Experimental detection of iron overload in liver through neutron stimulated emission spectroscopy

AJ Kapadia, GD Tourassi, AC Sharma… - Physics in Medicine …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Iron overload disorders have been the focus of several quantification studies involving non-
invasive imaging modalities. Neutron spectroscopic techniques have demonstrated great …

Neutron-stimulated emission computed tomography of a multi-element phantom

CE Floyd, AJ Kapadia, JE Bender… - Physics in Medicine …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes the implementation of neutron-stimulated emission computed
tomography (NSECT) for non-invasive imaging and reconstruction of a multi-element …

GEANT4 simulation of NSECT for detection of iron overload in the liver

AJ Kapadia, BP Harrawood… - Medical Imaging 2008 …, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Neutron stimulated emission computed tomography (NSECT) is being proposed as a non-
invasive technique to diagnose iron overload in humans. It uses inelastic scatter interactions …

Validation of a GEANT4 simulation of neutron stimulated emission computed tomography

AJ Kapadia, BP Harrawood… - Medical Imaging 2008 …, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Neutron stimulated emission computed tomography (NSECT) is being proposed as a non-
invasive technique to detect concentrations of elements in the body for diagnosis of liver iron …

Detection of iron overload with the ORNL Spallation Neutron Source: An MCNPX simulation study

AJ Kapadia, FX Gallmeier, EB Iverson… - 2008 IEEE Nuclear …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In previous work we have demonstrated the use of neutrons to detect iron overload in the
liver. We are developing a non-invasive technique to measure liver iron concentration in the …