Developing an educational “hub”: impact of a distance-learning curriculum in a multinational cohort by Meridith L. Balbach, Grantly Neely, Afua Yorke, Evangelina Figueroa-Medina, Jonathan Paly, Rebecca M. Shulman, Claire Dempsey, Adam Shulman, Cesar Della Biancia, William B. Cutrer, Benjamin C. Li

“…Methods A curriculum was created based on prior needs assessments and adapted for participating medical physicists, radiation oncologists, radiation therapists, and trainees in LMICs. …”
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Compensation of Cross-Contamination in Simultaneous 201Tl/99mTc Myocardial Perfusion SPECT Imaging by Faraz Kalantari, Hossein Rajabi, Nahid Yaghoobi, Ahmad Bitarafan

“…Identical rest/stress registration of images also facilitates physicists’ motion or attenuation corrections and physicians’ image interpretation.…”
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Size specific dose estimate (SSDE) for estimating patient dose from CT used in myocardial perfusion SPECT/CT by Vishnukumar Rajaraman, Madhusudhanan Ponnusamy, Dhanapathi Halanaik

“…Corresponding conversion factors for effective diameters were obtained from American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) report 204. SSDE was obtained as the product of CTDIvol and conversion factor values. …”
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Analysis of the Rate of Re-planning in Spot-Scanning Proton Therapy by Yue-Houng Hu, PhD, Riley H. Harper, Noelle C. Deiter, CMD, RTT, Jaden D. Evans, MD, Anita Mahajan, MD, Jon J. Kruse, PhD, Daniel W. Mundy, PhD

“…Substantial resources, however, are required to conduct an effective proton plan verification program, which includes but is not limited to, additional computed tomography (CT) scanner time and dedicated personnel: radiation therapists, medical physicists, physicians, and medical dosimetrists. Materials and Methods: Verification scans (VSs) and re-plans (RPs) of 711 patients treated with proton therapy between June 2015 and June 2018 were studied. …”
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EVALUACIÓN DE LA APLICACIÓN DEL PRINCIPIO DE LA INDIVIDUALIZACIÓN Y EL CARÁCTER CONSCIENTE EN EL RENDIMIENTO DEPORTIVO DE FUTBOLISTAS EN FORMACIÓN by Lázaro Clodoaldo Lázaro Enríquez Caro, Tatiana Valeria Cedeño Centeno, Kleber Raymundo Briones Rubio, Idelisa Esther Castro Bermúdez

“…Built a referential framework on variables that served as the epistemological basis to a pre formative experiment with helper methods such as observation, survey and a battery of test physicists and technicians. It worked with the sub team - 14 of the province of Manabí, Ecuador in the 2017 season. …”
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Physics-Aware Deep-Learning-Based Proxy Reservoir Simulation Model Equipped With State and Well Output Prediction by Emilio Jose Rocha Coutinho, Emilio Jose Rocha Coutinho, Marcelo Dall’Aqua, Eduardo Gildin

“…Data-driven methods have been revolutionizing the way physicists and engineers handle complex and challenging problems even when the physics is not fully understood. …”
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RTT-led IGRT for cervix cancer; training, implementation and validation by S.E. Alexander, N. Hopkins, S. Lalondrelle, A. Taylor, K. Titmarsh, H.A. McNair

“…The content was decided by a team comprised of Clinical Oncologists, RTTs, and Physicists. On completion of training, RTT soft-tissue review proficiency (after bony anatomy registration) was assessed against a clinician gold-standard from a database of 20 cervical cancer CBCT images. …”
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Advanced brachytherapy dosimetric considerations by Melhus, Christopher S. (Christopher Scott), 1974-

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Polarization dependent photocurrents in thin films of the topological insulator Bi₂Se₃ by Lau, Claudia (Claudia M.)

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Potential benefits of dosimetric VMAT tracking verified with 3D film measurements by Crijns, W, Defraene, G, Van Herck, H, Depuydt, T, Haustermans, K, Maes, F, Van den Heuvel, F

Observation of s-Channel Single Top Quark Production at the Tevatron by Cremonesi, M

“…<p>Testing the Standard Model (SM) and looking for new phenomena have been the focus of generations of particle physicists in the last decades. Following this spirit, this thesis presents two searches.…”

Epidemiologic methodology in public health: new frontiers & challenges by Omar Hasan K

