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Special issues

• Recent advances in Monte Carlo techniques for radiation therapy

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• Fast Track Communications
• Papers
• Comments and Replies
• Notes

Special issue: Recent advances in Monte Carlo techniques for radiation therapy

Monte Carlo simulation on a gold nanoparticle irradiated by electron beams
James C L Chow, Michael Leung and David A Jaffray

An experimental feasibility study on the use of scattering foil free beams for modulated electron radiotherapy
Tanner Connell, Andrew Alexander, Michael Evans and Jan Seuntjens

A theoretical re-examination of Spencer-Attix cavity theory
Hugo Bouchard

ALGEBRA: heterogeneous dosimetry algorithm based on GEANT4 for brachytherapy
Hossein Afsharpour, Guillaume Landry, Michel D D'Amours, Shirin A Enger, Brigitte Reniers, Emily Poon, Frank Verhaegen and Luc Beaulieu

Range uncertainties in proton therapy and the role of Monte Carlo simulations
Harald Paganetti

Monte Carlo verification of gel dosimetry measurements for stereotactic radiotherapy
Tanya Kairn, Michael L Taylor, S B Crowe, Leon Dunn, Rick D Franich, J Kenny, R T Knight and Jamie V Trapp

Efficient voxel navigation for proton therapy dose calculation in TOPAS and Geant4
Jan Schuemann, Harald Paganetti, Jungwook Shin, Bruce A Faddegon and Joseph Perl

Analytical modeling of regional radiotherapy dose response of lung
Sangkyu Lee, Gabriela Stroian, Neil Kopek, Mahmood Bahhar, Jan Seuntjens and Naqa Issam El

Comparison of electron scattering algorithms in Geant4
Daren Sawkey, Magdalena Constantin and Michelle Svatos

Fast Track Communications

Quantifying ITV instabilities arising from 4DCT: A simulation study using patient data
James Sara St, Pankaj Mishra, Fred Hacker, Ross I Berbeco and John Lewis
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Papers

Improving arrival time identification in transient elastography
Jens Klein, Joyce McLaughlin and Daniel Renzi
Provisionally scheduled for January 2012

Eigenvalue decomposition of full-spectrum x-ray computed tomography
Brian Gonzales and David S Lalush
Provisionally scheduled for January 2012

In vivo liver tracking with a high volume rate 4D ultrasound scanner and a 2D matrix array probe
Muyinatu Lediju Bell, Brett Byram, Emma J Harris, Philip M Evans and Jeffery C Bamber
Provisionally scheduled for January 2012

Towards inherently distortion-free MR images for image guided radiotherapy on an MRI-accelerator
Sjoerd P M Crijns, Chris J G Bakker, Peter Seevinck, Leeuw H De, Jan J W Lagendijk and Bas W Raaymakers
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

The effect of stochastic fluctuation in radiation dose-rate on cell survival following fractionated radiation therapy
Subhadip Paul and Prasun K Roy
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

A liquid fluorescence dosimeter for proton dosimetry
Roger Nadrowitz, Adolf Coray, Terence Boehringer, Juergen Dunst and Dirk Rades
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

An in-depth Monte Carlo study of lateral electron disequilibrium for small fields in ultra-low density lung: Implications for modern radiation therapy
Brandon M S Disher, George Hajdok, Stewart Gaede and Jerry J Battista
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Internal photon and electron dosimetry of the newborn patient - a hybrid computational phantom study
Michael Wayson, Choonsik Lee, George Sgouros, Ted Treves, Eric C Frey and Wesley E Bolch
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Learning image context for segmentation of prostate in CT-Guided radiotherapy
Wei Li, Shu Liao, Qianjin Feng, Wufan Chen and Dinggang Shen
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Relative response of alanine dosemeters for high-energy electrons determined using a Fricke primary standard
Sándor Vörös, Mathias Anton and Benedicte Boillat
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Loss tangent and complex modulus estimated by acoustic radiation force creep and shear wave dispersion
Carolina Amador, Matthew W Urban, Shigao Chen and James F Greenleaf
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Analytic regularization for landmark-based image registration
Nadya Shusharina and Gregory C Sharp
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Late rectal bleeding after 3D-CRT in prostate cancer: development of a neural-network-based predictive model
Stefano T Tomatis, T Rancati, C Fiorino, V Vavassori, G Fellin, E Cagna, F A Mauro, G Girelli, A Monti, M Baccolini, G Naldi, C Bianchi, L Menegotti, M Pasquino, M Stasi and R Valdagni
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

