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Medical Editor Jigisha Patel, MRCP PhD
In-house Editor Rachel Neilan MSc
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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, Scopus, EMBASE and Google Scholar.
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BMC Medical Physics 2009, 9 :4
Individual arterial input function (AIF) data from a limited population may be used to generate average AIF values for application to the pharmacokinetic modeling of dynamic MRI imaging data in oncology trials.
BMC Medical Physics 2009, 9 :2
Software processing of Rb-82 positron emission tomography (PET) images shows high repeatability for the assessment of myocardial blood flow and coronary flow reserve, supporting the value of PET for noninvasive evaluation of coronary heart disease.
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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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Implications of a high-definition multileaf collimator (HD-MLC) on treatment planning techniques for stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT): a planning study James A Tanyi, Paige A Summers, Charles L McCracken, Yiyi Chen, Li-Chung Ku, Martin Fuss Radiation Oncology 2009, 4 :22 (10 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Critical scale of propagation influences dynamics of waves in a model of excitable medium Joseph M Starobin, Christopher P Danford, Vivek Varadarajan, Andrei J Starobin, Vladimir N Polotski Nonlinear Biomedical Physics 2009, 3 :4 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Test-Retest variability of High Resolution Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging of Cortical Serotonin (5HT2A) receptors in older, healthy adults Tiffany W Chow, David C Mamo, Hiroyuki Uchida, Sylvain Houle, Gwenn S Smith, Bruce G Pollock, Benoit H Mulsant BMC Medical Imaging 2009, 9 :12 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Central motor control failure in fibromyalgia: a surface electromyography study Roberto Casale, Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini, Fabiola Atzeni, Marco Gazzoni, Dan Buskila, Alberto Rainoldi BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2009, 10 :78 (1 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Negative predictive value and potential cost savings of acute nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging in low risk patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome: A prospective single blinded study Jakob L Forberg, Catarina E Hilmersson, Marcus Carlsson, Hakan Arheden, Jonas Bjork, Krister Hjalte, Ulf Ekelund BMC Emergency Medicine 2009, 9 :12 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Reproducibility and repeatability of measuring the electrical impedance of the pregnant human cervix-the effect of probe size and applied pressure Roobin P Jokhi, Vidita V Ghule, Brian H Brown, Dilly OC Anumba BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2009, 8 :10 (17 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Monte Carlo dose verification of prostate patients treated with simultaneous integrated boost intensity modulated radiation therapy Nesrin Dogan, Ivaylo Mihaylov, Yan Wu, Paul J Keall, Jeffrey V Siebers, Michael P Hagan Radiation Oncology 2009, 4 :18 (15 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Quantifying coronary sinus flow and global LV perfusion at 3T Karin Markenroth Bloch, Marcus Carlsson, H BMC Medical Imaging 2009, 9 :9 (11 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The mathematics of tanning Josef Thingnes, Leiv Oyehaug, Eivind Hovig, Stig W Omholt BMC Systems Biology 2009, 3 :60 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Variability of myocardial perfusion dark rim Gibbs artifacts due to sub-pixel shifts Pedro Ferreira, Peter Gatehouse, Peter Kellman, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, David Firmin Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2009, 11 :17 (27 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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