Wearable Loop Sensors for Knee Flexion Monitoring: Dynamic Measurements on Human Subjects by Ian Anderson, Christopher Cosma, Yingzhe Zhang, Vigyanshu Mishra, Asimina Kiourti

“…Our previous studies reported a proof-of-concept on a cylindrical phantom limb, under static scenarios and with a rigid sensor. …”
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Adaptive treatment workflow and dosimetric evaluation of intracranial fractionated stereotactic radiosurgery on a low-field magnetic resonance-linear accelerator by Karen Chin Snyder, Salim M. Siddiqui, Parag Parikh, Kundan Thind

“…The optimization methodology was subsequently applied to simulate an online adaptive workflow on an MR phantom, incorporating target volumes from five previously treated patients that required offline adaptation. …”
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Electric Field Measurement of the Living Human Body for Biomedical Applications: Phase Measurement of the Electric Field Intensity by Ichiro Hieda, Ki Chang Nam

“…One of the technical issues suggested by the authors' previous studies was that the signal pattern acquired from measurement of a human body was essentially different from that acquired from a phantom. To trace the causes of this difference, the accuracy of the phase measurements was improved. …”
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Deformable Image Registration with Inclusion of Autodetected Homologous Tissue Features by Qingsong Zhu, Jia Gu, Yaoqin Xie

“…Several registration experiments using both digital phantom and clinical data demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the method. …”
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Development of a Multimodal Analgesia Protocol for Perioperative Acute Pain Management for Lower Limb Amputation by Roberta De Jong, Alexander J. Shysh

“…Perioperative pain management in these patients presents a particular challenge considering the multiple sources and pathways for acute and chronic pain that are involved, such as chronic ischemic limb pain, postoperative residual limb pain, coexisting musculoskeletal pain, phantom limb sensations, and chronic phantom limb pain. …”
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Adaptive Noise Reduction of Scintigrams with a Wavelet Transform by Koichi Ogawa, Masahiko Sakata, Yu Li

“…To evaluate the validity of our proposed method, phantom images and scintigrams were used. The results with the phantom images showed that our method was better than conventional methods in terms of the peak signal-to-noise ratio by 3 dB. …”
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Scatter and Blurring Compensation in Inhomogeneous Media Using a Postprocessing Method by Yan Yan, Gengsheng L. Zeng

“…The compensation is performed using a computer-simulated NCAT phantom and a flanged Jaszczak experimental phantom. …”
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Improved Excitation Light Rejection Enhances Small-Animal Fluorescent Optical Imaging by Kildong Hwang, Jessica P. Houston, John C. Rasmussen, Amit Joshi, Shi Ke, Chun Li, Eva M. Sevick-Muraca

“…To assess excitation leakage, the “out-of-band ( S (Λ x ))” to “in-band ( S (Λ m )– S (Λ x ))” signal ratio from phantom studies and the target-to-background ratio (TBR) from in vivo animal imaging was acquired with and without collimating optics. …”
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Planar Monopoles with Different Radiator Shapes for UWB Body-Centric Wireless Communications by Y. Y. Sun, S. W. Cheung, T. I. Yuk

“…Simulated and measured results of these monopoles on the phantom show that the horizontal elliptical monopole achieves the widest impedance bandwidths, highest average peak gain and efficiency, least path loss, best fidelity, and good radiation pattern, making it a good candidate for UWB body-centric wireless communications.…”
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Various Textiles-Based Comparative Analysis of a Millimeter Wave Miniaturized Novel Antenna Design for Body-Centric Communications by Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan, Kaisarul Islam, Md. Nakib Alam Shovon, Mehedi Masud, Mohammed Baz, Mohammed A. AlZain

“…For the on-body scenario, the antenna was simulated over five different distances from a human torso phantom. At the closest distance from the phantom, the antenna’s gain was 5.27 dBi, while the radiation dropped significantly to 63%. …”
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Voxelwise characterization of noise for a clinical photon-counting CT scanner with a model-based iterative reconstruction algorithm by Luigi Masturzo, Patrizio Barca, Luca De Masi, Daniela Marfisi, Antonio Traino, Filippo Cademartiri, Marco Giannelli

