Photons
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Subject Areas on Research
- A comparison of clinical and dosimetric outcomes in patients receiving partial breast irradiation with photon-only versus mixed photon/electron treatment plans.
- A cone beam SPECT reconstruction algorithm with a displaced center of rotation.
- A dose-reconstruction study of the 1997 Sarov criticality accident using animated dosimetry techniques.
- A metamaterial absorber for the terahertz regime: design, fabrication and characterization.
- A neural network-based method for spectral distortion correction in photon counting x-ray CT.
- A new role for phytochromes in temperature-dependent germination.
- A preliminary study of the role of modulated electron beams in intensity modulated radiotherapy, using automated beam orientation and modality selection.
- A technique of intensity-modulated radiosurgery (IMRS) for spinal tumors.
- A vectorized Monte Carlo code for modeling photon transport in SPECT.
- Accelerator-based neutron brachytherapy.
- An analytic model of pinhole aperture penetration for 3D pinhole SPECT image reconstruction.
- An evaluation of the relationship between the quality of prophylactic cranial radiotherapy in childhood acute leukemia and institutional experience: a Quality Assurance Review Center-Pediatric Oncology Group study.
- An exposure indicator for digital radiography: AAPM Task Group 116 (executive summary).
- An in-house protocol for improved flood field calibration of TrueBeam FFF cine imaging.
- Analysis of image quality for real-time target tracking using simultaneous kV-MV imaging.
- Analytic determination of the pinhole collimator's point-spread function and RMS resolution with penetration.
- Anomalous bending effect in photonic crystal fibers.
- Assessment of individual organ doses in a realistic human phantom from neutron and gamma stimulated spectroscopy of the breast and liver.
- Beyond counting photons: trials and trends in vertebrate visual transduction.
- Broadband optical antireflection enhancement by integrating antireflective nanoislands with silicon nanoconical-frustum arrays.
- Comparing in vivo pump-probe and multiphoton fluorescence microscopy of melanoma and pigmented lesions.
- Comparison of characteristics of photon and electron beams generated by Philips/Elekta and Varian linear accelerators.
- Comparison of the IAEA TRS-398 and AAPM TG-51 absorbed dose to water protocols in the dosimetry of high-energy photon and electron beams.
- Complementary coded apertures for 4-dimensional x-ray coherent scatter imaging.
- Conformal radiation treatment of prostate cancer using inversely-planned intensity-modulated photon beams produced with dynamic multileaf collimation.
- Diode-based transmission detector for IMRT delivery monitoring: a validation study.
- Diode-based transmission detector for IMRT delivery monitoring: a validation study.
- Disentangling the visual cues used by a jumping spider to locate its microhabitat.
- Dispersion multiplexing with broadband filtering for miniature spectrometers.
- Dual-energy contrast-enhanced breast tomosynthesis: optimization of beam quality for dose and image quality.
- Early photon tomography allows fluorescence detection of lung carcinomas and disease progression in mice in vivo.
- Endoscopically compatible near-infrared photon migration probe.
- Enhanced quantum efficiency of the visible light photon counter in the ultraviolet wavelengths.
- Establishing the feasibility of the dosimetric compliance criteria of RTOG 1308: phase III randomized trial comparing overall survival after photon versus proton radiochemotherapy for inoperable stage II-IIIB NSCLC.
- Evaluation of the EDR-2 film for relative dosimetry of high-energy photon and electron beams.
- Executive summary of AAPM Report Task Group 113: Guidance for the physics aspects of clinical trials.
- Experience with moving visual stimuli drives the early development of cortical direction selectivity.
- Femtosecond phase-coherent two-dimensional spectroscopy.
- Femtosecond pulse train shaping improves two-photon excited fluorescence measurements.
- Focal cystic high-attenuation lesions: characterization in renal phantom by using photon-counting spectral CT--improved differentiation of lesion composition.
- Gadolinium-conjugated gold nanoshells for multimodal diagnostic imaging and photothermal cancer therapy.
- Generalized dual-energy-window scatter compensation in spatially varying media for SPECT.
