Biomedical Mathematics: Promising Directions in Imaging, Therapy Planning, and Inverse Problems

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Author:  Yair Censor, Ming Jiang, and Ge Wang, Editors
ISBN:  9781930524484
Published:  2010 June | 562 pp  | Hardcover

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Table of Contents

Preface (Below)

Contributing Authors

1. Planning and Optimizing Treatment Plans for Actively Scanned Proton Therapy
Francesca Albertini, Sylvain Gaignat, Matthias Bosshardt, Antony J. Lomax


2. Identification and Characterization of Transcriptome-based Biomarkers in Arthritis and Cancer for Personalized Medicine by Translational Genomics
Ashok R. Amin and Ge Wang


3. Approximate Stability Estimates in Inverse Transport Theory
Guillaume Bal and Alexandre Jollivet


4. General Resolvents for Monotone Operators: Characterization and Extension
Heinz H. Bauschke, Xianfu Wang, and Liangjin Yao


5. Clustering, Classification, and Contour Approximation of Data
Adi Ben-Israel and Cem Iyigun


6. Multi-Slice CT: Optimizing the Use of Intravenous Contrast Material
James A. Brink, M.D.


7. Statistical Iterative Reconstruction for X-Ray Computed Tomography
Bruno De Man and Jeffrey A. Fessler


8. On the Estimation of Motion-Induced Temporal Dose Variations in Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy Treatment Fields
Eric D. Ehler and Wolfgang A. Tomé


9. A Class of Iterative Methods: Semi-convergence, Stopping Rules, Inconsistency, and Constraining
Tommy Elfving, Touraj Nikazad, and Constantin Popa


10. Radiation Therapy Planning with a Given Set of Binary Matrices
Çigdem Güler and Horst W. Hamacher


11. Mathematical Theory for X-Ray Phase-Contrast Imaging with 2D Grating Interferometry
Ming Jiang and Ge Wang


12. An Approach to Motion Compensation in Tomography
Alexander Katsevich


13. Iterative Algorithms for the Multiple-Sets Split Feasibility Problem
Genaro López,Victoria Martín-Márquez, and Hong-Kun Xu


14. X-Ray Phase Imaging with Talbot Interferometry
Atsushi Momose, Wataru Yashiro, and Yoshihiro Takeda


15. Acoustic Imaging in 3D
Frank Natterer


16. Optimization of Physical and Biological Dose Distributions in Hadron Therapy
Uwe Oelfke, Joanne Kang, Daniel Pflugfelder, and Jan Jakob Wilkens


17. Block-Iterative and String-Averaging Projection Algorithms in Proton Computed Tomography Image Reconstruction
Scott N. Penfold, Reinhard W. Schulte, Yair Censor, Vladimir Bashkirov, Scott McAllister, Keith E. Schubert, and Anatoly B. Rosenfeld


18. Advanced Contrast Modalities for X-Ray Radiology: Phase-Contrast and Dark-Field Imaging Using a Grating Interferometer
Franz Pfeiffer, Martin Bech, Torben Jensen, Oliver Bunk, Tilman Donath, Christian David, Timm Weitkamp, Geraldine Le Duc, Alberto Bravin, and Peter Cloetens


19. Comparison of Some Reconstruction Schemes for Optical Tomography
Martin J. Schweiger and Simon R. Arridge


20. Seminorm-Induced Oblique Projections for Sparse Nonlinear Convex Feasibility Problems
Alexander Segal and Yair Censor


21. 3D Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging in Turbid Inhomogeneous Media by Using Time-Gated Data Acquisition
Vadim Y. Soloviev, Cosimo D’Andrea, Gianluca Valentini, Rinaldo Cubeddu, and Simon R. Arridge


22. Towards a New Paradigm for Radiation Treatment Planning
George Starkschall


23. Towards the Patient-Adaptive Approach to Risk Evaluation, Treatment Planning, and Delivery of Thoracic Radiotherapy
Alexei Trofimov, Cornelia Gansemer, Adam D.Yock, Christian Vrancic, Thomas Bortfeld, and Noah C. Choi


24. Imaging Biomarkers
Michael Vannier


25. Interior Tomography: Practical Applications
Ge Wang, Hengyong Yu,Yangbo Ye


26. Real-Time Imaging for Radiation Therapy Guidance
Rodney D.Wiersma ,Nadeem Riaz, and Lei Xing


27. Interior Tomography: Mathematical Analysis
Yangbo Ye, Hengyong Yu, Ge Wang