“…Methods Forty repeated axial acquisitions (tube voltage 120 kV, tube load 200 mAs, slice thickness 0.4 mm) of a homogeneous water phantom and CTP404 module (Catphan-504) were performed. …”
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An Approximate Cone Beam Reconstruction Algorithm for Gantry-Tilted CT Using Tangential Filtering by Ming Yan, Cishen Zhang, Hongzhu Liang

“…The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated with turbell clock phantom and thorax phantom and compared with FDK algorithm and a popular 2D (two-dimensional) approximate algorithm. …”
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Small-Animal Imaging Using Clinical Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography and Super-Resolution by Frank P. DiFilippo, Sagar Patel, Kewal Asosingh, Serpil C. Erzurum

“…The 2 mm rod of the NU 4 phantom was visualized with high contrast, and the major structures of the mouse were well resolved. …”
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Out-of-field dose assessment for pencil beam scanning proton radiotherapy versus photon radiotherapy for breast cancer in pregnant women by Menke Weessies, Murillo Bellezzo, Britt J.P. Hupkens, Frank Verhaegen, Gloria Vilches-Freixas

“…Measurements were conducted using an adapted anthropomorphic phantom representing 20- and 30-week pregnancy. Bubble detectors placed in the phantom’s abdomen assessed neutron dose from PBS-PRT, while a Farmer ion chamber was used for imaging and XRT dose. …”
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Metamaterial-Loaded 16-Printed Log Periodic Antenna Array for Microwave Imaging of Breast Tumor Detection by Avez Syed, Muntasir Sheikh, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Hatem Rmili

“…All 16 transceiver antennas are arranged vertically in a circular pattern around the phantom, each acting as a transmitter and the rest as receivers. …”
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X-Ray Computed Tomography: Semiautomated Volumetric Analysis of Late-Stage Lung Tumors as a Basis for Response Assessments by C. Bendtsen, M. Kietzmann, R. Korn, P. D. Mozley, G. Schmidt, G. Binnig

“…Methods. An anthropomorphic phantom with embedded model masses and 71 time points in 10 clinical cases with advanced lung cancer was analyzed using a semi-automated workflow. …”
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Improved Image Fusion in PET/CT Using Hybrid Image Reconstruction and Super-Resolution by John A. Kennedy, Ora Israel, Alex Frenkel, Rachel Bar-Shalom, Haim Azhari

“…Results. In the phantom studies, 3 mmF18-FDG sources were resolved. …”
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Adaptive Bayesian Iterative Transmission Reconstruction for Attenuation Correction in Myocardial Perfusion Imaging with SPECT/Slow-Rotation Low-Output CT Systems by Ji Chen, Ernest V. Garcia, Russell D. Folks, Aharon Peretz, James R. Galt

“…ABITR was tested with a cardiac phantom and 4 normal patients acquired by a GE Millennium VG/Hawkeye system. …”
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Multi-Band mm-Wave Wearable Antenna Synthesized with a Genetic Algorithm by Arebu Dejen, Murad Ridwan, Jeevani Jayasinghe, Jaume Anguera

“…For on-body analysis, the antenna was simulated using a three-layer human body phantom model at three distinct distances. The gain and radiation efficiency were significantly reduced when the antenna was close to the phantom model and gradually enhanced as the gap increased. …”
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Quantitative accuracy of preclinical in ovo PET/MRI: influence of attenuation and quantification methods by Theresa Balber, Katarína Benčurová, Manuela Mayrhofer, Joachim Friske, Martin Haas, Claudia Kuntner, Thomas H. Helbich, Marcus Hacker, Markus Mitterhauser, Ivo Rausch

“…Method An in-house made chicken egg phantom was used to investigate the magnitude of self-attenuation and the influence of the MRI hardware on the PET signal. …”
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