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Curriculum Vitae for:
Vladimir Feygelman, Ph.D., D.A.B.R.
April 24, 2015
Current Position:
Associate Member (tenured)
Medical Physicist
Department of Radiation Oncology
Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
12902 Magnolia Drive, MCC-Rad Onc
Tampa, FL 33612
Email: [email protected]
Office: (813) 745-2757
FAX: (813) 745-7231
Current Academic Appointments:
2012 – Present
Associate Professor
Department of Oncologic Sciences
College of Medicine
University of South Florida
12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33612-4799
2010 – Present
Courtesy appointment,
Department of Physics,
University of South Florida
12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33612-4799
Education:
1982
MS Laser Physics (Cum Laude)
Rostov State University, Rostov, U.S.S.R.
1985
Ph.D. Physical Chemistry
Rostov State University, Rostov, U.S.S.R.
Postgraduate Training and Fellowship Appointments:
1989-1990
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Physics,
University of Florida
1990 - 1991
Fellow in Medical Physics
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Department of Radiology, University of Florida
Employment:
1985 - 1988
Research Scientist, Rostov State University, U.S.S.R.
1991 - 1992
Medical Physicist, Manitoba Cancer Treatment and
Research Foundation, Winnipeg, Canada
1992 - 2000
Clinical Physicist II, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and
Research Institute at the University of South Florida,
Tampa, FL
2000 - 2007
Chief Physicist, Center for Cancer Care, University
Community Hospital (UCH), Tampa, FL
2007 - 2012
Assistant Member, Faculty, Moffitt Cancer Center,
Tampa, FL
2012- Present
Associate Member, Faculty, Moffitt Cancer Center,
Tampa, FL
Academic Appointments:
1991-1992
Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics,
University of Manitoba
2007-2012
Assistant Member, Moffitt Cancer Center, Assistant
Professor, USF Department of Oncologic Sciences
2010-Present
Courtesy Appointment at USF Department of Physics
2012-Present
Associate Member, Moffitt Cancer Center, Associate
Professor, USF Department of Oncologic Sciences
Licenses:
1998 - Present
State of Florida - Therapeutic Radiological Physics.
License # TRP 107
2005 - Present
State of Florida - Authorized Medical Physicist, RAM
License # 549-3, 549-1, 1739-3
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Board Certification:
1995 - Present
American Board of Radiology, Therapeutic Radiological
Physics
Languages Spoken:
Russian
Teaching Experience
University Courses:
1990-1991
Instructor. Diagnostic Radiology Labs, Department of
Radiology, University of Florida
1991-1992
Course Director. Graduate (MS/PhD) course
“Radiotherapy Physics”, Department of Physics, University
of Manitoba and Manitoba Cancer Foundation
2008 – 2009
Instructor. Radiological Physics (USF Physics 6909) for
residents and USF physics interns
2009 – Present
Course Director. Radiological Physics (USF Physics
6909) for residents and USF physics interns
2011 – 2012
Instructor. Medical Physics I for PhD students in
Applied/Medical Physics(USF College of Arts and
Sciences, Department of Physics, Course # 6938).
Responsible for a series of lectures covering the subject of
radiation dosimetry
2012 – Present
Course Director. Medical Physics I for PhD students in
Applied/Medical Physics (USF College of Arts and
Sciences, Department of Physics, Course # 6938).
Post-graduate Training:
1991 – 1992
Served on the advisory committee for R. Rajapakshe, PhD
– currently Senior Medical Physicist at British Columbia
Cancer Agency
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1991 –1992
Therapeutic Radiological Physics for radiation oncology
residents, Manitoba Cancer Foundation
2008 – 2009
Supervision of Medical Physics Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dan
Opp, Moffitt Cancer Center – currently Clinical Physicist at
Moffitt Cancer Center.