On the feasibility of automatic detection of range deviations from in-beam PET data
Stephan Helmbrecht, Alina Santiago, Wolfgang Enghardt, Peter Kuess and Fine Fiedler
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Joint L¹ and total variation regularization for fluorescence molecular tomography
Joyita Dutta, Sangtae Ahn, Changqing Li, Simon R Cherry and Richard M Leahy
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Theoretical dosimetry estimations for radioisotopes produced by proton induced reactions on natural and enriched molybdenum targets
Xinchi Hou, Anna Celler, Joshua Grimes, Francois Benard and Thomas J Ruth
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Objective evaluation of the correction by non-rigid registration of abdominal organ motion in low-dose 4D dynamic contrast-enhanced CT
Jim Piper, Yoshihiro Ikeda, Yasuko Fujisawa, Yoshiharu Ohno, Takeshi Yoshikawa, Alison O'Neil and Ian Pool
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Improvement of SOBP flatness for a carbon-ion beam by use of a ridge filter with a ripple filter
Yousuke Hara, Yoshihisa Takada, Kenji Hotta, Ryohei Tansho, Tetsuya Nihei, Yojiro Suzuki, Kosuke Nagafuchi, Ryuichi Kawai, Masaki Tanabe, Shohei Mizutani, Takeshi Himukai and Naruhiro Matsufuji
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Automatic computer aided detection of prostate cancer based on multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Image analysis
Pieter C Vos, J O Barentsz, Nico Karssemeijer and Henkjan Huisman
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Spatial correspondence of 4D CT ventilation and SPECT pulmonary perfusion defects in patients with malignant airway stenosis
Richard Castillo, Edward Castillo, Matthew McCurdy, Daniel R Gomez, Alec M Block, Derek Bergsma and Thomas M Guerrero
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Simulations of a micro-PET system based on liquid Xenon
Alice Miceli, J Glister, Andriy Andreyev, Douglas Bryman, L Kurchaninov, P Lu, A Muennich, F Retiere and Vesna Sossi
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Iterative 4D cardiac micro-CT image reconstruction using an adaptive spatio-temporal sparsity prior
Ludwig Ritschl, Stefan Sawall, Michael Knaup, Andreas Hess and Marc Kachelriess
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Fast online Monte-Carlo based IMRT planning for the MRI linear accelerator
G H Bol, Sami Hissoiny, Jan J W Lagendijk and Bas W Raaymakers
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Modelling and simulation of the influence of acute and chronic hypoxia on ¹⁸F]Fluoromisonidazole PET imaging
David Moennich, Esther G C Troost, Johannes Kaanders, Wim J G Oyen, Markus Alber and Daniela Thorwarth
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Monte Carlo calculations of positron emitter yields in proton radiotherapy
Enrica Seravalli, Charlotte Robert, Julia Bauer, Frederic Stichelbaut, Christopher Kurz, Julien Smeets, Ngoc Ty C Van, Dennis R Schaart, Irene Buvat, Katia Parodi and Frank Verhaegen
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Children and adults exposed to low frequency magnetic fields at the ICNIRP reference levels: theoretical assessment of the induced electric fields
Jurriaan F Bakker, Maarten M Paulides, Esra Neufeld, Andreas Christ, Xi Lin Chen, Niels Kuster and Rhoon Gerard van
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Optimization of x-ray spectra in digital mammography through Monte Carlo simulations
Diego Merigue Cunha, Alessandra Tomal and M E Poletti
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Application of a whole-body pharmacokinetic model for targeted radionuclide therapy to NM404 and FLT
Joseph Grudzinski, John M Floberg, Sarah Mudd, Justin J Jeffery, Eric Peterson, Alice Nomura, Ronald Burnette, Wolfgang A Tome, Jamey Weichert and Robert Jeraj
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

