Neutrino detection at the Large Hadron Collider: SND@LHC by Biswas, Riddhi

“…They have attracted physicists from all over the world who want to study the properties of these unique neutral, weakly interacting, and particularly most abundant fermions present in the Universe. …”
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Quantification of regional early stage gas exchange changes using hyperpolarized (129)Xe MRI in a rat model of radiation-induced lung injury. by Doganay, O, Stirrat, E, McKenzie, C, Schulte, R, Santyr, G

Unwrapping 3D complex hollow organs for spatial dose surface analysis by Witztum, A, George, B, Warren, S, Partridge, M, Hawkins, M

Paediatric radiation dose and cancer risk associated with body effective diameter during CT thorax examination by Abdul Karim, Muhammad Khalis, Haspi Harun, Hanif, Kayun, Zunaide, Aljewaw, Osama Bagi, Azizan, S. H.N., Rafiz, N. F.N.M., Muhammad, Nor Azura

“…SSDE value was estimate in accordance with the American Association of Physicists, 2011 in Medicine (AAPM) report 204. The effective dose (E) and SSDENCICT obtained from National Cancer Institute Dosimetry System (NCICT) were then compared to the conventional SSDE value. …”

Dose verification procedures in radiotherapy by Zakaria, Ahmad, Idris, Nik Rusman Nik

“…The charges collected at the selected points were converted to absolute dose using American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 21 (AAPM TG 21) Protocol.The test cases carried out in this study include open square field and normal incidence, rectangular field, wedged, oblique incidence and non-flat surface, open square field with lung and bone inhomogeneities. …”
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Evaluation of clinical parallel workflow in online adaptive MR-guided Radiotherapy: A detailed assessment of treatment session times by Claudio Votta, Sara Iacovone, Gabriele Turco, Valerio Carrozzo, Marica Vagni, Aurora Scalia, Giuditta Chiloiro, Guenda Meffe, Matteo Nardini, Giulia Panza, Lorenzo Placidi, Angela Romano, Patrizia Cornacchione, Maria Antonietta Gambacorta, Luca Boldrini

“…Introduction: Advancements in MRI-guided radiotherapy (MRgRT) enable clinical parallel workflows (CPW) for online adaptive planning (oART), allowing medical physicists (MPs), physicians (MDs), and radiation therapists (RTTs) to perform their tasks simultaneously. …”
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Radiotherapy services in low resource settings: The situation in Nigeria by Abidoye Matthew Akinwande, Daniel Chimuanya Ugwuanyi, Hyacienth Uche Chiegwu, Felicitas Idigo, Michael Promise Ogolodom, Chidinma Pamela Anakwenze, Roland Abi, Oluwaponmile Odukoya

“…The highest number 64.3% ( n  = 9) out of the 14 required number of staff in each center was found at University College Hospital. Out of 31 medical physicists identified, the majority 22.6% ( n  = 7) was found at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital. …”
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PErspective and current status of Radiotherapy Service in IRan (PERSIR)-1 study: assessment of current external beam radiotherapy facilities, staff and techniques compared to the i... by Arefeh Saeedian, Fatemeh-sadat Tabatabaei, Amirali Azimi, Mohammad Babaei, Marzieh Lashkari, Ebrahim Esmati, Zeinab Abiar, Leila Moadabshoar, Saleh Sandoughdaran, Mitchell Kamrava, Arya Amini, Reza Ghalehtaki

“…There were 344, 252, and 419 active radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and radiation therapy technologists, respectively. …”
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Thermal performance of GO-MoS2/ engine oil as Maxwell hybrid nanofluid flow with heat transfer in oscillating vertical cylinder by Muhammad Arif, Poom Kumam, Dolat Khan, Wiboonsak Watthayu

“…Furthermore, the nonlinear nature of viscoelastic non-Newtonian fluids, introduce a unique challenge to physicists and mathematicians. In the past three decades, viscoelastic fluid models are focused to improve its accuracy and reliability. …”
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Adaptive magnetic resonance image guided radiation for intact localized prostate cancer how to optimally test a rapidly emerging technology by William A. Hall, Amar U. Kishan, Emma Hall, Himanshu Nagar, Danny Vesprini, Eric Paulson, Uulke A. Van der Heide, Colleen A. F. Lawton, Linda G. W. Kerkmeijer, Alison C. Tree

“…We sought to summarize optimal strategies to test the benefits of MR guidance specifically in localized prostate cancer.MethodsA group of radiation oncologists, physicists, and statisticians were identified to collectively address this topic. …”
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Rapid Identification of Pathogens Causing Bloodstream Infections by Raman Spectroscopy and Raman Tweezers by Katarina Rebrosova, Silvie Bernatová, Martin Šiler, Jan Mašek, Ota Samek, Jan Ježek, Martin Kizovsky, Veronika Holá, Pavel Zemanek, Filip Růžička

