oropharyngeal cancers	24
fastCAT: Fast cone beam CT (CBCT) simulation	24
Vibration‐controlled transient elastography for noninvasive evaluation of liver steatosis	23
A finite element method for modeling diffusion of alpha‐emitting particles in tissue	23
Sparsier2Sparse: Self‐supervised convolutional neural network‐based streak artifacts reduction in sparse‐view CT images	23
A prediction model for dosimetric‐based lung adaptive radiotherapy	23
Technical note: Determination of proton linear energy transfer from the integral depth dose	23
Technical Note: Volumetric coverage in breast tomosynthesis images — Phantom QC results from the TMIST study	23
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Segmentation of carotid artery vessel wall and diagnosis of carotid atherosclerosis on black blood magnetic resonance imaging with multi‐task learning	22
HMA‐Net: A deep U‐shaped network combined with HarDNet and multi‐attention mechanism for medical image segmentation	22
Impact of cone‐beam computed tomography artifacts on dose calculation accuracy for lung cancer	22
Enhancing adaptive proton therapy through CBCT images: Synthetic head and neck CT generation based on 3D vision transformers	22
Respiratory motion management using a single rapid MRI scan for a 0.35 T MRI‐Linac system	22
AAPM Task Group Report 311: Guidance for performance evaluation of fluorescence‐guided surgery systems	22
Protocol optimization for functional cardiac CT imaging using noise emulation in the raw data domain	22
Reconstruction of multi‐phase parametric maps in 4D‐magnetic resonance fingerprinting (4D‐MRF) by optimization of local T1 and T2 sensitivities	22
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
Machine learning‐generated decision boundaries for prediction and exploration of patient‐specific quality assurance failures in stereotactic radiosurgery plans	22
Neural network dose prediction for cervical brachytherapy: Overcoming data scarcity for applicator‐specific models	22
Secondary neutron dosimetry for conformal FLASH proton therapy	22
Deep learning proton beam range estimation model for quality assurance based on two‐dimensional scintillated light distributions in simulations	21
Technical note: Monte Carlo study of the mechanism of proton–boron fusion therapy	21
Classification of tolerable/intolerable mucosal toxicity of head‐and‐neck radiotherapy schedules with a biomathematical model of cell dynamics	21
A workflow for predicting radiofrequency‐induced heating around bilateral deep brain stimulation electrodes in MRI	21
Ultrasound‐gated computed tomography coronary angiography: Development of ultrasound transducers with improved computed tomography compatibility	21
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VerteFormer: A single‐staged Transformer network for vertebrae segmentation from CT images with arbitrary field of views	21
Decoupling convolution network for characterizing the metastatic lymph nodes of breast cancer patients	21
Physical and imaging performance of SIAT aPET under different energy windows and timing windows	21
Determining the reliable feature change in longitudinal radiomics studies: A methodological approach using the reliable change index	20
Quantitative analysis of dose‐averaged linear energy transfer (LET_d) robustness in pencil beam scanning proton lung plans	20
A novel calorimeter for synchrotron produced monochromatic x‐ray beams	20
CIABNet: Category imbalance attention block network for the classification of multi‐differentiated types of esophageal cancer	20
Conformance of a 3T radiotherapy MRI scanner to the QIBA Diffusion Profile	20
Universal implementation of automated treatment planning software will be detrimental to future generations of trainees	20
Technical note: rtdsm—An open‐source software for radiotherapy dose‐surface map generation and analysis	20
Impact of iterative reconstruction algorithms on the applicability of Fourier‐based detectability index for x‐ray CT imaging	20
A method for Kashin‐Beck disease auxiliary diagnosis based on the features in regions of the potential lesion	20
Thin slice photon‐counting CT coronary angiography compared to conventional CT: Objective image quality and clinical radiation dose assessment	20
Early CT physics research at Massachusetts General Hospital	20
The impact of MR‐based attenuation correction in spinal cord FDG‐PET/MR imaging for neurological studies	20
Motion‐based microwave tomographic measurement device for three‐dimensional coverage in a magnetic resonance system	20
Complementation‐reinforced network for integrated reconstruction and segmentation of pulmonary gas MRI with high acceleration	20