The lower bound on the timing resolution of scintillation detectors
Stefan Seifert, Dam Herman T van and Dennis R Schaart
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Optimized efficient liver T_1ρ mapping using limited spin lock times
Jing Yuan, Feng Zhao, James Griffith, Queenie Chan and Yi Xiang Wang
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Beam quality corrections for parallel-plate ion chambers in electron reference dosimetry
Klemens Zink and Joerg Wulff
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Quantitative CT: Technique dependency of volume estimation for pulmonary nodules
Baiyu Chen, Huiman Barnhart, Samuel R Richard, James G Colsher, Maxwell Amurao and Ehsan Samei
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

The mean energy deposit during the impact of charged particles on liquid water
Mario A Bernal
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Internal scatter, the unavoidable major component of the peripheral dose in photon-beam radiotherapy
Ndimofor Chofor, Dietrich Harder, K C Willborn and Bjoern Poppe
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Multiple scattering effects in Doppler optical coherence tomography of flowing blood
Jeroen Kalkman, Alexander V Bykov, Geert J Streekstra and Leeuwen Ton G van
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Comparison of basis functions for 3D PET reconstruction using a Monte-Carlo system matrix
Jorge Cabello and Magdalena Rafecas
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Respiratory liver motion estimation and its effect on scanned proton beam therapy
Ye Zhang, Dirk Boye, Christine Tanner, Anthony J Lomax, Antje Christin Knopf and Ye Zhang
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Double input compartmental modelling and spectral analysis for the quantification of Positron Emission Tomography data in oncology

Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Null-space function estimation for the interior problem
Gengsheng L Zeng and Grant T Gullberg
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Dedicated phantom materials for spectral radiography and CT
Polad M Shikhaliev
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Subspace Electrode Selection methodology for the reduction of the propagation of uncertain conductivity values in EEG dipole localization: a simulation study using a patient-specific head model
Guillaume Crevecoeur, V M Restrepo, Hans Hallez and S Staelens
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Mixed-norm estimates for the M/EEG inverse problem using accelerated gradient methods
Alexandre Gramfort, Matthieu Kowalski and Matti S Hamalainen
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Statistical image reconstruction from limited projection data with intensity priors
Essam A Rashed and Hiroyuki Kudo
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Simulation of HyperSPECT: a high resolution small animal system with in-line x-ray optics
Sandra Tibbelin, Peter Nillius and Mats Danielsson
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

A heterogeneous human tissue mimicking phantom for RF heating and MRI thermal monitoring verification
Yu Yuan, Cory Wyatt, Paolo F Maccarini, Paul R Stauffer, Oana Craciunescu, James MacFall, Mark W Dewhirst and Shiva K Das
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Evaluation of chamber response function influence on IMRT verification using 2D commercial detector arrays.
Gago-Arias A Ms, Luis Brualla-Gonzalez, D M Gonzalez-Castano, F Gomez, García M Sanchez, Vega V Luna, Sueiro J Mosquera and J Pardo-Montero
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Photon counting spectral CT: Improved material decomposition with K-edge filtered x-rays
Polad M Shikhaliev
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Characterization of the effects of the FineView algorithm for full field digital mammography
H Urbanczyk, E McDonagh, Nick W Marshall and I A Castellano
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Quantum mechanical predictions of DNA and RNA ionization by energetic proton beams
M E Galassi, Christophe Champion, Philippe F Weck, Roberto D Rivarola, Omar Ariel Fojon and Jocelyn Hanssen
Provisionally scheduled for March 2012

Comments and Replies

Comment on 'Plastic scintillation dosimetry: comparison of three solutions for the Cerenkov challenge'
Luc Beaulieu, A Sam Beddar and Louis Archambault
Provisionally scheduled for May 2012

Notes

Visualization of microvasculature by X-ray in-line phase contrast imaging in the rat spinal cord
Jian-Zhong Hu, Tian-Ding Wu, Lei Zeng, Hui-Qiang Liu, You He, Guo-Hao Du and Hongbin Lu
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012

Activation of signaling pathways following localized delivery of systemically-administered neurotrophic factors across the blood-brain barrier using focused ultrasound and microbubbles
Babak Baseri, James J Choi, Thomas Deffieux, Gesthimani Samiotaki, Yao-Sheng Tung, Scott Small, Barclay Morrison and Elisa Konofagou
Provisionally scheduled for February 2012