“…Therefore, our multidisciplinary team of microbiologists and physicists presents a method that reliably, rapidly, and inexpensively identifies pathogens causing bloodstream infections—Raman spectroscopy. …”
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Monte Carlo dosimetry of the 60Co sources of a new GZP3 HDR afterloading system by Junxiang Wu, Shengwei Kang, Pei Wang, Jie Li, Xianliang Wang

“…Methods The Monte Carlo software Geant4 and EGSnrc were employed to derive accurate calculations of the dosimetric parameters of the new GZP3 60Co brachytherapy source in the range of 0–10 cm, following the formalism proposed by American Association of Physicists in Medicine reports TG43 and TG43U1. Results of the two Monte Carlo codes were compared to verify the accuracy of the data. …”
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Automated planning of stereotactic spine re-irradiation using cumulative dose limits by Sebastian Meyer, Lei Zhang, Yilin Liu, Li Cheng Kuo, Yu-Chi Hu, Yoshiya Yamada, Masoud Zarepisheh, Pengpeng Zhang, Laura Cerviño

“…Results: All DART plans met institutional physical and cumulative constraints and passed plan checks by qualified medical physicists. DART demonstrated significant improvements in target coverage over clinical plans, with an average increase in PTV D99% and V100% of 2.3 Gy [range −0.3–7.7 Gy] and 3.4 % [range −0.4 %−7.6 %] (p < 0.01, paired t-test), respectively. …”
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Comparison of pencil beam and Monte Carlo calculations with ion chamber array measurements for patient-specific quality assurance by Yu Deng, Zhi Chen, Qianxia Wang, Pablo Yepes, Zhuangming Shen, Hongliang Chen, Jie Li, Michael F. Moyers

“…For about 75% of portals, physicists can perform comparisons of calculations instead of phantom measurements to verify Syngo calculations thereby saving a large amount of beam time. …”
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WeWhoCurie: An Initiative to Advocate for Those Underrepresented in Radiation Oncology by Joy Ogunmuyiwa, MD, MPH, Sara Beltrán Ponce, MD, Crystal Seldon, MD, Kelly Paradis, PhD, Amanda Khan, MSc, MD, PhD, Michael Dyer, MD, Parul N. Barry, MD, Hina Saeed, MD, Jenna M. Kahn, MD, Afua A. Yorke, PhD

“…Radiation oncologists, physicists, dosimetrist, therapists, nurses, and other professionals from around the world gathered and shared photos and social media posts throughout the day on multiple platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. …”
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Development and dissemination of structured hashtags for radiation oncology: Two-Year trends by Atallah Baydoun, Ian J. Pereira, Sandra Turner, Shankar Siva, Ashley A. Albert, D. Andrew Loblaw, Richard A. Simcock, Nicholas G. Zaorsky, Matthew S. Katz

“…Materials/Methods: Hashtags were created, voted on, and refined by crowdsourcing 38 international experts, including physicians, physicists, patients, and organizations from North America, Europe, and Australia. …”
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BEBIG 60Co HDR brachytherapy source dosimetric parameters validation using GATE Geant4-based simulation code by Musa Joya, Hassan Ali Nedaie, Ghazale Geraily, Mahdi Ghorbani, Peyman Sheikhzadeh, Mahmud Naraqi Arani

“…According to the recommendation of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) task group report number 43, the dosimetric parameters of a new brachytherapy source should be verified either experimentally or by Monte Carlo calculation before clinical applications. …”
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Results of a Multi-Disciplinary and Multi-Institutional Pilot Creating High-Yield Physics Educational Content (Hi-Phy) by Gabrielle W. Peters, MD, Douglas Forbush, BA, Martin Slade, MPH, Justin de la Cruz, MS, Todd F. Atwood, PhD, Derek Brown, PhD, Jay Burmeister, PhD, Eric Ford, PhD, Titania Juang, PhD, Holly Lincoln, MS, Suzanne B. Evans, MD, MPH

“…Methods and materials: Scripting and storyboarding of videos were iterative processes performed by 2 ROs and 6 medical physicists, with animations created by a university broadcasting specialist. …”
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Tratamiento Radiante con Técnica de Arcos Volumétricos Modulados en Metástasis Cerebrales Múltiples, revisión de la literatura y casos clínicos by María Sarmiento Godoy, Nelson Urdaneta Lafée, Jesús Dávila Pérez

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A century of X-ray crystallography and 2014 international year of X-ray crystallography by Biserka Kojić-Prodić

“…The experimental evidence of von Laue's discovery was given by physicists W. Friedrich and P. Knipping in 1912.  In the same year W. …”
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