Iterative image reconstruction with polar coordinate discretized system matrix for optical CT radiochromic gel dosimetry	20

A roadmap to clinical trials for FLASH	20
MsgeCNN: Multiscale geometric embedded convolutional neural network for ONFH segmentation and grading	20
Optimizing dual‐energy CT technique for iodine‐based contrast‐to‐noise ratio, a theoretical study	20
Past AAPM President: 2000	19
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.	19
Fully automated cardiac MRI segmentation using dilated residual network	19
Self‐reported COVID‐19 infection, and illness severity associated with a large professional‐society meeting of the AAPM in 2022	19
Topology observing 3D device reconstruction from continuous‐sweep limited angle fluoroscopy	19
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Past AAPM President: 2014	19
Past AAPM President: 2006	19
Chest tomosynthesis deblurring using CNN with deconvolution layer for vertebrae segmentation	19
Past AAPM President: 2017	19
Single‐shot T₂ mapping via multi‐echo‐train multiple overlapping‐echo detachment planar imaging and multitask deep learning	19
Monte Carlo based continuous aperture optimization for VMAT on conventional and MR‐linacs: A proof of concept	19
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Past AAPM President: 2003	19
The beginning of linac radiosurgery at the JCRT	19
Real‐time liver motion estimation via deep learning‐based angle‐agnostic X‐ray imaging	19
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Ion chamber and film‐based quality assurance of mixed electron‐photon radiation therapy	19
Transrectal ultrasound vector projectile imaging for time‐resolved visualization of flow dynamics in the male urethra: A clinical pilot study	19
Unbiased evaluation of predicted gamma passing rate by an event‐mixing technique	18
Technical note: High‐efficient and wireless transcranial ultrasound excitation based on electromagnetic acoustic transducer	18
Development of scalable lymphatic system in the 4D XCAT phantom: Application to quantitative evaluation of lymphoma PET segmentations	18
Dose kernel decomposition for spot‐based radiotherapy treatment planning	18
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Technical note: MAMBA—Multi‐pAradigM voxel‐Based Analysis: A computational cookbot	18
Incorporating uncertainty bounds in daily deformable dose accumulation for adaptive radiation therapy of head‐and‐neck cancer	18
Direct energy binning for photon counting detectors: Simulation study	18
AAPM Task Group Report 261: Comprehensive quality control methodology and management of dental and maxillofacial cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) systems	18
Cross‐engine transformation‐based fast dose calculation for MRI‐Linac online treatment planning	18
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Biomechanical characteristics in the carotid artery: Noninvasive assessment using subharmonic emissions from microbubbles	18
A feasibility study of three‐dimensional ultrasound imaging of the vagina under distension	18
A Scholte wave approach for ultrasonic surface acoustic wave elastography	18
A double‐strand‐break model for the relative biological effectiveness of electrons based on ionization clustering	18
Unraveling the interplay of image formation, data representation and learning in CT‐based COPD phenotyping automation: The need for a meta‐strategy	18
Three‐dimensional self super‐resolution for pelvic floor MRI using a convolutional neural network with multi‐orientation data training	18
Assisted annotation in Deep LOGISMOS: Simultaneous multi‐compartment 3D MRI segmentation of calf muscles	18
Energy‐dependence investigation for a range of clinically used detectors from 70 kV to 6 MV	18
Size‐adaptive mediastinal multilesion detection in chest CT images via deep learning and a benchmark dataset	18
Volumetric dose extension for isodose tuning	17
Skull phantom‐based methodology to validate MRI co‐registration accuracy for Gamma Knife radiosurgery	17
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Influence of cerebrospinal fluid on power absorption during transcranial magnetic resonance‐guided focused ultrasound treatment	17
Lung CT harmonization of paired reconstruction kernel images using generative adversarial networks	17
Improvement of phoswich detector‐based β+/γ‐ray discrimination algorithm with deep learning	17
A new sonoablation using acoustic droplet vaporization and focused ultrasound: A feasibility study	17
Issue Information	17
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	17
