2024
Medical Physics
Peer-reviewed journals:
- Abolfath, R., Afshordi, N., Rahvar, S., van Duin, A.C.T., Rädler, M., Taleei, R., Parodi, K., Lascaud, J. and Mohan, R. (2024). A molecular dynamics simulation framework for investigating ionizing radiation-induced nano-bubble interactions at ultra-high dose rates. The European Physical Journal D, 78(11) https//doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-024-00928-1
- Ballarini, F. and others (2024). The FLUKA code: Overview and new developments. EPJ Nuclear Sci. Technol., 10 https//doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2024015
- Ballhausen, H., Corradini, S., Belka, C., Bogdanov, D., Boldrini, L., Bono, F., Goelz, C., Landry, G., Panza, G., Parodi, K., Talviste, R., Tran, H.E., Gambacorta, M.A. and Marschner, S. (2024). Privacy-friendly evaluation of patient data with secure multiparty computation in a European pilot study. npj Digital Medicine, 7(1), 280. https//doi.org/10.1038/s41746-024-01293-4
- Binder, T.M., Zhou, Y.J., Kamada, K., Parodi, K., Safari, M.J., Schneider, F.R., Wiest, F., Zoglauer, A. and Thirolf, P.G. (2024). The Performance of the New KETEK Low-Noise SiPM Array Series: Characterization in a Compton Camera Study. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 71(3), 334-341. https//doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2024.3365856
- Blöcker, T., Lombardo, E., Marschner, S.N., Belka, C., Corradini, S., Palacios, M.A., Riboldi, M., Kurz, C. and Landry, G. (2024). MRgRT real-time target localization using foundation models for contour point tracking and promptable mask refinement.. Physics in medicine and biology, 70 https//doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ad9dad
- Chacon, A., Rutherford, H., Hamato, A., Nitta, M., Nishikido, F., Iwao, Y., Tashima, H., Yoshida, E., Akamatsu, G., Takyu, S., Kang, H.G., Franklin, D.R., Parodi, K., Yamaya, T., Rosenfeld, A., Guatelli, S. and Safavi-Naeini, M. (2024). A quantitative assessment of Geant4 for predicting the yield and distribution of positron-emitting fragments in ion beam therapy. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 69(12), 125015. https//doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ad4f48
- Chan, Y.C.I., Li, M., Thummerer, A., Parodi, K., Belka, C., Kurz, C. and Landry, G. (2024). Minimum imaging dose for deep learning-based pelvic synthetic computed tomography generation from cone beam images. Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology, 30, 100569. https//doi.org/10.1016/j.phro.2024.100569
- Dedes, G., Dickmann, J., Giacometti, V., Rit, S., Krah, N., Meyer, S., Bashkirov, V., Schulte, R., Johnson, R.P., Parodi, K. and Landry, G. (2024). Erratum to “The role of Monte Carlo simulation in understanding the performance of proton computed tomography” [Z Med Phys 32 (2022) 23–38]. Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik, , S0939388924000801. https//doi.org/10.1016/j.zemedi.2024.07.012
- Fogazzi, E., Hu, G., Bruzzi, M., Farace, P., Kröncke, T., Niepel, K., Ricke, J., Risch, F., Sabel, B., Scaringella, M., Schwarz, F., Tommasino, F., Landry, G., Civinini, C. and Parodi, K. (2024). A direct comparison of multi-energy x-ray and proton CT for imaging and relative stopping power estimation of plastic and ex-vivo phantoms. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 69(17), 175021. https//doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ad70ef
- Gianoli, C., De Bernardi, E. and Parodi, K. (2023). “Under the hood”: artificial intelligence in personalized radiotherapy. BJRtextbarOpen, 6(1), tzae017. https//doi.org/10.1093/bjro/tzae017
- Huang, L., Kurz, C., Freislederer, P., Manapov, F., Corradini, S., Niyazi, M., Belka, C., Landry, G. and Riboldi, M. (2024). Simultaneous object detection and segmentation for patient-specific markerless lung tumor tracking in simulated radiographs with deep learning. Medical Physics, 51(3), 1957-1973. https//doi.org/10.1002/mp.16705
- Huang, Z., Tian, L., Janssens, G., Smeets, J., Xie, Y., Kevin Teo, B.-K., Nilsson, R., Traneus, E., Parodi, K. and Pinto, M. (2024). An experimental validation of a filtering approach for prompt gamma prediction in a research proton treatment planning system. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 69(15), 155025. https//doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ad6116
