A Feasibility Study for Microwave Breast Cancer Detection Using Contrast-Agent-Loaded Bacterial Microbots by Yifan Chen, Panagiotis Kosmas, Sylvain Martel

“…Finally, we use an anatomically realistic numerical breast phantom as a platform to demonstrate the feasibility of this tumor diagnostic method.…”
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IMAGE OF RUSSIA AND RUSSIANS IN POLISH HISTORICAL FILMS (ON MATERIALS OF EXPERT INTERVIEWS) by S. I. Belov

“…The films of the period before 1939 and the post-Soviet era are related not only to the content, but also the technological side: in both cases, the creators used strategies to create images of someone else’s and phantom enemies, demonization and dehumanization. …”
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Anthropometric profile of the brazilian male judo team: cross-sectional study by André Luíz Lopes, Gustavo dos Santos Ribeiro, Bruno Costa Teixeira, Randhall Bruce Carteri, Paulo Cavalcante Muzy, André Pontes-Silva

“…Data are presented as median, minimum and maximum values (descriptive variables) or phantom z-scores (proportionality). Results: The data indicate a very large effect size for the bone-muscle index (d = 2.72) and the mesomorphic phenotype (d = 1.33) in judokas and students. …”
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From an idea to its realization: A new training centre at the institute for emergency medicine Belgrade by Anđelić Slađana, Čolaković Goran, Pavlović Aleksandar

“…This vision requires a new spatial and technical structure with modern phantom mannequins (rescue dummies), medical devices, and equipment. …”
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Annexin V–CLIO: A Nanoparticle for Detecting Apoptosis by MRI by Eyk A. Schellenberger, Alexei Bogdanov, Dagmar Högemann, Jonathan Tait, Ralph Weissleder, Lee Josephson

“…The result was an almost complete removal of the apoptotic cells (>99%). In a phantom MRI experiment, untreated control cells (12% apoptotic cells, 88% healthy cells) and camptothecin-treated cells (65% apoptotic cells, 35% healthy cells) were incubated with either annexin V–CLIO (1.0, 0.5, and 0.1 μg Fe/mL) or with unlabeled CLIO. …”
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Towards examiner-independent reproducible abdominal ultrasound examinations by Baader Tobias, Nam Bach Thanh, Yavuz Sümeyra, Brand Lukas Klaus, Güler Beyda, Grupp Peter, Malek Nisar Peter, Hoffmann Tatjana, Pauluschke-Fröhlich Jan, Fröhlich Eckhart, Burgert Oliver

“…Evaluation of the system involved technical accuracy tests on a phantom and accuracy tests on human subjects. The results showed that the technical accuracy of the system met the required criteria, but the transducer positioning error in realistic scenarios was above the threshold. …”
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Polystyrene Microsphere Optical Properties by Kubelka–Munk and Diffusion Approximation with a Single Integrating Sphere System: A Comparative Study by Ali Shahin, Wesam Bachir, Moustafa Sayem El-Daher

“…Although absorption coefficient turned out to be much lower than scattering, constructing a realistic optical phantom requires taking into account absorption property of polystyrene. …”
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An Optimized Spline-Based Registration of a 3D CT to a Set of C-Arm Images by S. Jonic, P. Thévenaz, G. Zheng, L.-P. Nolte, M. Unser

“…We show the performance of our algorithm on a human spine phantom, where the true alignment is determined using a set of fiducial markers.…”
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Quarter-Millimeter-Resolution Molecular Mouse Imaging with U-SPECT by Oleksandra Ivashchenko, Frans van der Have, Jose L. Villena, Harald C. Groen, Ruud M. Ramakers, Harrie H. Weinans, Freek J. Beekman

“…Images were reconstructed using pixel-based ordered subset expectation maximization (OSEM). Various phantoms and mouse SPECT scans were acquired. The reconstructed spatial resolution (the smallest visible capillary diameter in a hot-rod resolution phantom) was 0.25 mm. …”
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Ketamine for the Treatment of Chronic Pain: A Comprehensive Review by Jacob E. Israel, Samantha St Pierre, Emily Ellis, Josephine S. Hanukaai, Nazir Noor, Giustino Varrassi, Markus Wells, Alan D. Kaye

“…Conditions highlighted in this review include neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), phantom limb pain (PLP), cancer pain, and post-thoracotomy pain syndrome. …”
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Estimating the Radiation Dose to the Fetus in Prophylactic Internal Iliac Artery Balloon Occlusion: Three Cases by Kentaro Kai, Tomohiro Hamada, Akitoshi Yuge, Hiro Kiyosue, Yoshihiro Nishida, Kaei Nasu, Hisashi Narahara

