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 …

Introduction to neutron stimulated emission computed tomography

CE Floyd, JE Bender, AC Sharma… - Physics in Medicine …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Neutron stimulated emission computed tomography (NSECT) is presented as a new
technique for in vivo tomographic spectroscopic imaging. A full implementation of NSECT is …

Neutron stimulated emission computed tomography: Background corrections

CE Floyd Jr, AC Sharma, JE Bender, AJ Kapadia… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2007 - Elsevier
Neutron stimulated emission computed tomography (NSECT) is an imaging technique that
provides an in-vivo tomographic spectroscopic image of the distribution of elements in a …

An attenuation correction technique to correct for neutron and gamma attenuation in the reconstructed image of a neutron stimulated emission computed tomography …

AJ Kapadia, CE Floyd Jr - Medical Imaging 2005: Physics of …, 2005 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Neutron spectroscopy is being developed as a tomographic tool to measure trace element
concentration in the body at molecular levels. We are developing a neutron stimulated …

The effect of detector resolution for quantitative analysis of neutron stimulated emission computed tomography

JE Bender, CE Floyd, BP Harrawood… - … 2006: Physics of …, 2006 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Previous research has shown benign and cancerous tissues to have different chemical
make-ups. To measure the elemental concentration of biological samples noninvasively, we …

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 …

Neutron stimulated emission computed tomography: A new technique for spectroscopic medical imaging

AJ Kapadia - Neutron Imaging and Applications: A Reference for the …, 2009 - Springer
Neutron stimulated emission computed tomography (NSECT) is being developed as a new
medical-imaging technique to quantify spatial distributions of elements in a sample through …

Breast cancer diagnosis using neutron stimulated emission computed tomography: dose and count requirements

CE Floyd Jr, JE Bender, B Harrawood… - … 2006: Physics of …, 2006 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Neutron Stimulated Emission Computed Tomography (NSECT) was evaluated as a potential
technique for breast cancer diagnosis. NSECT can form a 3D tomographic image with an …

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 …

Assessment of individual organ doses in a realistic human phantom from neutron and gamma stimulated spectroscopy of the breast and liver

MD Belley, WP Segars, AJ Kapadia - Medical Physics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Understanding the radiation dose to a patient is essential when considering the
use of an ionizing diagnostic imaging test for clinical diagnosis and screening. Using Monte …