Exploration of the pulse pileup effects in a clinical CdTe‐based photon‐counting computed tomography	17
A scattering‐foil free electron beam to increase dose rate for total skin electron therapy (TSET)	17
Technical note: Errors introduced when using Dose Voxel Kernels for estimating absorbed dose from radiopharmaceutical therapies involving alpha emitters	17
Technical Note: Swing golden angle – A navigator‐interleaved golden angle trajectory with eddy current suppression – Application in free‐running cardiac MRI	17
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Issue Information	17
Technical note: Comparison of arithmetic mean and energy‐weighted mean flood histogram generation methods for dual‐ended readout positron emission tomography detectors	17
Technical note: Analysis of brachytherapy source movement by high‐speed camera	17
The self‐distillation trained multitask dense‐attention network for diagnosing lung cancers based on CT scans	17
Squeeze‐and‐excitation‐attention‐based mobile vision transformer for grading recognition of bladder prolapse in pelvic MRI images	17
Hepatic and portal vein segmentation with dual‐stream deep neural network	17
AAPM Task Group Report 238: 3D C‐arms with volumetric imaging capability*	17
The feasibility study of XACT imaging for characterizing osteoporosis	16
Technical note: Assessment of radiation measurement devices for the detection of [¹⁷⁷Lu]Lu‐labeled radiopharmaceuticals containing [^177mLu]Lu‐impurities	16
Predicting the net administered activity in ⁹⁰Y‐radioembolization patients from post‐procedure ⁹⁰Y‐SPECT/CT	16
Deep learning‐based coronary artery motion estimation and compensation for short‐scan cardiac CT	16
Technical note: Toward implementation of MR‐guided radiation therapy for laryngeal cancer with healthy volunteer imaging and a custom MR‐CT larynx phantom	16
3D computational model of oxygen depletion kinetics in brain vasculature during FLASH RT and its implications for in vivo oximetry experiments	16
Design and evaluation of 3D printable patient‐specific applicators for gynecologic HDR brachytherapy	16
Feasibility of 4D HDR brachytherapy source tracking using x‐ray tomosynthesis: Monte Carlo investigation	16
Self‐supervised learning for accelerated 3D high‐resolution ultrasound imaging	16
Artificial intelligence for prediction of measurement‐based patient‐specific quality assurance is ready for prime time	16
Issue Information	16
An experimental framework for assessing the detective quantum efficiency of spectroscopic x‐ray detectors	16
Assessment of breast cancer response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy based on ultrasound backscattering envelope statistics	16
Very high‐energy electron dose calculation using the Fermi‐Eyges theory of multiple scattering and a simplified pencil beam model	15
Validating the accuracy of multispectral metal artifact suppressed diffusion‐weighted imaging	15
Rapid estimation of patient‐specific organ doses using a deep learning network	15
The effect of transmit B₁ inhomogeneity on hyperpolarized [1‐¹³C]‐pyruvate metabolic MR imaging biomarkers	15
Biological dose‐based fractional dose optimization of Bragg peak FLASH‐RT for lung cancer treatment	15
The design of a novel direction modulated brachytherapy vaginal cylinder applicator for optimizing coverage of the apex	15
IMAL‐Net: Interpretable multi‐task attention learning network for invasive lung adenocarcinoma screening in CT images	15
Delineation of clinical target volume and organs at risk in cervical cancer radiotherapy by deep learning networks	15
MRI‐based radiomics nomogram for the preoperative prediction of deep myometrial invasion of FIGO stage I endometrial carcinoma	15
Interfractional diaphragmatic position variation according to stomach volume change during respiratory‐gated radiotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma	15
Advanced prediction of multi‐leaf collimator leaf position using artificial neural network	15
Technical note: Evaluation of a V‐Net autosegmentation algorithm for pediatric CT scans: Performance, generalizability, and application to patient‐specific CT dosimetry	15
Dosimetric characterization of a novel commercial plastic scintillation detector with an MR‐Linac	15
A multi‐scale, multi‐region and attention mechanism‐based deep learning framework for prediction of grading in hepatocellular carcinoma	15
Transfer learning for data‐efficient abdominal muscle segmentation with convolutional neural networks	15
Applying deep generative model in plan review of intensity modulated radiotherapy	15
Validity of equivalent square field concept in small field dosimetry	15