X-ray-computed tomography contrast agents

H Lusic, MW Grinstaff - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
X-ray-computed tomography (CT) is a well-established tissueimaging technique employed
in a variety of research and clinical settings. 1 Specifically, CT is a noninvasive clinical …

An introduction to deep learning in medical physics: advantages, potential, and challenges

C Shen, D Nguyen, Z Zhou, SB Jiang… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
As one of the most popular approaches in artificial intelligence, deep learning (DL) has
attracted a lot of attention in the medical physics field over the past few years. The goals of …

Competitive performance of a modularized deep neural network compared to commercial algorithms for low-dose CT image reconstruction

H Shan, A Padole, F Homayounieh, U Kruger… - Nature Machine …, 2019 - nature.com
Commercial iterative reconstruction techniques help to reduce the radiation dose of
computed tomography (CT), but altered image appearance and artefacts can limit their …

Comparing Unet training with three different datasets to correct CBCT images for prostate radiotherapy dose calculations

G Landry, D Hansen, F Kamp, M Li… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Image intensity correction is crucial to enable cone beam computed tomography (CBCT)
based radiotherapy dose calculations. This study evaluated three different deep learning …

Dual-and multi-energy CT for particle stopping-power estimation: current state, challenges and potential

M Yang, P Wohlfahrt, C Shen… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Range uncertainty has been a key factor preventing particle radiotherapy from reaching its
full physical potential. One of the main contributing sources is the uncertainty in estimating …

MV CBCT-based synthetic CT generation using a deep learning method for rectal cancer adaptive radiotherapy

J Zhao, Z Chen, J Wang, F Xia, J Peng, Y Hu… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Due to image quality limitations, online Megavoltage cone beam CT (MV CBCT), which
represents real online patient anatomy, cannot be used to perform adaptive radiotherapy …

A streak artifact reduction algorithm in sparse‐view CT using a self‐supervised neural representation

B Kim, H Shim, J Baek - Medical physics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Sparse‐view computed tomography (CT) has been attracting attention for its
reduced radiation dose and scanning time. However, analytical image reconstruction …

Image-domain material decomposition for spectral CT using a generalized dictionary learning

W Wu, P Chen, S Wang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The spectral computed tomography (CT) has huge advantages by providing accurate
material information. Unfortunately, due to the instability or overdetermination of the material …

Convolutional neural network–based metal and streak artifacts reduction in dental CT images with sparse‐view sampling scheme

S Kim, J Ahn, B Kim, C Kim, J Baek - Medical physics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Sparse‐view sampling has attracted attention for reducing the scan time and
radiation dose of dental cone‐beam computed tomography (CBCT). Recently, various deep …

Performance evaluation of digital breast tomosynthesis systems: comparison of current virtual clinical trial methods

NW Marshall, H Bosmans - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Virtual clinical trials (VCT) have been developed by a number of groups to study breast
imaging applications, with the focus on digital breast tomosynthesis imaging. In this review …