“…Fetal radiation dose measurements were conducted prior to each CS by using an anthropomorphic phantom. Based on the simulated value, we calculated the fetal radiation dose as the absorbed dose. …”
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Bone Mineral Density Prediction from CT Image: A Novel Approach using ANN by S. L. Resmi, V. Hashim, Jesna Mohammed, P. N. Dileep

“…The density value of the bone which is computed from the Hounsfield units of QCT scan image through phantom calibration is used as the target value for training the network. …”
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EBG Based Microstrip Patch Antenna for Brain Tumor Detection via Scattering Parameters in Microwave Imaging System by Reefat Inum, Md. Masud Rana, Kamrun Nahar Shushama, Md. Anwarul Quader

“…A monostatic radar-based confocal microwave imaging algorithm is applied to generate the image of tumor inside a six-layer human head phantom model. S-parameter signals obtained from circular EBG loaded patch antenna in different scanning modes are utilized in the imaging algorithm to effectively produce a high-resolution image which reliably indicates the presence of tumor inside human brain.…”
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Cerenkov Luminescence Tomography of Aminopeptidase N (APN/CD13) Expression in Mice Bearing HT1080 Tumors by Zhenhua Hu, Weidong Yang, Xiaowei Ma, Wenhui Ma, Xiaochao Qu, Jimin Liang, Jing Wang, Jie Tian

“…Na 131 I with various activities was placed at different depths in a tissue-mimicking phantom, and various porcine tissues and luminescent images were acquired. …”
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Monte Carlo modeling of temporal point spread functions and sensitivity functions for mesoscopic time-resolved fluorescence molecular tomography by S.I. Samarin, A.B. Konovalov, V.V. Vlasov, I.D. Solovyev, A.P. Savitsky, V.V. Tuchin

“…The proper operation of the code was verified through a comparison between fluorescence temporal point spread functions from test calculations and data from experiments where a phantom with a fluorophore was scanned with a three-channel probe in the mesoscopic reflectance regime. …”
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Comprehensive Analysis of Alpha-Parametric Set for the Calculation of Intersection Lengths of Radiological Ray Path in Siddon's Algorithm Used in 3D Image Reconstruction by Adem Polat

“…To prove our proposal, we performed lossy and lossless 3D image reconstruction (100×100×50) of a synthetic phantom. Using special functions that do not take into account the duplicate values and exclude them in the algorithm solved the stated problems (lossless reconstruction). …”
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Partial Volume Reduction by Interpolation with Reverse Diffusion by Olivier Salvado, Claudia M. Hillenbrand, David L. Wilson

“…On gray level, scanned text, MRI physical phantom, and brain images, restored images processed with the new method were visually much closer to high-resolution counterparts than those obtained with common interpolation methods.…”
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Quantitative Assessment of Photoneutron-induced Secondary Radiation Dose in Prostate Treatment Using an 18 MV Medical Linear Accelerator: A Monte Carlo Study by Mustapha Assalmi, Abdullah Alshreef, EL Yamani Diaf, Assia Arectout, Nicholas Ade, El Hassan El Berhdadi

“…Neutron characteristics, including penetration, cross-section interactions, Linear Energy Transfer (LET), and dose contributions, were analyzed using an adult male ICRP phantom. Prostate treatment scenarios involved 3D-CRT plans with 4-fields, 5-fields, and 7-fields. …”
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Multimodality Registration without a Dedicated Multimodality Scanner by Bradley J. Beattie, Gregor J. Förster, Ricardo Govantes, Carl H. Le, Valerie A. Longo, Pat B. Zanzonico, Luc Bidaut, Ronald G. Blasberg, Jason A. Koutcher

“…Soft tissue movement was predominantly the result of the filling (or emptying) of the urinary bladder and thus largely constrained to this region. Phantom studies estimate the registration errors for all registration types to be less than 0.5 mm. …”
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Mobile photon counting detector CT with multi material decomposition methods for neuroimaging of patients in intensive care unit by Su-Jin Park, Kwanhee Han, Junyoung Park, Jonghwan Min, Dufan Wu, Doil Kim, Kyutae Kang, Duhgoon Lee, Rajiv Gupta, Jinwook Jung

“…A certified multi-energy phantom was used to validate its performance with various x-ray exposure conditions and locations of contrast agent. …”
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