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World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, June 7-12, 2015, Toronto, Canada

  • David A. Jaffray
Conference proceedings

Part of the IFMBE Proceedings book series (IFMBE, volume 51)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages I-XXXVII
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  2. IMAGING

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Evaluation of the Difficulties of the Learning Process of Mammographic Readings
      P. C. Carneiro, L. O. Mamere, A. C. Patrocinio
      Pages 3-6
    3. Modeling Breast Cancer Tissue via Analysis of WAXS Signatures
      R. J. LeClair
      Pages 7-10
    4. Analysis of 80 kV WAXS Measurements with a CdTe Breast Biopsy Diffractometer
      N. McDonald, R. J. LeClair
      Pages 11-14
    5. Sensitometric analyses of screen-film systems for mammography exams in Brazil
      L. L. Medeiros, L. A. G. Magalhaes, J. J. S. Estrada, N. M. P. D Ferreira, C. E. de Almeida
      Pages 15-17
    6. Actions for Implementation Program of Image Quality of Mammography
      R. B. Venancio, L. S. Oliveira, R . S. Ribeiro, C. L. Debs, A. C. Patrocínio
      Pages 18-21
    7. The potential of spectral-CT for material decomposition with gold-nanoparticle and iodine contrast
      B. Jo, H. S. Im, H. J. Kim, T. J. Son, H. J. Kim
      Pages 22-25
    8. New Line Contrast Figure of Merit for image quality assessment
      A. Dermitzakis, A. Daskalaki, K. Bliznakova, N. Pallikarakis
      Pages 26-28
    9. Assessment of Photostimulable Storage Phosphor Imaging Plates Quality in Computed Radiography
      B. Q. Friedrich, A. M. Marques da Silva, R. M. Luz, J. V. Real, A. S. Capaverde
      Pages 29-32
    10. Influence of Contrast Enhancement to Breast Density Classification by Using Sigmoid Function
      M. F. Angelo, P. C. Carneiro, T. C. Granado, A. C. Patrocinio
      Pages 33-36
    11. Evaluating Techniques of Transformation Intensity for Contrast Enhancement in Mammographic Images
      A. C. Patrocinio, R. J. P. de Lima, M. F. Angelo
      Pages 37-40
    12. Characterization and Analysis of the Physical Parameters in Dental X-Rays Phantom
      L. F. Silva, J. M. Santos, C. M. M. Paschoal, D. N. Souza, L. M. Brasil, F. C. L. Ferreira
      Pages 41-45
    13. Study on the Main Nonconformities Found in no Mammography Alagoas State
      J. R. Almeida Neto, C. M. M. Paschoal, D. N. Souza, L. M. Brasil, F. C. L. Ferreira
      Pages 46-49
    14. Absorbed dose in PMMA and Equivalent Breast Phantom in a Digital Breast Tomosynthesis system: Monte Carlo Assessment
      L. Rodrigues, L. A. G. Magalhaes, D. Braz
      Pages 50-53
    15. 2D/3D Registration for Motion Compensated Reconstruction in Cone-Beam CT of Knees UnderWeight-Bearing Condition
      M. Berger, K. Müller, J. -H. Choi, A. Aichert, A. Maier, R. Fahrig
      Pages 54-57
    16. Automatic Motion Estimation and Compensation Framework for Weight-bearing C-arm CT scans using Fiducial Markers
      K. Müller, M. Berger, J. -H. Choi, A. Maier, R. Fahrig
      Pages 58-61
    17. Towards Image Quality Analysis of Small and Full Field of View Dental Cone Beam CT Systems
      E. C. Hoffmann, A. M. Marques da Silva, D. F. G. Azevedo
      Pages 62-65
    18. Feasibility study for 3D cone-beam computed tomography reconstruction with few projection data using MLEM algorithm with total variation minimization
      D. H. Lee, Y. S. Kim, S. H. Choi, H. H. Lee, H. J. Kim
      Pages 66-69
    19. A weighted stochastic gradient descent algorithm for image reconstruction in 3D computed tomography
