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BMC Medical Physics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of medical physics, including radiobiology, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, imaging, photomedicine and physiological measurement.
BMC Medical Physics (ISSN 1756-6649) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, CAS and Google Scholar.
BMC Medical Physics 2009, 9 :6
Chromosome 2 may be more sensitive to radiation-induced damage than chromosome 1 during both interphase and metaphase; use of radiosensitivity differences has implications for radiation-induced health risk assessment.
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Differential radio-sensitivities of human chromosomes 1 and 2 in one donor in interphase- and metaphase-spreads after 60 Co Rupak Pathak, Adarsh Ramakumar, Uma Subramanian, Pataje GS Prasanna BMC Medical Physics 2009, 9 :6 (16 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Prognostic implication of late gadolinium enhancement on cardiac MRI in light chain (AL) amyloidosis on long term follow up Raymond Q Migrino, Richard Christenson, Aniko Szabo, Megan Bright, Seth Truran, Parameswaran Hari BMC Medical Physics 2009, 9 :5 (5 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Average arterial input function for quantitative dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of neck nodal metastases Amita Shukla-Dave, Nancy Lee, Hilda Stambuk, Ya Wang, Wei Huang, Howard T Thaler, Snehal G Patel, Jatin P Shah, Jason A Koutcher BMC Medical Physics 2009, 9 :4 (7 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Bone turnover markers are correlated with total skeletal uptake of 99m Tc-methylene diphosphonate (99m Tc-MDP) Janaka Lenora, Kristina Norrgren, Ola Thorsson, Per Wollmer, Karl J Obrant, Kaisa K Ivaska BMC Medical Physics 2009, 9 :3 (30 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Repeatability of regional myocardial blood flow calculation in 82 Rb PET imaging Karin Kne BMC Medical Physics 2009, 9 :2 (29 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Chemotherapeutic treatment efficacy and sensitivity are increased by adjuvant alternating electric fields (TTFields) Eilon D Kirson, Rosa S Schneiderman, Vladim BMC Medical Physics 2009, 9 :1 (8 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Multiple window spatial registration error of a gamma camera: 133 Ba point source as a replacement of the NEMA procedure Helmar Bergmann, Gregory Minear, Maria Raith, Peter M Schaffarich BMC Medical Physics 2008, 8 :6 (9 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Influence of increased target dose inhomogeneity on margins for breathing motion compensation in conformal stereotactic body radiotherapy Anne Richter, Kurt Baier, Juergen Meyer, Juergen Wilbert, Thomas Krieger, Michael Flentje, Matthias Guckenberger BMC Medical Physics 2008, 8 :5 (3 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Metabolism of no-carrier-added 2-[18 F]fluoro-L-tyrosine in rats Jo BMC Medical Physics 2008, 8 :4 (7 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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NEO adjuvant therapy monitoring with P ET and CT in E sophageal C ancer (NEOPEC-trial)Mark van Heijl, Jikke MT Omloo, Mark I van Berge Henegouwen, Olivier RC Busch, Hugo W Tilanus, Patrick MM Bossuyt, Otto S Hoekstra, Jaap Stoker, Maarten CCM Hulshof, Ate van der Gaast, et al. BMC Medical Physics 2008, 8 :3 (31 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Enzymatic digestion of articular cartilage results in viscoelasticity changes that are consistent with polymer dynamics mechanisms Ronald K June, David P Fyhrie BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2009, 8 :32 (4 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Image guided dose escalated prostate radiotherapy: still room to improve Jarad M Martin, Andrew Bayley, Robert Bristow, Peter Chung, Mary Gospodarowicz, Cynthia Menard, Michael Milosevic, Tara Rosewall, Padraig R Warde, Charles N Catton Radiation Oncology 2009, 4 :50 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Empirical evaluation of the inter-relationship of articular elements involved in the pathoanatomy of knee osteoarthritis using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Dennis S Meredith, Elena Losina, Gesa Neumann, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Philipp K Lang, Jeffrey N Katz BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2009, 10 :133 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Classification of BMI control commands from rat's neural signals using extreme learning machine Youngbum Lee, Hyunjoo Lee, Jinkwon Kim, Hyung-Cheul Shin, Myoungho Lee BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2009, 8 :29 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Automatic noninvasive measurement of systolic blood pressure using photoplethysmography Meir Nitzan, Amikam Patron, Zehava Glik, Abraham T Weiss BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2009, 8 :28 (26 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A dosimetric comparison of four treatment planning methods for high grade glioma Leor Zach, Bronwyn Stall, Holly Ning, John Ondos, Barbara Arora, Shankavaram Uma, Robert W Miller, Deborah Citrin, Kevin Camphausen Radiation Oncology 2009, 4 :45 (21 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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An e-learning application on electrochemotherapy Selma Corovic, Janez Bester, Damijan Miklavcic BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2009, 8 :26 (20 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Remarks on reporting and recording consistent with the ICRU Reference Dose Klaus Bratengeier, Markus Oechsner, Mark Gainey, Michael Flentje Radiation Oncology 2009, 4 :44 (14 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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On managing complex adaptive systems motivated by biosystems application to infections AS Hegazi, AH Hashish, E Ahmed Nonlinear Biomedical Physics 2009, 3 :11 (12 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Extraction of average neck flexion angle during swallowing in neutral and chin-tuck positions Delbert Hung, Ervin Sejdi BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2009, 8 :25 (7 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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