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Publications (14)

physics.med-ph2025

Cystic Lung Phantom to Validate Clinical CT Protocols

Shefra Shah, Farah Hussaini, Dumitru Mazilu +2

In CT-based evaluation of the extent of cystic changes in the lungs of patients with cystic lung diseases, such as Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), there is a lack of a lung phantom…

physics.ins-det2016

Broadband Neutron Interferometer

Dmitry A. Pushin, Dusan Sarenac, Dan Hussey +10

We demonstrate a two phase-grating, multi-beam neutron interferometer by using a modified Ronchi setup in a far-field regime. The functionality of the interferometer is based on th…

physics.ins-det2016

Demonstration of a white beam far-field neutron interferometer for spatially resolved small angle neutron scattering

Daniel S. Hussey, Houxun Miao, Guangcui Yuan +6

We provide the first demonstration that a neutron far-field interferometer can be employed to measure the microstructure of a sample. The interferometer is based on the moiré patt…

physics.med-ph2014

Spherical-Wave Far-Field Interferometer for Hard X-Ray Phase Contrast Imaging

Houxun Miao, Andrew A. Gomella, Katherine J. Harmon +5

Low dose, high contrast x-ray imaging is of general interest in medical diagnostic applications. X-ray Mach-Zehnder interferometers using collimated synchrotron beams demonstrate t…

cs.LG2026

DIA-CLIP: a universal representation learning framework for zero-shot DIA proteomics

Yucheng Liao, Han Wen, Weinan E +1

Data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry (DIA-MS) has established itself as a cornerstone of proteomic profiling and large-scale systems biology, offering unparalleled depth…

physics.acc-ph2026

Multi-color XFEL pulses with variable color separation and time delay for multi-frame diffraction imaging

Xiaodan Liu, Hanxiang Yang, Bingyang Yan +8

X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) of high brightness have opened new opportunities for exploring ultrafast dynamical processes in matter, enabling imaging and movies of single mol…

physics.med-ph2020

TSA-inspired micro tomosythesis scanner for rapid scouting of histopathology samples

David T. Nguyen, Thomas C. Larsen, Muyang Wang +13

In pathology protocols, each tissue block can generate a large number of sections making it impractical to analyze every section. X-ray microscopy that provides a rapid survey of i…

physics.med-ph2022

Online calibration of a linear micro tomosynthesis scanner

Piroz Bahar, David Nguyen, Muyang Wang +3

In a linear tomosynthesis scanner designed for imaging histologic samples of several centimeter size at 10 micrometer resolution, the mechanical instability of the scanning stage (…

q-bio.OT2025

Strategic priorities for transformative progress in advancing biology with proteomics and artificial intelligence

Yingying Sun, Jun A, Zhiwei Liu +59

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming scientific research, including proteomics. Advances in mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics data quality, diversity, and scale, comb…

physics.plasm-ph2026

A Particle-in-Cell Simulation Framework for Thomson Scattering Analysis in Inertial Confinement Fusion

Ziang Zhu, Yifan Liu, Jun Li +11

In inertial confinement fusion (ICF), Thomson scattering (TS) is a widely used diagnostic technique for probing plasma conditions. We present a first-principles numerical approach…

physics.med-ph2022

Online geometric calibration of a hybrid CT system for ultrahigh-resolution imaging

Dakota H. King, Eric E. Bennett, Dumitru Mazilu +3

A hybrid imaging system consisting of a standard CT scanner and a low-profile photon-counting detector insert in contact with the patient's body has been used to produce ultrahigh-…

physics.plasm-ph2019

On numerical errors to the fields surrounding a relativistically moving particle in PIC codes

Xinlu Xu, Fei Li, Frank S. Tsung +7

The particle-in-cell (PIC) method is widely used to model the self-consistent interaction between discrete particles and electromagnetic fields. It has been successfully applied to…

physics.med-ph2013

Motionless Phase Stepping in X-Ray Phase Contrast Imaging with a Compact Source

Houxun Miao, Lei Chen, Eric E. Bennett +6

X-ray phase contrast imaging offers a way to visualize the internal structures of an object without the need to deposit any radiation, and thereby alleviate the main concern in x-r…

cs.LG2025

pUniFind: a unified large pre-trained deep learning model pushing the limit of mass spectra interpretation

Jiale Zhao, Pengzhi Mao, Kaifei Wang +12

Deep learning has advanced mass spectrometry data interpretation, yet most models remain feature extractors rather than unified scoring frameworks. We present pUniFind, the first l…