      Davood Karimi, Rabab Ward, Nancy Ford
      Pages 70-73
    20. Investigation of sparse-angle view in cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) reconstruction algorithm using a sinogram interpolaton method
      Dohyeon Kim, Su-Jin Park, Byungdu Jo, Hyemi Kim, Hee-Joung Kim
      Pages 74-77
    21. Non-deterministic optimization using Differential Evolution algorithm to launch seeds for liver segmentation in MDCT
      R. L. Thomaz, R. Anastácio, T. A. A. Macedo, A. C. Patrocinio, A. B. Soares
      Pages 78-81
    22. Anatomical noise model for CT head images: preliminary results
      R. A. Miller-Clemente, M. Perez-Diaz
      Pages 82-84
    23. Development of Dynamic Anthropomorphic Heart Phantom (DHAP)
      A. Ursani, M. Rice, S. Sajja, F. Ursani, N. Paul
      Pages 85-90
    24. Characterization of Vulnerable Plaque with Dual-Energy during CT Coronary Angiography: A Phantom Study
      A. Ursani, C. Hoy, Sachin Moghe, N. S. Paul
      Pages 91-94
    25. Performance of Attenuation-based Dynamic CT Beam-shaping Filtration for Elliptical Subject Geometries in Dependence of Fan- and Projection-angle
      S. Veloza, H. U. Kauczor, W. Stiller
      Pages 95-98
    26. Gd-based Nanoparticles Mediated Magnetic Field Enhancement Inside Homogenous Tissue: Simulation using Finite Element Method
      S. Rezaei, N. Riyahi-Alam, M. Ostovari
      Pages 99-102
    27. Optimization of Pulse-Triggered fMRI Measurement Delay with Acoustic Stimulation
      A. Król, Z. Drzazga, U. Klose
      Pages 103-106
    28. Numerical Simpson’s Rule for Real Time and Accurate T2* maps generation Using 3D Quantitative GRE
      C. Fatnassi, R. Boucenna, H. Zaidi
      Pages 107-110
    29. Improvement of Pseudo Multispectral Classification of Brain MR Images
      C. Fatnassi, R. Boucenna, H. Zaidi
      Pages 111-114
    30. Unwrapping highly wrapped phase using Nonlinear Multi Echo phase unwrapping
      C. Fatnassi, R. Boucenna, H. Zaidi
      Pages 115-118
    31. Gadolinium Labeled Glycosylated Nanomagnetic Particles as Metabolic Contrast Agents in Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
      S. Heydarnezhadi, N. Riyahi-Alam, S. Haghoo, M. Khobi, B. Nikfar, E. Gorji et al.
      Pages 119-122
    32. Properties Evaluation of Gd2O3-DEG as New Contrast Agent Nanomagnetic Particles Comparing to Gd-DTPA in MRI
      B. Nikfar, N. Riahi Alam, S. Haghgoo, E. Gorji, H. Ghanaati, B. Rafiei et al.
      Pages 123-125
    33. In Vitro and In Vivo Studies Glycosylated Gadolinum Nanomagnetic Particleas (GD-DTPA-DG) as New Potential Metabolic Contrast Agent in MMRI
      S. Heydarnezhadi, N. Riyahi-Alam, S. Haghgoo, E. Gorji, H. Ghenaati, B. Rafiei
      Pages 126-131
    34. Intersex differences in posterior eye chamber by spectral optical coherent tomography
      K. Maciejewska, Iwona Pajonk, Zofia Drzazga
      Pages 132-135
    35. Understanding Lung Ultrasound Artifacts using a Phantom Lung Model
      J. S. Loh, A. P. Walden, R. O. Cleveland
      Pages 136-146
    36. Quantitative accuracy of SPECT imaging with a dedicated cardiac camera: Physical phantom experiments
      Amir Pourmoghaddas, R. Glenn Wells
      Pages 147-149
    37. Simultaneous estimation of the radioactivity distribution and electron density map from scattered coincidences in PET: A project overview
      Hongyan Sun, Mohammadreza Teimoorisichani, Bryan McIntosh, Geng Zhang, Harry Ingleby, Andrew Goertzen et al.
      Pages 150-153
    38. Quantitative Functional Imaging with Hybrid PET-CT Via Improved Kinetics Modeling: Application to 18F-Fluorocholine PET Imaging of Prostate Cancer
