Prompt gamma-ray emission from biological tissues during proton irradiation: a preliminary study

JC Polf, S Peterson, G Ciangaru, M Gillin… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we present the results of a preliminary study of secondary'prompt'gamma-ray
emission produced by proton–nuclear interactions within tissue during proton radiotherapy …

Neutron stimulated emission computed tomography for diagnosis of breast cancer

AJ Kapadia, AC Sharma, GD Tourassi… - … on Nuclear Science, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neutron stimulated emission computed tomography (NSECT) is being developed as a non-
invasive spectroscopic imaging technique to determine element concentrations in the …

Dual-energy contrast-enhanced breast tomosynthesis: optimization of beam quality for dose and image quality

E Samei, RS Saunders - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Dual-energy contrast-enhanced breast tomosynthesis is a promising technique to obtain
three-dimensional functional information from the breast with high resolution and speed. To …

Determining serum zinc and magnesium levels in hemodialysis patients could be helpful for clinicians

F Ahmadipour, S Mahjoub, M Pouramir… - Indian Journal of Clinical …, 2017 - Springer
Trace element determination is requested rarely for critically ill patients in Iran, due to the
underestimation of the trace element determination by Iranian physicians. The aim was to …

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: a Monte Carlo simulation approach

AC Sharma, BP Harrawood, JE Bender… - Physics in Medicine …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
A Monte Carlo simulation has been developed for neutron stimulated emission computed
tomography (NSECT) using the GEANT4 toolkit. NSECT is a new approach to biomedical …

Simulations of breast cancer imaging using gamma-ray stimulated emission computed tomography

MN Lakshmanan, BP Harrawood… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Here, we present an innovative imaging technology for breast cancer using gamma-ray
stimulated spectroscopy based on the nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) technique. In …

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 …

Stop breast cancer now! Imagining imaging pathways toward search, destroy, cure, and watchful waiting of premetastasis breast cancer

R Gordon - Breast Cancer: A Lobar Disease, 2010 - Springer
Tibor Tot has given me an unusual opportunity via his request to summarize my work in
computed tomography (CT), which indeed since 1977 has been directed toward eliminating …

Material classification by analysis of prompt photon spectra induced by 14-MeV neutrons

A Barzilov, I Novikov - Physics Procedia, 2015 - Elsevier
Neutron based technologies are widely used in the field of bulk material analysis. These
methods employ characteristic prompt gamma rays induced by a neutron probe for …