Impacts of Filtration on Contrast-Detail Detectability of an X-ray Imaging System

“…The corresponding X-ray spectra and contrast-detail detectabilities were measured using two phantoms of different thicknesses simulating breast tissue under different exposures. …”
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Perceptual Disturbances and Disorders in the ICD-11: An Overview and a Proposal for Systematic Classification by Berthold Langguth, Michael Landgrebe, Dirk De Ridder

“…These can manifest as distorted perceptions or as phantom perceptions and can occur in all sensory modalities as visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory tactile, vestibular, proprioceptory or interoceptory disturbances. …”
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Calculation of Involved and Noninvolved Organs Doses in Carbon Therapy of Brain Tumor Using GEANT4 Simulation Toolkit by Maria Ahmadi, Seyed Mohammad Motevalli, Payvand Taherparvar, Vahid zanganeh

“…Introduction: This study used the GEANT4 Monte Carlo toolkit for radiation transport simulations in brain carbon therapy, incorporating a human phantom model to accurately assess dose delivery to targeted and non-targeted organs. …”
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Use of a Ray-Based Reconstruction Algorithm to Accurately Quantify Preclinical MicroSPECT Images by Bert Vandeghinste, Roel Van Holen, Christian Vanhove, Filip De Vos, Stefaan Vandenberghe, Steven Staelens

“…This was investigated with an extensive phantom-based evaluation and two typical in vivo studies using 99m Tc and 111 In, measured on a commercially available cadmium zinc telluride (CZT)-based small-animal scanner. …”
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Comparison of Low-Pass Filters for SPECT Imaging by Inayatullah S. Sayed, Siti S. Ismail

“…SPECT data were acquired by scanning a phantom with an insert composed of hot and cold regions. …”
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Smooth Crossing of wΛ=−1 Line in a Single Scalar Field Model by Abhik Kumar Sanyal

“…Smooth double crossing of the phantom divide line wΛ=−1 has been found possible with a single minimally coupled scalar field for the most simple form of generalized k-essence cosmological model, in the presence of background cold dark matter. …”
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Volumetric hyperthermia delivery using the ExAblate Body MR-guided focused ultrasound system by Kisoo Kim, Pragya Gupta, Kazim Narsinh, Chris J. Diederich, Eugene Ozhinsky

“…To demonstrate the feasibility of volumetric hyperthermia in the system, a tissue-mimicking phantom was sonicated with two distinct spots through mechanical transducer movement and sector-vortex beamforming. …”
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Mammalian Cells Individually Expressing Membrane-Associated Magnetosome Proteins I, L, B, and E by Qin Sun PhD, Gabriel Varela-Mattatall PhD, Prushoth Vivekanantha PhD, Moeiz Ahmed PhD, Salvan Hassan PhD, Selinia Hong PhD, Neil Gelman PhD, R. Terry Thompson PhD, Frank S. Prato PhD, Donna E. Goldhawk PhD

“…We examined the influence of these genes on cellular MRI relaxation rates by culturing cells in the presence and absence of iron-supplemented medium and scanning them at 3 Tesla using a gelatin phantom. Total cellular iron was measured by inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry and correlated with relaxation rates obtained from phantom experiments. …”
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Dynamics of Mixed Dark Energy Domination in Teleparallel Gravity and Phase-Space Analysis by Emre Dil, Erdinç Kolay

“…Here we propose a mixed dark energy domination which is constituted by tachyon, quintessence, and phantom scalar fields nonminimally coupled to gravity, in the absence of background dark matter and baryonic matter, in the framework of teleparallel gravity. …”
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Magnetic resonance thermometry for hyperthermia in the oropharynx region by Theresa V. Feddersen, Juan A. Hernandez-Tamames, Margarethus M. Paulides, Michiel Kroesen, Gerard C. van Rhoon, Dirk H.J Poot

“…A 3D-ME-FGRE sequence was used in a phantom cooling down and around the oropharynx of five volunteers over ∼75 min. …”
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A Fusion Method of Gabor Wavelet Transform and Unsupervised Clustering Algorithms for Tissue Edge Detection by Burhan Ergen