- Lombardo, E., Dhont, J., Page, D., Garibaldi, C., Künzel, L.A., Hurkmans, C., Tijssen, R.H., Paganelli, C., Liu, P.Z., Keall, P.J., Riboldi, M., Kurz, C., Landry, G., Cusumano, D., Fusella, M. and Placidi, L. (2024). Real-time motion management in MRI-guided radiotherapy: Current status and AI-enabled prospects. Radiotherapy and Oncology, 190, 109970. https//doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2023.109970
- Lombardo, E., Velezmoro, L., Marschner, S.N., Rabe, M., Tejero, C., Papadopoulou, C.I., Sui, Z., Reiner, M., Corradini, S., Belka, C., Kurz, C., Riboldi, M. and Landry, G. (2024). Patient-specific deep learning tracking framework for real-time 2D target localization in MRI-guided radiotherapy. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, , S0360301624035089. https//doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2024.10.021
- Niepel, K., Tattenberg, S., Marants, R., Hu, G., Bortfeld, T., Verburg, J., Sudhyadhom, A., Landry, G. and Parodi, K. (2024). Validation of dual-energy CT-based composition analysis using fresh animal tissues and composition-optimized tissue equivalent samples. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 69(16), 165033. https//doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ad68bc
- Nierer, L., Kamp, F., Reiner, M., Corradini, S., Rabe, M., Dietrich, O., Parodi, K., Belka, C., Kurz, C. and Landry, G. (2024). Erratum to “Evaluation of an anthropomorphic ion chamber and 3D gel dosimetry head phantom at a 0.35 T MR-linac using separate 1.5 T MR-scanners for gel readout” [Z Med. Phys. 32 (2022) 312–325]. Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik, , S0939388924000539. https//doi.org/10.1016/j.zemedi.2024.07.002
- Palaniappan, P., Knudsen, Y., Meyer, S., Gianoli, C., Schnürle, K., Würl, M., Bortfeldt, J., Parodi, K. and Riboldi, M. (2024). Multi-stage image registration based on list-mode proton radiographies for small animal proton irradiation: A simulation study.. Zeitschrift fur medizinische Physik, 34, 521-532. https//doi.org/10.1016/j.zemedi.2023.04.003
- Parodi, K. (2024). Expanding the scope and launching new initiatives in PMB.. Physics in medicine and biology, 69 https//doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ad548b
- Radonic, D., Xiao, F., Wahl, N., Voss, L., Neishabouri, A., Delopoulos, N., Marschner, S., Corradini, S., Belka, C., Dedes, G., Kurz, C. and Landry, G. (2024). Proton dose calculation with LSTM networks in presence of a magnetic field. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 69(21), 215019. https//doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ad7f1e
- Sui, Z., Palaniappan, P., Brenner, J., Paganelli, C., Kurz, C., Landry, G. and Riboldi, M. (2024). Intra-frame motion deterioration effects and deep-learning-based compensation in MR-guided radiotherapy. Medical Physics, 51(3), 1899-1917. https//doi.org/10.1002/mp.16702
- Sui, Z., Palaniappan, P., Paganelli, C., Kurz, C., Landry, G. and Riboldi, M. (2024). Imaging error reduction in radial cine-MRI with deep learning-based intra-frame motion compensation. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 69 https//doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ad8831
- Vasic, V., Parodi, K. and Pinto, M. (2024). Evaluating an analytical prediction algorithm of positron emitter distributions in patient data for PET monitoring of carbon ion therapy: A simulation study. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 213, 111479. https//doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2024.111479
- Wang, Y., Lombardo, E., Huang, L., Avanzo, M., Fanetti, G., Franchin, G., Zschaeck, S., Weingärtner, J., Belka, C., Riboldi, M., Kurz, C. and Landry, G. (2024). Comparison of deep learning networks for fully automated head and neck tumor delineation on multi-centric PET/CT images. Radiation Oncology, 19(1), 3. https//doi.org/10.1186/s13014-023-02388-0
