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  1. The Accuracy of Noise Measurements in Patient CT Images

    Article • Academic Radiology, August 2026, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  2. Patients prefer ChatGPT to institutional websites for questions on radiation-based imaging exams: international mixed-methods study

    Article • Radiology Advances, July 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    dr Francesco Ria

  3. Systems of Digital Twins: A Systematic Literature Review and a formal framework

    Article • Digital Engineering, May 2026, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  4. Transcriptome analysis of the prefrontal cortex identifies inflammatory genes associated with cognitive impairment in a model of multiple sclerosis

    Article • Cell Death Discovery, March 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr Francesco Ria

  5. CT Stewardship: Risk, Value, and Diagnostic Integrity

    Article • American Journal of Roentgenology, February 2026, American Roentgen Ray Society

    dr Francesco Ria

  6. Intraindividual Comparison of Half‐Dose Gadopiclenol and Standard‐Dose Gadobenate Dimeglumine for Contrast‐Enhanced Abdominal MRI

    Article • Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, January 2026, Wiley

    dr Francesco Ria

  7. Correlation of Automated in Vivo Image Quality With Radiologist’s Performance in Abdomen Computed Tomography Across Conventional and Deep Learning Reconstructions

    Article • Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, January 2026, Wolters Kluwer Health

    dr Francesco Ria

  8. Patient-specific organ dose and in-vivo image quality assessment in clinical CT

    Article • Physica Medica, August 2025, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  9. Variability in patient CT radiation dose and image quality: the impact of positioning and body habitus via a virtual imaging trial study

    Article • April 2025, SPIE

    dr Francesco Ria

  10. ChatGPT versus Radiology Institutional Websites: What Is the Patients' Point of View?

    Article • Radiology, February 2025, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

    dr Francesco Ria

  11. Before We Trust: Concerns for Using ChatGPT in Medical Communication

    Article • Radiology, January 2025, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

    dr Francesco Ria

  12. Optimization of abdominal CT based on a model of total risk minimization by putting radiation risk in perspective with imaging benefit

    Article • Communications Medicine, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr Francesco Ria

  13. Virtual imaging trials in medicine: A brief takeaway of the lessons from the first international summit

    Article • Medical Physics, December 2024, Wiley

    dr Francesco Ria, Prof Alejandro F Frangi

  14. Development and Clinical Evaluation of a Contrast Optimizer for Contrast-Enhanced CT Imaging of the Liver

    Article • Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, November 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

    dr Francesco Ria

  15. ChatGPT versus Radiology Institutional Websites: Comparative Analysis of Radiation Protection Information Provided to Patients

    Article • Radiology, June 2024, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

    dr Francesco Ria

  16. Technology Characterization Through Diverse Evaluation Methodologies: Application to Thoracic Imaging in Photon-Counting Computed Tomography

    Article • Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, April 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

    dr Francesco Ria

  17. Performance assessment of photon counting versus energy integrated CT: concordance of in vivo and phantom measurements

    Article • April 2024, SPIE

    dr Francesco Ria

  18. Characterizing imaging radiation risk in a population of 8918 patients with recurrent imaging for a better effective dose

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr Francesco Ria

  19. Myelography Using Energy-Integrating Detector CT Versus Photon-Counting Detector CT for Detection of CSF-Venous Fistulas in Patients With Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension

    Article • American Journal of Roentgenology, January 2024, American Roentgen Ray Society

    dr Francesco Ria

  20. Image quality of photon counting and energy integrating chest CT – Prospective head-to-head comparison on same patients

    Article • European Journal of Radiology, September 2023, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  21. Abstract

    Article • Medical Physics, June 2023, Wiley

    dr Francesco Ria

  22. Making CT Dose Monitoring Meaningful: Augmenting Dose with Imaging Quality

    Article • Tomography, April 2023, MDPI AG

    dr Francesco Ria

  23. Comparative Assessment of the Absorbed Doses Resulted from Occupational Exposure and Computed Tomography

    Article • Medical Radiology and radiation safety, February 2023, All-Russian Centre for Disaster Medicine “Zaschita” of Health Ministry of the RF

    dr Francesco Ria

  24. A patient-informed approach to predict iodinated-contrast media enhancement in the liver

    Article • European Journal of Radiology, October 2022, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  25. Dose coefficients for organ dosimetry in tomosynthesis imaging of adults and pediatrics across diverse protocols

    Article • Medical Physics, June 2022, Wiley

    dr Francesco Ria

  26. Comparing two different noise magnitude estimation methods in CT using virtual imaging trials

    Article • April 2022, SPIE

    dr Francesco Ria, Ehsan Abadi

  27. Organ doses and cancer risk assessment in patients exposed to high doses from recurrent CT exams

    Article • European Journal of Radiology, April 2022, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  28. Statement of the Italian Association of Medical Physics (AIFM) task group on radiation dose monitoring systems

    Article • Insights into Imaging, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr Francesco Ria

  29. Deep learning classification of COVID-19 in chest radiographs: performance and influence of supplemental training

    Article • Journal of Medical Imaging, December 2021, SPIE

    dr Francesco Ria

  30. Patient-Informed Organ Dose Estimation in Clinical CT: Implementation and Effective Dose Assessment in 1048 Clinical Patients

    Article • American Journal of Roentgenology, March 2021, American Roentgen Ray Society

    dr Francesco Ria

  31. Comparison of 12 surrogates to characterize CT radiation risk across a clinical population

    Article • European Radiology, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr Francesco Ria

  32. Classification of COVID-19 in chest radiographs: assessing the impact of imaging parameters using clinical and simulated images