“…The proposed methods are tested using medical images obtained through Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) devices, and a phantom image. The results prove that the proposed methods are successful for edge detection, even in noisy cases.…”
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Les Dynastes de Thomas Hardy : une poétique spectrale à l’œuvre contre la guerre by Annie Escuret

“…The living-dead, the phantom, the spectre appear in Derrida’s Specters of Marx (1993) but these concepts also appear in Freud’s notion of « The Uncanny », Foucault’s categories of silence and unspeakability or Kristeva’s definition of the abject. …”
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Cosmological Dynamics of a Hybrid Chameleon Scenario by Kourosh Nozari, Narges Rashidi

“…We show that the hybrid chameleon domination solution is a stable attractor and the universe in this setup experiences a phantom divide crossing.…”
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Pius Adesanmi: The Man Who Leaves and Lives by Toyin Falola

“… Death, captured in a box suspended in mid-air slowly ascending to land on a rock too far to see. The phantom is bold killing the scion of creativity and talent.  …”
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Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System guided objective function parameter optimization for inverse treatment planning by Eduardo Cisternas Jiménez, Fang-Fang Yin, Fang-Fang Yin, Fang-Fang Yin

“…Results demonstrate that ANFIS consistently met dosimetric goals, outperforming FIS with a 0.7% improvement in mean dose conformity for the planning target volume (PTV) and a 28% reduction in mean dose exposure for organs at risk (OARs) in a C-Shape phantom. In a mock prostate phantom, ANFIS reduced the mean dose by 17.4% for the rectum and by 14.1% for the bladder. …”
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Photon-counting-detector CT outperforms state-of-the-art cone-beam and energy-integrated-detector CT in delineation of dental root canals by Stephan Rau, Martin Peter Pichotka, Alexander Rau, Marco Reisert, Markus Jörg Altenburger, Rainer Schmelzeisen, Fabian Cieplik, Fabian Bamberg, Maximilian Frederik Russe, Wiebke Semper-Hogg

“…Abstract This experimental phantom study investigates current standard of care protocols in cone beam computed tomography (CBCT), energy-integrating-detector (EID) CT, and photon-counting-detector (PCD) CT regarding their potential in delineation of dental root canals. …”
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AI-based automatic patient positioning in a digital-BGO PET/CT scanner: efficacy and impact by John A. Kennedy, Tala Palchan-Hazan, Zohar Keidar

“…Off-centering measurements were validated by a phantom study. Results The phantom validation study gave < 1.6 mm error in 15 off-centering measurements. …”
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Tsallis Holographic Dark Energy with Granda-Oliveros Scale in (n+1)-Dimensional FRW Universe by Ayman A. Aly

“…Our results show that the universe is in an accelerating expansion mode described by phantom-like behavior. We go further and study the state finder operators and the Om diagnostic to understand the behavior of our model. …”
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Homemade Inflation Risks by Stefan Kooths

“…With no corresponding production of goods and services, these phantom incomes are by their very nature inflationary. …”
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Deep-learning based electromagnetic navigation system for transthoracic percutaneous puncture of small pulmonary nodules by Muyun Peng, Xinyi Fan, Qikang Hu, Xilong Mei, Bin Wang, Zeyu Wu, Huali Hu, Lei Tang, Xinhang Hu, Yanyi Yang, Chunxia Qin, Huajie Zhang, Qun Liu, Xiaofeng Chen, Fenglei Yu

“…We compared the performance of DL-EMNS and conventional CT-guided methods in percutaneous lung punctures using phantom and animal models. In the phantom study, the DL-EMNS group showed a higher technical success rate (95.6% vs. 77.8%, p = 0.027), smaller error (1.47 ± 1.62 mm vs. 3.98 ± 2.58 mm, p < 0.001), shorter procedure duration (291.56 ± 150.30 vs. 676.44 ± 246.12 s, p < 0.001), and fewer number of CT acquisitions (1.2 ± 0.66 vs. 2.93 ± 0.98, p < 0.001) compared to the traditional CT-guided group. …”
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