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  1. Rapid switching kVp dual energy CT: Value of reconstructed dual energy CT images and organ dose assessment in multiphasic liver CT exams

    Article • European Journal of Radiology, May 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  2. Technical Note: Scintillation well counters and particle counting digital autoradiography devices can be used to detect activities associated with genomic profiling adequacy of biopsy specimens obtained after a low activity 18 F-FDG injection

    Article • Medical Physics, March 2018, Wiley

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  3. Evaluation of the tumor registration error in biopsy procedures performed under real-time PET/CT guidance

    Article • Medical Physics, July 2017, Wiley

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  4. Toward a standard for the evaluation of PET-Auto-Segmentation methods following the recommendations of AAPM task group No. 211: Requirements and implementation

    Article • Medical Physics, July 2017, Wiley

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  5. Preconditioned alternating projection algorithm for solving the penalized-likelihood SPECT reconstruction problem

    Article • Physica Medica, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  6. Classification and evaluation strategies of auto-segmentation approaches for PET: Report of AAPM task group No. 211

    Article • Medical Physics, May 2017, Wiley

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  7. Investigating the Robustness Neighborhood Gray Tone Difference Matrix and Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix Radiomic Features on Clinical Computed Tomography Systems Using Anthropomorphic Phantoms

    Article • Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, January 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  8. Initial performance studies of a wearable brain positron emission tomography camera based on autonomous thin-film digital Geiger avalanche photodiode arrays

    Article • Journal of Medical Imaging, November 2016, SPIE

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  9. Dynamic PET simulator via tomographic emission projection for kinetic modeling and parametric image studies

    Article • Medical Physics, May 2016, Wiley

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  10. Performance modeling of a wearable brain PET (BET) camera

    Article • March 2016, SPIE

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  11. FDG-PET/CT of non-small cell lung carcinoma under neo-adjuvant chemotherapy: background based adaptive volume metrics outperform TLG and MTV in predicting histopathological response

    Article • Journal of Nuclear Medicine, January 2016, Society of Nuclear Medicine

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  12. A novel metric for quantification of homogeneous and heterogeneous tumors in PET for enhanced clinical outcome prediction

    Article • Physics in Medicine and Biology, December 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  13. PETSTEP: Generation of synthetic PET lesions for fast evaluation of segmentation methods

    Article • Physica Medica, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  14. Effective noise-suppressed and artifact-reduced reconstruction of SPECT data using a preconditioned alternating projection algorithm

    Article • Medical Physics, August 2015, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  15. TU-G-204-02: Automatic Sclerotic Bone Metastases Detection in the Pelvic Region From Dual Energy CT

    Article • Medical Physics, June 2015, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  16. EP-1522: PETSTEP: generation of synthetic PET lesions for fast evaluation of segmentation methods

    Article • Radiotherapy and Oncology, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  17. SPECT reconstruction using DCT-induced tight framelet regularization

    Article • March 2015, SPIE

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  18. Feasibility of In Situ, High-Resolution Correlation of Tracer Uptake with Histopathology by Quantitative Autoradiography of Biopsy Specimens Obtained Under 18F-FDG PET/CT Guidance

    Article • Journal of Nuclear Medicine, February 2015, Society of Nuclear Medicine

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  19. A Monte Carlo Study of the Dependence of Early Frame Sampling on Uncertainty and Bias in Pharmacokinetic Parameters from Dynamic PET

    Article • Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology, January 2015, Society of Nuclear Medicine

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  20. Compartment modeling of dynamic brain PET—The impact of scatter corrections on parameter errors

    Article • Medical Physics, November 2014, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  21. Image quality comparison of reconstruction using total variation-based regularizers

    Article • November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  22. A generalized total effective entrapment metric (gTEE) to quantify burden of homogeneous and heterogeneous tumors in PET imaging for enhanced clinical outcome prediction

    Article • November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  23. Assessing and accounting for the impact of respiratory motion on FDG uptake and viable volume for liver lesions in free-breathing PET using respiration-suspended PET images as reference

    Article • Medical Physics, September 2014, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  24. Spatially Accurate Ground Truth for PET Segmentation Verification From Biopsy Specimens Extracted Under PET/CT Guidance

    Article • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, September 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  25. TU-A-12A-08: Computing Longitudinal Material Changes in Bone Metastases Using Dual Energy Computed Tomography

    Article • Medical Physics, June 2014, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  26. SU-E-QI-03: Compartment Modeling of Dynamic Brain PET - The Effect of Scatter and Random Corrections On Parameter Errors

    Article • Medical Physics, June 2014, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  27. MO-G-17A-07: Improved Image Quality in Brain F-18 FDG PET Using Penalized-Likelihood Image Reconstruction Via a Generalized Preconditioned Alternating Projection Algorithm: The First Patient Results

    Article • Medical Physics, June 2014, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  28. MO-G-17A-09: Quantitative Autoradiography of Biopsy Specimens Extracted Under PET/CT Guidance

    Article • Medical Physics, June 2014, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  29. TH-C-18A-02: Machine Learning and STAPLE Based Simultaneous Longitudinal Segmentation of Bone and Marrow Structures From Dual Energy CT

    Article • Medical Physics, June 2014, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  30. PET quantification with a histogram derived total activity metric: Superior quantitative consistency compared to total lesion glycolysis with absolute or relative SUV thresholds in phantoms and lung cancer patients