      A. R. Blais, M. Dekaban, J. Hadway, T. Y. Lee
      Pages 154-157
    39. Experimental Study on Amplitude Frequency of Acoustic Signal Excited by Coupling Magneto-Acoustic Field
      R. MA, S. ZHANG, T. YIN, Z. LIUi
      Pages 158-161
    40. 4 Years of X-ray Imaging at 05B1-1 Beamline at BMIT
      G. Belev, D. Miller, N. Samadi, M. A. Webb, T. W. Wysokinski, N. Zhu et al.
      Pages 162-165
    41. Indirect measurement of average alveolar dimension using dynamic phase-contrast imaging
      M. Martinson, R. A. Lewis, A. Fouras, M. Siew, M. Wallace, S. B. Hooper et al.
      Pages 166-168
    42. Detectability in SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging: Comparison between a Conventional and a Semiconductor Detector System
      C. M. Dartora, M. S. Favero, A. M. Marques da Silva
      Pages 169-172
    43. Monte Carlo simulation of interventional cardiac scenarios using a newborn hybrid phantom and MCNPX code
      F. R. Cavalcante, A. B. Carvalho Júnior, W. S. Santos, Choonsik Lee
      Pages 173-176
    44. Quantitative low-kVp CT angiography in carotid artery imaging
      Tingyu Mao, Pengwei Wu, Gaofeng Wang, Xiangyang Tang, Hongjie Hu, Tianye Niu
      Pages 177-180
    45. Characterization of scatter factors in thyroid studies using a pinhole collimator by Monte Carlo Simulation.
      S. Rodríguez, A. López, A. Díaz, A. Palau, J. M. Martín
      Pages 181-186
    46. The Use of Wavelet Filters for Reducing Noise in Posterior Fossa Computed Tomography Images
      R. Pita-Machado, M. Perez-Diaz, J. E. Paz-Viera, J. V. Lorenzo-Ginori, Y. Ruiz-Gonzalez
      Pages 187-190
    47. Automatic Liver Localization based on Classification Random Forest with KNN for Prediction
      Benwei Gong, Baochun He, Qingmao Hu, Fucang Jia
      Pages 191-194
    48. Brain Tumor Target Volume Segmentation: Local Region Based Approach
      Mehdi Astaraki, Hossein Aslian
      Pages 195-198
    49. Investigating automatic techniques in segmentation accuracy of masses in digital mammography images
      K. D. Marcomini, H. Schiabel
      Pages 199-202

About these proceedings

Introduction

This book presents the proceedings of the IUPESM World Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, a tri-annual high-level policy meeting dedicated exclusively to furthering the role of biomedical engineering and medical physics in medicine. The book offers papers about emerging issues related to the development and sustainability of the role and impact of medical physicists and biomedical engineers in medicine and healthcare. It provides a unique and important forum to secure a coordinated, multileveled global response to the need, demand, and importance of creating and supporting strong academic and clinical teams of biomedical engineers and medical physicists for the benefit of human health.

Keywords

Active Implants Biological Effects of lonizing and Non-lonizing Radiation Biomaterials Biomechanics Biosensors Biosignal Processing Clinical Engineering Diagnostic Imaging Diagnostic and Therapeutic Instrumentation IFMBE IOMP IUPESM Image Processing

Editors and affiliations

  • David A. Jaffray
    • 1
  1. 1.Techna InstituteUniversity Health NetworkTorontoCanada

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19387-8
  • Copyright Information Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
  • Publisher Name Springer, Cham
  • eBook Packages Engineering
  • Print ISBN 978-3-319-19386-1
  • Online ISBN 978-3-319-19387-8
  • Series Print ISSN 1680-0737
  • Series Online ISSN 1433-9277
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