“…Epidemiologists will continue being involved in the application of their methodology to real-life public health problems unlike theoretical physicists or mathematicians who can afford to keep their hands clean from toiling in the field. …”
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Diversity and Professional Advancement in Medical Physics by Jillian Rankin, BS, Brendan Whelan, PhD, Julianne Pollard-Larkin, PhD, Kelly C. Paradis, PhD, Matthew Scarpelli, PhD, Chenbo Sun, BS, Christina Mehta, PhD, Keyvan Farahani, PhD, Richard Castillo, PhD

“…Methods and Materials: The 2020 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) membership was queried as surrogate for the medical physics workforce. …”
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Dosimetric study of the medical Agility grating system in radiotherapy of orbital lymphoma by Shi Huifeng, Tu Wenyong, Hu Haisheng, Fan Wenhui, Bi Fan

“…Abstract Objective The spatial location of the orbital lymphoma target area is special; improving the quality of the orbital lymphoma plan and protecting the eye are important focus areas for doctors and physicists. This study aimed to investigate the dosimetric characteristics of the Agility grating system in orbital lymphoma. …”
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Spinal Cord Delineation Based on Computed Tomography Myelogram Versus T2 Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Spinal Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy by Lubna Hammoudeh, MD, Abdullah M. Abunimer, MD, MPH, Ho Young Lee, CMD, Edward Christopher Dee, BS, Victoria Brennan S, MD, Pei Yaguang, CMD, Kee-Young Shin, MS, Yu-Hui Chen, MS, MPH, Mai Anh Huynh, MD, PhD, Alexander Spektor, MD, PhD, Jeffrey P. Guenette, MD, Tracy Balboni, MD, MPH

“…Methods and Materials: Eight patients with 9 spinal metastases treated with spinal SBRT were contoured by 8 radiation oncologists, neurosurgeons, and physicists, with spinal cord definition based on (1) fused axial T2 MRI and (2) CT-myelogram simulation images, yielding 72 sets of spinal cord contours. …”
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Mitigation of Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Errors on the Novel RefleXion X1 System Using Failure Mode and Effect... by Eric Simiele, PhD, Bin Han, PhD, Lawrie Skinner, PhD, Daniel Pham, PhD, Jonathan Lewis, MS, Michael Gensheimer, MD, Lucas Vitzthum, MD, Daniel Chang, MD, Murat Surucu, PhD, Nataliya Kovalchuk, PhD

“…The multidisciplinary team outlined the workflow process and identified and ranked the failure modes associated with the plan check items using the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 100 recommendations. …”
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Zr2SeB and Hf2SeB: Two new MAB phase compounds with the Cr2AlC-type MAX phase (211 phase) crystal structures by Qiqiang Zhang, Yanchun Zhou, Xingyuan San, Wenbo Li, Yiwang Bao, Qingguo Feng, Salvatore Grasso, Chunfeng Hu

“…This work opens up the composition window for the MAB phases and MAX phases and will trigger the interests of material scientists and physicists to explore new compounds and properties in this new family of materials.…”
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Correlation of dosimetric factors with the development of symptomatic radiation pneumonitis in stereotactic body radiotherapy by Jeffrey M. Ryckman, Michael Baine, Joseph Carmicheal, Ferdinand Osayande, Richard Sleightholm, Kaeli Samson, Dandan Zheng, Weining Zhen, Chi Lin, Chi Zhang

“…This study aims to correlate dosimetric values and their association with the development of Symptomatic RP according to recent reporting standards as recommended by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Methods We performed a single-institution retrospective review for patients who received SBRT to the lung from 2010 to 2017. …”
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PENGEMBANGAN MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN RODA PUTAR FISIKA UNTUK MENINGKATKAN MOTIVASI BELAJAR SISWA by Hamzah Hamzah, Linda Sekar Utami, Zulkarnain Zulkarnain

“…This media was validated by 4 experts, 1 media expert and 3 physicists who showed that the results for the educational criteria 4 experts gave a value of A, for display criteria 2 experts gave an A value one expert gave a value of B and C and technical criteria 4 experts gave a value of A The physics spinning wheel media developed also has very good criteria to increase student motivation by a percentage of 75% compared to before using the physics spinning wheel that is equal to 56,25%. …”
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Diamond Detectors for Radiotherapy X-Ray Small Beam Dosimetry by C. Talamonti, C. Talamonti, K. Kanxheri, S. Pallotta, S. Pallotta, L. Servoli

“…These dosimetric issues represent a new challenge for medical physicists. To choose the most appropriate detector for small field dosimetry, different features must be considered. …”
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