    Article • Nuclear Medicine and Biology, May 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  31. How to assess background activity

    Article • Nuclear Medicine Communications, March 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  32. PD-0418: Development of a software platform for evaluating automatic PET segmentation methods

    Article • Radiotherapy and Oncology, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  33. Automatic Bone and Marrow Extraction from Dual Energy CT through SVM Margin-Based Multi-Material Decomposition Model Selection

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  34. SU‐D‐500‐02: Liver Tumor Volume Determination by PET Using Ventilator Suspended Respiration

    Article • Medical Physics, June 2013, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  35. The influence of time sampling scheme on kinetic parameters obtained from compartmental modeling of a dynamic PET study - A Monte Carlo study

    Article • October 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  36. Quantitative Modeling of Cerenkov Light Production Efficiency from Medical Radionuclides

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2012, PLOS

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  37. Influence of photon energy cuts on PET Monte Carlo simulation results

    Article • Medical Physics, January 2012, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  38. [18F]FDG-Positron Emission Tomography Coregistration With Computed Tomography Scans for Radiation Treatment Planning of Lymphoma and Hematologic Malignancies

    Article • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, November 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  39. Estimating radiation effective doses from whole body computed tomography scans based on U.S. soldier patient height and weight

    Article • BMC Medical Imaging, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  40. SU-D-110-03: A New Phantom Allowing Realistic Non-Uniform Activity Distributions for PET Quantification

    Article • Medical Physics, January 2011, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  41. A Prospective Study of 18FDG-PET with CT scan Co-registration for Radiation Treatment Planning of Lymphoma and Hematologic Malignancies

    Article • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  42. Using an external gating signal to estimate noise in PET with an emphasis on tracer avid tumors

    Article • Physics in Medicine and Biology, October 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  43. Detecting visual differences in reconstructed images using a region-based test for outliers

    Article • October 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  44. TH‐C‐202‐01: Positron Emission Tomography Imaging: Basic Nuclear Imaging Physics

    Article • Medical Physics, June 2010, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  45. Pharmacokinetic Assessment of the Uptake of 16 -18F-Fluoro-5 -Dihydrotestosterone (FDHT) in Prostate Tumors as Measured by PET

    Article • Journal of Nuclear Medicine, January 2010, Society of Nuclear Medicine

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  46. A Monte Carlo Simulation of PET of a Real Patient with GATE

    Article • January 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  47. A GATE Simulation of a GE Discovery LS PET Scanner with NEMA Image Quality Phantom

    Article • January 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  48. Evaluation of a compartmental model for estimating tumor hypoxia via FMISO dynamic PET imaging

    Article • Physics in Medicine and Biology, May 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  49. SU-DD-A4-01: The Estimation of the Uncertainty of Activity Concentrations in PET Images

    Article • Medical Physics, January 2009, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  50. An iterative technique to segment PET lesions using a Monte Carlo based mathematical model

    Article • Medical Physics, January 2009, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  51. SU-FF-I-147: Monte Carlo Based Evaluation of 3D PET Quantification Inaccuracy for the Lung

    Article • Medical Physics, January 2009, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  52. Partial volume effect correction in PET using regularized iterative deconvolution with variance control based on local topology

    Article • Physics in Medicine and Biology, April 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  53. TH-C-351-07: Partial Volume Effect Correction in PET Using Regularized Iterative Deconvolution with Variance Control Based On Local Topology

    Article • Medical Physics, January 2008, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  54. Dosimetric and anatomic indicators of late rectal toxicity after high-dose intensity modulated radiation therapy for prostate cancer

    Article • Medical Physics, January 2008, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  55. TH-C-351-06: Evaluation of a Compartmental Model for Estimating Tumor Hypoxia Via FMISO Dynamic PET Imaging

    Article • Medical Physics, January 2008, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  56. 18FDG-PET With CT Scan Co-Registration for Radiation Treatment Planning of Lymphoma Patients

    Article • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, November 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  57. Spatial and Anatomical Indicators of Rectal Toxicity in IMRT of Prostate Cancer

    Article • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, November 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  58. Evolution of the GATE project: new results and developments

    Article • Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, October 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  59. PET quantification inaccuracy of non-uniform tracer distributions for radiation therapy

    Article • January 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  60. Comparative evaluation of two commercial PET scanners, ECAT EXACT HR+ and Biograph 2, using GATE

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, December 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  61. SU-FF-I-54: A Monte Carlo Model of the Discovery ST PET Scanner

    Article • Medical Physics, January 2006, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  62. SU-FF-J-83: Inaccuracy of Fixed Threshold Segmentation for PET

    Article • Medical Physics, January 2006, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  63. Validation of GATE Monte Carlo simulations of the GE Advance/Discovery LS PET scanners

    Article • Medical Physics, January 2006, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  64. Precise radiochromic film dosimetry using a flat-bed document scanner

    Article • Medical Physics, January 2005, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  65. SU-EE-A4-03: Validation of GATE Monte Carlo Simulations of the Noise Equivalent Count Rate and Image Quailty for the GE Discovery LS PET Scanner

    Article • Medical Physics, January 2005, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein

  66. GATE: a simulation toolkit for PET and SPECT

    Article • Physics in Medicine and Biology, September 2004, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Charles Ross Schmidtlein