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Research & Innovation News

Innovation: patent applications review

Our survey of the latest international patent applications in radiation therapy reviews filings from Elekta, Accuray, Profound Medical and more.

How best to merge hybrid images

Workshop on hybrid imaging will discuss how imaging data derived from different modalities can be accurately merged.

3D images taken without a camera

Simple and cheap 3D imaging system could be used in medical applications.

Phantom assesses mammography quality

A phantom designed to evaluate the image quality of digital mammography systems offers high sensitivity at a lower cost.

Opinion

Open access and the impact on PMB

Simon Cherry examines the debate surrounding open access publishing and details the options offered by the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology.

CUBRIC: a focus on brain research

Researchers at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre can exploit a range of imaging techniques to study the workings of the human brain.

Omni-tomography: the ultimate in multimodality imaging?

Omni-tomography, in which multiple tomographic scanners are integrated into a single gantry, represents the next stage of multimodality fusion for biomedical imaging, says Ge Wang.

Personalized medicine: how medical physics can help

Medical physics has made a vast contribution to the development of modern medicine, but could still deliver a lot more, says Robert Jeraj.

Physics in Medicine & Biology

Constrained reconstructions for 4D intervention guidance

J Kuntz, B Flach, R Kueres, W Semmler, M Kachelrieß and S Bartling 2013 Phys. Med. Biol. 58 3283

Distributions of secondary particles in proton and carbon-ion therapy: a comparison between GATE/Geant4 and FLUKA Monte Carlo codes

C Robert, G Dedes, G Battistoni, T T Böhlen, I Buvat, F Cerutti, M P W Chin, A Ferrari, P Gueth, C Kurz, L Lestand, A Mairani, G Montarou, R Nicolini, P G Ortega, K Parodi, Y Prezado, P R Sala, D Sarrut and E Testa 2013 Phys. Med. Biol. 58 2879

On a dark-field signal generated by micrometer-sized calcifications in phase-contrast mammography

Thilo Michel, Jens Rieger, Gisela Anton, Florian Bayer, Matthias W Beckmann, Jürgen Durst, Peter A Fasching, Wilhelm Haas, Arndt Hartmann, Georg Pelzer, Marcus Radicke, Claudia Rauh, André Ritter, Peter Sievers, Rüdiger Schulz-Wendtland, Michael Uder, David L Wachter, Thomas Weber, Evelyn Wenkel and Andrea Zang 2013 Phys. Med. Biol. 58 2713

Kidney motion during free breathing and breath hold for MR-guided radiotherapy

Mette K Stam, Marco van Vulpen, Maurits M Barendrecht, Bernard A Zonnenberg, Martijn Intven, Sjoerd P M Crijns, Jan J W Lagendijk and Bas W Raaymakers 2013 Phys. Med. Biol. 58 2235