    Article • February 2021, SPIE

    dr Francesco Ria, Ehsan Abadi

  33. Estimation of in vivo noise in clinical CT images: comparison and validation of three different methods against ensemble noise gold-standard

    Article • February 2021, SPIE

    dr Francesco Ria

  34. Structured mentorship program for the ABR international medical graduates alternate pathway for medical physicists in diagnostic imaging

    Article • Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, January 2021, Wiley

    dr Francesco Ria

  35. Modeling Patient-Informed Liver Contrast Perfusion in Contrast-enhanced Computed Tomography

    Article • Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, November 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

    dr Francesco Ria

  36. A comparison of COVID-19 and imaging radiation risk in clinical patient populations

    Article • Journal of Radiological Protection, October 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    dr Francesco Ria

  37. A database of 40 patient‐based computational models for benchmarking organ dose estimates in CT

    Article • Medical Physics, July 2020, Wiley

    dr Francesco Ria

  38. Is regulatory compliance enough to ensure excellence in medicine?

    Article • La radiologia medica, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr Francesco Ria

  39. Patient-informed modelling of hepatic contrast dynamics in contrast-enhanced CT imaging

    Article • March 2020, SPIE

    dr Francesco Ria, Ehsan Abadi

  40. Technical Note: Validation of TG 233 phantom methodology to characterize noise and dose in patient CT data

    Article • Medical Physics, February 2020, Wiley

    dr Francesco Ria

  41. CT Practice Monitoring

    Article • November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr Francesco Ria

  42. Validation of Algorithmic CT Image Quality Metrics with Preferences of Radiologists

    Article • Medical Physics, August 2019, Wiley

    Ehsan Abadi, dr Francesco Ria

  43. Organ Doses from CT Localizer Radiographs: Development, Validation, and Application of a Monte Carlo Estimation Technique

    Article • Medical Physics, August 2019, Wiley

    dr Francesco Ria

  44. Expanding the Concept of Diagnostic Reference Levels to Noise and Dose Reference Levels in CT

    Article • American Journal of Roentgenology, June 2019, American Roentgen Ray Society

    dr Francesco Ria

  45. Awareness of medical radiation exposure among patients: A patient survey as a first step for effective communication of ionizing radiation risks

    Article • Physica Medica, November 2017, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  46. Image noise and dose performance across a clinical population: Patient size adaptation as a metric of CT performance

    Article • Medical Physics, April 2017, Wiley

    dr Francesco Ria

  47. Adaptability index: quantifying CT tube current modulation performance from dose and quality informatics

    Article • March 2017, SPIE

    dr Francesco Ria

  48. Study to Define Frequency in Routine Analytical Controls in the Radiolabelling Process

    Article • OALib, January 2017, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    dr Francesco Ria

  49. SU-F-I-48: Variability in CT Scanning Over-Range Across Clinical Operation

    Article • Medical Physics, June 2016, Wiley

    dr Francesco Ria

  50. PO-0857: GTV-based prescription and Monte Carlo treatment planning in Cyberknife treatments for lung lesions

    Article • Radiotherapy and Oncology, April 2016, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  51. 102P: Ablative robotic radiosurgery for inoperable patients with stage IA–IB non small cell lung cancer

    Article • Journal of Thoracic Oncology, April 2016, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  52. Monte Carlo-corrected GTV dose prescription on lung tumors treated with Cyberknife: A possible recipe

    Article • Physica Medica, February 2016, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  53. Application of the EUREF protocol for acceptance test of three digital breast tomosynthesis systems

    Article • Physica Medica, February 2016, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  54. Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article • Clinical Oncology, May 2015, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  55. Risk Assessment and Economic Impact Analysis of the Implementation of New European Legislation on Radiopharmaceuticals in Italy: The Case of the New Monograph Chapter Compounding of Radiopharmaceuticals (PHARMEUROPA, Vol. 23, No. 4, October 2011)

    Article • Current Radiopharmaceuticals, January 2014, Bentham Science Publishers

    dr Francesco Ria

  56. 98P LONG TERM FOLLOW UP OF PATIENTS TREATED WITH CYBERKNIFE STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY FOR OLIGOMETASTATIC LUNG CANCER

    Article • Lung Cancer, May 2013, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  57. PO-0776: Output factors measurements with radiochromic films for small fields on a Cyberknife unit

    Article • Radiotherapy and Oncology, March 2013, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  58. Distinct and Non-Overlapping T Cell Receptor Repertoires Expanded by DNA Vaccination in Wild-Type and HER-2 Transgenic BALB/c Mice

    Article • The Journal of Immunology, December 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    dr Francesco Ria

  59. Suppression of established experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and formation of meningeal lymphoid follicles by lymphotoxin β receptor-Ig fusion protein

    Article • Journal of Neuroimmunology, October 2006, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  60. Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the adjuvant modulates the balance of Th immune response to self-antigen of the CNS without influencing a “core” repertoire of specific T cells

    Article • International Immunology, January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    dr Francesco Ria

  61. Immune response at birth, long-term immune memory and 2 years follow-up after in-utero anti-HBV DNA immunization

    Article • Gene Therapy, March 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr Francesco Ria

  62. Selection of Similar Naive T Cell Repertoires but Induction of Distinct T Cell Responses by Native and Modified Antigen

    Article • The Journal of Immunology, March 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    dr Francesco Ria

  63. The level of manganese superoxide dismutase content is an independent prognostic factor for glioblastoma. Biological mechanisms and clinical implications

    Article • British Journal of Cancer, January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr Francesco Ria