- Hybrid spectral CT reconstruction.
- Ice as a water-equivalent solid medium for brachytherapy dosimetric measurements.
- Implementation of an accelerated iterative algorithm for cone-beam SPECT.
- Improved Bayesian image estimation for digital chest radiography.
- Incorporation of functional imaging data in the evaluation of dose distributions using the generalized concept of equivalent uniform dose.
- Input/output characteristics of a matrix ion-chamber electronic portal imaging device.
- Invited Review Article: Pump-probe microscopy.
- Is proton beam therapy better than standard radiation therapy? A paucity of practicality puts photons ahead of protons.
- Mechanisms regulating variability of the single photon responses of mammalian rod photoreceptors.
- Microdosimetric and Biological Effects of Photon Irradiation at Different Energies in Bone Marrow.
- Multiple-particle tracking and two-point microrheology in cells.
- Neutron-photon treatment: modern day Pyrrhic victory? Regarding Haraf et al. IJROBP 33(1): 3-14; 1995.
- New technologies in radiation therapy for pediatric brain tumors: the rationale for proton radiation therapy.
- Number and orientations of beams in intensity-modulated radiation treatments.
- On the feasibility of polyurethane based 3D dosimeters with optical CT for dosimetric verification of low energy photon brachytherapy seeds.
- One- and two-photon absorption of highly conjugated multiporphyrin systems in the two-photon Soret transition region.
- Photon migration through fetal head in utero using continuous wave, near infrared spectroscopy: clinical and experimental model studies.
- Photon migration through fetal head in utero using continuous wave, near-infrared spectroscopy: development and evaluation of experimental and numerical models.
- Plasmonic Luneburg and Eaton lenses.
- Practical aspects of in situ 16O (gamma,n) 15O activation using a conventional medical accelerator for the purpose of perfusion imaging.
- Predicting radiotherapy-induced cardiac perfusion defects.
- Preoperative chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced gastric cancer.
- Protocols for the dosimetry of high-energy photon and electron beams: a comparison of the IAEA TRS-398 and previous international codes of practice. International Atomic Energy Agency.
- Quantum computing: chemistry from photons.
- Rapid nanoimprinting of silk fibroin films for biophotonic applications.
- Realistic reference adult and paediatric phantom series for internal and external dosimetry.
- Search for heavy long-lived particles that decay to photons at CDF II.
- Sensitivity of a mixed field dosimetry algorithm to uncertainties in thermoluminescent element readings.
- Simultaneous self-phase modulation and two-photon absorption measurement by a spectral homodyne Z-scan method.
- Stabilization of continuum generation from normally dispersive nonlinear optical fibers for a tunable broad bandwidth source for optical coherence tomography.
- Stem cell differentiation indicated by noninvasive photonic characterization and fractal analysis of subcellular architecture.
- Supersensitive Ras activation in dendrites and spines revealed by two-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging.
- Technical Note: On maximizing Cherenkov emissions from medical linear accelerators.
- The effect of ambient pressure on well chamber response: Monte Carlo calculated results for the HDR 1000 plus.
- The effect of gamma ray penetration on angle-dependent sensitivity for pinhole collimation in nuclear medicine.
- The other function of DNA photolyase: stimulation of excision repair of chemical damage to DNA.
- Three-dimensional micropatterning of bioactive hydrogels via two-photon laser scanning photolithography for guided 3D cell migration.
- Two-dimensional fluorescence intensity distribution analysis: theory and applications.
- Two-photon absorption properties of proquinoidal D-A-D and A-D-A quadrupolar chromophores.
- Two-photon molecular excitation imaging of Ca2+ transients in Langendorff-perfused mouse hearts.
- Visualizing reaction pathways in photoactive yellow protein from nanoseconds to seconds.
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Keywords of People
- Craciunescu, Oana, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology
- Field, Greg D., Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering
- Gall, Ken, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Gehm, Michael E., Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Uronis, Hope Elizabeth, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Medical Oncology
- Wax, Adam P., Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering