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Record W2892999604 · doi:10.4103/jmp.jmp_141_17

Monte Carlo simulation on the imaging contrast enhancement in nanoparticle-enhanced radiotherapy

2018· article· en· W2892999604 on OpenAlex
JamesC. L. Chow, Ferdos Albayedh

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Medical Physics · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicRadiation Therapy and Dosimetry
Canadian institutionsToronto Metropolitan UniversityPrincess Margaret Cancer CentreUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsImaging phantomMaterials scienceContrast ratioContrast (vision)Monte Carlo methodNanoparticleColloidal goldIodinePlatinumNanotechnologyOpticsOptoelectronicsChemistryPhysicsMathematics

Abstract

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This study focused on the imaging in radiotherapy by finding the relationship between the imaging contrast ratio and appropriate gold, iodine, iron oxide, silver, and platinum nanoparticle concentrations; the relationship between the imaging contrast ratio and different beam energies for the different nanoparticle concentrations; the relationship between the contrast ratio and various beam energies for gold nanoparticles; and the relationship between the contrast ratio and different thicknesses of the incident layer of the phantom including variety of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) concentration. Monte Carlo simulation was used to model the gold, iodine, iron oxide, silver, and platinum nanoparticle concentration which were infused within a heterogeneous phantom (50 cm × 50 cm × 10.5 cm) choosing different concentrations (3, 7, 18, 30, and 40 mg), and beams (100, 120, 130, and 140 kVp) correspondingly that were delivered into the phantom. The results showed obvious connection between the high concentration and having a high imaging contrast ratio, low energy and a high contrast ratio, small thickness, and a high contrast ratio. The superior nanoparticle obtained was GNP, the better concentration was 40 mg, the better beam energy was 100 kVp, and the better thickness was 0.5 cm. It is concluded that our study successfully proved that medical imaging contrast could be improved by increasing the contrast ratio using GNP as the finest choice to accomplish this improvement considering a high concentration, low beam energy, and a small thickness.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.782
Threshold uncertainty score0.315

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.329
Teacher spread0.311 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it