- Wei, C., Albrecht, J., Rit, S., Laurendeau, M., Thummerer, A., Corradini, S., Belka, C., Steininger, P., Ginzinger, F., Kurz, C., Riboldi, M. and Landry, G. (2024). Reduction of cone-beam CT artifacts in a robotic CBCT device using saddle trajectories with integrated infrared tracking. Medical Physics, , mp.16943. https//doi.org/10.1002/mp.16943
- Xiao, F., Radonic, D., Kriechbaum, M., Wahl, N., Neishabouri, A., Delopoulos, N., Parodi, K., Corradini, S., Belka, C., Kurz, C., Landry, G. and Dedes, G. (2024). Prompt gamma emission prediction using a long short-term memory network. Physics in Medicine & Biology, https//doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ad8e2a
Laser-Ion-Acceleration
Peer-reviewed journals:
- Rösch, T.F., Afshari, M., Balling, F., Doyle, L., Gerlach, S., Hartmann, J., Prasselsperger, A., Morris, S. and Schreiber, J. (2024). Transverse emittance growth of proton sources from laser-irradiated sub- μ m-thin planar targets. Physical Review E, 109(2), 025201. https//doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.025201
Abstracts and conference proceedings:
Nuclear Physics
Peer-reviewed journals:
- Thirolf, P.G., Kraemer, S., Moritz, D. and Scharl, K. (2024). The thorium isomer 29mTh: review of status and perspectives after more than 50 years of research. The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 233(5), 1113-1131. https//doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-024-01098-2
- Thirolf, P.G., Kraemer, S. and Weitenberg, J. (2024). Mehr als ein hochgenauer Zeitmesser: Thorium-229-Kernuhren für ultragenaue Zeitmessung und Quantensensorik. Physik in unserer Zeit, 55(4), 176-182. https//doi.org/10.1002/piuz.202301696
- Zhang, C., Ooi, T., Higgins, J.S., Doyle, J.F., Von Der Wense, L., Beeks, K., Leitner, A., Kazakov, G.A., Li, P., Thirolf, P.G., Schumm, T. and Ye, J. (2024). Frequency ratio of the 229mTh nuclear isomeric transition and the 87Sr atomic clock. Nature, 633(8028), 63-70. https//doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07839-6
Abstracts and conference proceedings:
Outreach article:
Detector Development and High Energy Physics
Peer-reviewed journals:
- Kallitsopoulou, A., Aleksan, R., Angelis, Y., Aune, S., Bortfeldt, J., et al. (2024). PICOSEC-Micromegas Detector, an innovative solution for Lepton Time Tagging. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1069, 169920. https//doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2024.169920
- Lisowska, M., Aleksan, R., Angelis, Y., Aune, S., Bortfeldt, J., et al. (2025). Photocathode characterisation for robust PICOSEC Micromegas precise-timing detectors. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1072, 170151. https//doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2024.170151
Abstracts and conference proceedings:
- Precise charged particle timing with robust PICOSEC Micromegas detectors; F.M. Brunbauer, Y. Angelis, S. Aune, J. Bortfeldt, et al.; 2024 IEEE NSS, MIC and RTSD
Books and Book Chapters
Books
Bookchapter
Thesis Works
PhD:
Master Thesis (internal):
Timo Pohle: Investigation of the temperature dependency of acoustic waves generated by laser plasmas and localized heating in water around 4°C
Sebastian Schinzel: R&D for a Scintillator Based Range Telescope for Clinical Proton Computed Tomography
Domagoj Radonic: Deep Learning-Based Approach For Dose Calculation in Context of MR-guided Proton Therapy
Bachelor Thesis (internal):
Pauline Hoffer: Improvement of the Calibration of the Proton CT Phase II Scanner
Levon Satzger: Analyse und Optimierung der Strahlmonitorkammer der SIRMIO Plattform
Daniela Krizanac: Fertigstellung der Zeitprojektionskammer des SIRMIO Proton-Computertomographie Systems
Lukas Ibel: Untersuchung und Charakterisierung eines Micromegas-Detektors für ein klinisches Protonen-Computertomographie-System
Martin Emmer: Bau eines portablen, rezirkulierenden Gassystems für Micromegas-Detektoren
Noel Ruhland: Investigations on the Stability of Petawatt Class Laser's Wavefront
Paul Schäfer: Attenuation of a Petawatt Class Laser System
Sonja Borovica: Development of a Spectrum and Energy Diagnostic for a Titanium Sapphire Amplifier
Robin Hornung: Development of an Active Laser Beam Stabilisation System
Lukas Willich: Acoustic properties of Solids - Analysis of a Simplified Experiments Set-up
Master Thesis (external):