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

    Article • Physica Medica, August 2025, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  2. 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

  3. 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

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

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

    dr Francesco Ria

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

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

    Article • April 2024, SPIE

    dr Francesco Ria

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Abstract

    Article • Medical Physics, June 2023, Wiley

    dr Francesco Ria

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

    Article • Tomography, April 2023, MDPI AG

    dr Francesco Ria

  16. 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

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

    Article • European Journal of Radiology, October 2022, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

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

    Article • Medical Physics, June 2022, Wiley

    dr Francesco Ria

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

    Article • April 2022, SPIE

    dr Francesco Ria, Ehsan Abadi

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

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

    Article • Medical Physics, July 2020, Wiley

    dr Francesco Ria

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

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

    dr Francesco Ria

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

    Article • March 2020, SPIE

    dr Francesco Ria, Ehsan Abadi

  33. 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

  34. CT Practice Monitoring

    Article • November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr Francesco Ria

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

    Article • Medical Physics, August 2019, Wiley

    Ehsan Abadi, dr Francesco Ria

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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

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

    Article • March 2017, SPIE

    dr Francesco Ria

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

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

    dr Francesco Ria

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

    Article • Medical Physics, June 2016, Wiley

    dr Francesco Ria

  43. 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

  44. 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

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

    Article • Physica Medica, February 2016, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

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

    Article • Physica Medica, February 2016, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  47. Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article • Clinical Oncology, May 2015, Elsevier

    dr Francesco Ria

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. 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