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Record W4411546408 · doi:10.1002/xrs.70002

Development of an In Vivo Bone Tungsten K‐X‐Ray Fluorescence Detection System

2025· article· en· W4411546408 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueX-Ray Spectrometry · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMedical Imaging Techniques and Applications
Canadian institutionsToronto Metropolitan UniversityUniversity of Toronto
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsTungstenIn vivoFluorescenceMaterials scienceChemistryOpticsPhysicsBiologyMetallurgyGenetics

Abstract

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ABSTRACT The versatility of tungsten (W) in electronics as well as in industrial and military applications has established it as one of the metals more present in our daily lives. Recent studies have highlighted its potential in the healthcare sector, including using sodium tungstate for anti‐diabetic treatment and W nanoparticles to enhance radiation therapy. With these expanding applications, W exposure to the public is increasing, necessitating the potential monitoring and investigation of W concentrations in humans. Tungsten exposure may lead to adverse health effects, such as pulmonary dysfunction, immune disorders, and cancer. In this study, we propose a design of an in vivo bone W K‐X‐ray Fluorescence diagnostic tool utilizing Monte Carlo modeling. Various excitation sources and detection geometries were explored to optimize the minimum detection limit and propose an effective diagnostic tool design. The modeling revealed that Cd or Co arranged in a 180° geometry exhibited a suitable detection limit and radiation dose for bone W quantification. However, the Cd excitation source arranged in a 180° geometry between the detector and bone is selected. Moreover, we investigated the normalization of W bone signals to enhance the clinical robustness of the diagnostic tool. Different normalization techniques were considered, including coherent, total spectrum, and Compton normalizations. It was demonstrated that Compton normalization outperformed coherent and total spectrum normalizations in correcting for the soft tissue thickness and different bone radii during the K‐XRF‐based quantification of W in human bone, with a variation from the mean value ≤ 10%.

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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)0.000
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: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.146
Threshold uncertainty score0.405

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
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

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Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.284
Teacher spread0.273 · 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