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20172023
most citedFraction-variant beam orientation optimization for non-coplanar IMRT

30 citations · 62 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

An Efficient and Robust Method for Chest X-Ray Rib Suppression that Improves Pulmonary Abnormality Diagnosis

Di Xu, Qifan Xu, Kevin Nhieu +2

Suppression of thoracic bone shadows on chest X-rays (CXRs) has been indicated to improve the diagnosis of pulmonary disease. Previous approaches can be categorized as unsupervised…

physics.med-ph2022★ 8 cited

Transformative Technology for FLASH Radiation Therapy: A Snowmass 2021 White Paper

Salime Boucher, Eric Esarey, Cameron Geddes +16

Conventional cancer therapies include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and, more recently, immunotherapy. These modalities are often combined to improve the therapeutic in…

eess.IV2022

To what extent can Plug-and-Play methods outperform neural networks alone in low-dose CT reconstruction

Qifan Xu, Qihui Lyu, Dan Ruan +1

The Plug-and-Play (PnP) framework was recently introduced for low-dose CT reconstruction to leverage the interpretability and the flexibility of model-based methods to incorporate…

physics.med-ph2019★ 1 cited

DeepMCDose: A Deep Learning Method for Efficient Monte Carlo Beamlet Dose Calculation by Predictive Denoising in MR-Guided Radiotherapy

Ryan Neph, Yangsibo Huang, Youming Yang +1

The next great leap toward improving treatment of cancer with radiation will require the combined use of online adaptive and magnetic resonance guided radiation therapy techniques…

cs.CV2019★ 10 cited

Fully Automated Pancreas Segmentation with Two-stage 3D Convolutional Neural Networks

Ningning Zhao, Nuo Tong, Dan Ruan +1

Due to the fact that pancreas is an abdominal organ with very large variations in shape and size, automatic and accurate pancreas segmentation can be challenging for medical image…

physics.med-ph2017★ 30 cited

Fraction-variant beam orientation optimization for non-coplanar IMRT

Daniel O'Connor, Dan Nguyen, Dan Ruan +2

Conventional beam orientation optimization (BOO) algorithms for IMRT assume that the same set of beam angles is used for all treatment fractions. In this paper we present a BOO for…