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Journal article Phys Med · August 2025 PURPOSE: To develop and characterize individualized dose and quality measures at organ level compared to their generic counterparts across a clinical CT dataset. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study included 9801 chest-abdomen-pelvis and abdomen-pelvis CT exam ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Making CT Dose Monitoring Meaningful: Augmenting Dose with Imaging Quality.

Journal article Tomography · April 7, 2023 Due to the concerns about radiation dose associated with medical imaging, radiation dose monitoring systems (RDMSs) are now utilized by many radiology providers to collect, process, analyze, and manage radiation dose-related information. Currently, most co ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Key Performance Indicators for Quality Imaging Practice: Why, What, and How.

Journal article J Am Coll Radiol · January 2022 A common trend across health care organizations is the development of key performance indicators (KPIs) for characterizing quality, identifying areas in need of change, and quantifying the impact of change. This article outlines a list of KPIs that can be ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patient-based Performance Assessment for Pediatric Abdominal CT: An Automated Monitoring System Based on Lesion Detectability and Radiation Dose.

Journal article Acad Radiol · February 2021 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVE: To deploy an automated tool for evaluating pediatric body computed tomography (CT) performance utilizing metrics of radiation dose and image quality for the task of liver lesion detection. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This IRB approved r ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pixel response-based EPID dosimetry for patient specific QA.

Journal article Journal of applied clinical medical physics · January 2017 Increasing use of high dose rate, flattening filter free (FFF), and/or small-sized field beams presents a significant challenge to the medical physics community. In this work, we develop a strategy of using a high spatial resolution and high frame rate amo ... Full text Cite

Development of an accurate EPID-based output measurement and dosimetric verification tool for electron beam therapy.

Journal article Medical physics · July 2015 PurposeTo develop an efficient and robust tool for output measurement and absolute dose verification of electron beam therapy by using a high spatial-resolution and high frame-rate amorphous silicon flat panel electronic portal imaging device (EPI ... Full text Cite

VirtualDose: a software for reporting organ doses from CT for adult and pediatric patients.

Journal article Physics in medicine and biology · July 2015 Featured Publication This paper describes the development and testing of VirtualDose--a software for reporting organ doses for adult and pediatric patients who undergo x-ray computed tomography (CT) examinations. The software is based on a comprehensive database of organ doses ... Full text Cite

The profound effects of patient arm positioning on organ doses from CT procedures calculated using Monte Carlo simulations and deformable phantoms.

Journal article Radiation protection dosimetry · April 2015 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the organ dose differences caused by the arms-raised and arms-lowered postures for multidetector computed tomography procedures. Organ doses were calculated using computational phantoms and Monte Carlo simulations. ... Full text Cite

Independent calculation of monitor units for VMAT and SPORT.

Journal article Medical physics · February 2015 PurposeDose and monitor units (MUs) represent two important facets of a radiation therapy treatment. In current practice, verification of a treatment plan is commonly done in dose domain, in which a phantom measurement or forward dose calculation ... Full text Cite

A dose-reconstruction study of the 1997 Sarov criticality accident using animated dosimetry techniques.

Journal article Health physics · May 2014 Most computational human phantoms are static, representing a standing individual. There are, however, cases when these phantoms fail to represent accurately the detailed effects on dose that result from considering varying human posture and even whole sequ ... Full text Cite

SU-E-T-493: Accelerated Monte Carlo Methods for Photon Dosimetry Using a Dual-GPU System and CUDA.

Journal article Medical physics · June 2012 PurposeTo develop a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) based Monte Carlo (MC) code that accelerates dose calculations on a dual-GPU system.MethodsWe simulated a clinical case of prostate cancer treatment. A voxelized abdomen phantom derived f ... Full text Cite

Extension of RPI-adult male and female computational phantoms to obese patients and a Monte Carlo study of the effect on CT imaging dose.

Journal article Physics in medicine and biology · May 2012 Featured Publication Although it is known that obesity has a profound effect on x-ray computed tomography (CT) image quality and patient organ dose, quantitative data describing this relationship are not currently available. This study examines the effect of obesity on the cal ... Full text Cite

Monte Carlo calculation of imaging doses from diagnostic multidetector CT and kilovoltage cone-beam CT as part of prostate cancer treatment plans.

Journal article Medical physics · December 2010 PurposeTo calculate imaging doses to the rectum, bladder, and femoral heads as part of a prostate cancer treatment plans, assuming an image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) procedure involving either the multidetector CT (MDCT) or kilovoltage cone- ... Full text Cite

Training software using virtual-reality technology and pre-calculated effective dose data.

Journal article Health physics · May 2009 This paper describes the development of a software package, called VR Dose Simulator, which aims to provide interactive radiation safety and ALARA training to radiation workers using virtual-reality (VR) simulations. Combined with a pre-calculated effectiv ... Full text Cite

Neutronics analysis for the test blanket modules proposed for EAST and ITER

Journal article Nuclear Fusion · August 1, 2007 The dual-functional lithium lead-test blanket module (DFLL-TBM) system, which is designated to demonstrate the integrated technologies of both the He single coolant (SLL) blanket and the He-LiPb dual coolant (DLL) blanket, is proposed for testing in ITER t ... Full text Cite

Sorption of 243Am(III) to multiwall carbon nanotubes.

Journal article Environmental science & technology · April 2005 Carbon nanotubes have attracted great interest in multidisciplinary study since their discovery. Herein, radionuclide 243Am(III) sorption to uncapped multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) was carried out at 20+/-2 degrees C in 0.01 and 0.1 M NaClO4 solutions ... Full text Cite