2009 – 2011
Serve on the PhD advisory committees for K. Latifi (USF
Department of Physics)
2010
External Examiner, PhD candidate Zhen Yu Qi, University
of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
2011
Supervision of an international scholar’s short-term
scientific visit to Moffitt – Jeannie Wong, PhD, University
of Wollongong, Australia
2011- 2012
Advisor, USF Physics PhD student, Joshua Robinson
2012
Supervisor, summer graduate fellowship for a USF PhD
student Cassandra Stambaugh
2012
External Examiner, PhD candidate Pejman Rowshan
Farzad, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
2012 – Present
Advisor, USF Physics PhD student, Cassandra Stambaugh
Workshops:
1997 – 2000
Co-director. Continuing education course “UltrasoundGuided Permanent Prostate Implants” for physicians,
physicists and dosimetrists, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa,
FL. This international course was presented multiple times
and hundreds of medical professionals were trained in the
procedure. USF CME Course # 1170-321, 341, 8188, 8189
1999
Physics Faculty, American Brachytherapy Society Prostate
Brachytherapy School, Palm Beach, FL
2009
Director. Rotational Therapy Workshop for Medical
Physicists. Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
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Undergraduate Training:
1993-1994
Instructor. Hillsborough Community College
Radiotherapy Physics Labs for radiation Therapy
Technology students, Tampa, FL
Honors and Awards
1977-1982
Honor merit scholarship at Rostov State University
2011
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics: Board of
Editors selection for The Elekta Award of Excellence for
an Outstanding Radiation Oncology Article in 2010 for
the article entitled “Initial dosimetric evaluation of
SmartArc - a novel VMAT treatment planning module
implemented in a multi-vendor delivery chain,” 11(1) 99116 (2010)
2012
Session Chair, World Congress on Medical Physics and
Biomedical Engineering, Beijing, China
2013
Medical Physics: Monthly Editor’s Pick and Top Ten
most read for the article entitled “Motion as a perturbation:
Measurement-guided dose estimates to moving patient
voxels during modulated arc deliveries,” 40(2), 021708
(2013)
Medical Physics: Monthly Editor’s Pick and Top Five
most read for the article entitled “Experimentally studied
dynamic dose interplay does not meaningfully affect target
dose in VMAT SBRT lung treatments,” 40(9), 091710
(2013)
Medical Physics: Monthly Editor’s Pick and the most read
for the article entitled “Evaluating IMRT and VMAT dose
accuracy: Practical examples of failure to detect systematic
errors when applying a commonly used metric and action
levels,” 40(11), 111722 (2013)
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Research Support
Current
External Grants
Account:
PI:
Dates:
Source:
Title:
% Effort:
Total Amount of Award:
84-17518-99-01
Vladimir Feygelman, Ph.D
04/08/2014 – 04/07/2015
Sun Nuclear Corp.
Development and Validation of Advanced 3D/4D
Dosimetry Techniques
5%
$62,771
Completed
External Grants
Account:
PI/Co-PI:
Dates:
Source:
Title:
84-15770-99-01
Kenneth Forster, Ph.D/Vladimir Feygelman, Ph.D
12-1-2008 – 11-30-2010
Dot Decimal, Inc.
Potential Advantages of Compensator based IMRT
for Thoracic & Abdominal Cases: Treatment
w/Compensator IMRT
Role in the Study:
Co-PI, Responsible for grant application
preparation, design and execution of the major
portion of the study
$126,755
$164,781
Total Direct Costs:
Total Amount of Award:
Account:
PI:
Dates:
Source:
Title:
% Effort:
Total Amount of Award:
84-16083-01-01
Vladimir Feygelman, Ph.D
06/08/2010 – 10/31/2011
Sun Nuclear Corp.
Evaluation and Improvement of the ArcCHECK 3D
Diode Dosimeter
14%
$56,000
Account:
84-16341-01-01
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PI/Co-PI:
% Effort:
Vladimir Feygelman, Ph.D./Geoffrey Zhang PhD,
et al
4/13/11-4/12/12
Dot decimal Inc. (This is new funding from the
previous sponsor)
“Implementation and clinical evaluation of
SnapShot IMRT” and “Commissioning and
evaluation of Tungsten powder photon
compensators”
1%
Total Amount of Award:
$69,300
Account:
PI:
Dates:
Source:
84-16083-02-01
Vladimir Feygelman, Ph.D
11/07/2011 – 11/06/2012
Sun Nuclear Corp. (This is new funding from the
previous sponsor)
Evaluation and Improvement of the ArcCHECK 3D
Diode Dosimeter
14%
$56,000
Dates:
Source:
Title:
Title:
% Effort:
Total Amount of Award:
Account:
PI:
Dates:
Source:
Title:
% Effort:
Total Amount of Award:
84-16858-01-01
Vladimir Feygelman, Ph.D
02/01/2013 – 01/31/2014
Sun Nuclear Corp.
Evaluation and Improvement of the ArcCHECK 3D
Diode Dosimeter
12%
$57,000
Clinical Trials
Title:
Sponsor:
Role:
RTOG 0813: A Seamless Phase I/II Study of
Stereotactic Lung Radiotherapy (SBRT)
for Early Stage, Centrally Located, Non-Small Cell
Lung Cancer (NSCLC) in Medically Inoperable Patients
RTOG
Institutional Physics CO-I. Responsible for physics
credentialing and compliance at Moffitt
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Invited Lectures: Professional Societies Research/CME Meetings
2009
“Evaluation of a 3-dimensional diode array system for
QA”. FL AAPM, Orlando, March 5-7.
“Initial Dosimetric Evaluation of SmartArc Planning
Module Implemented in the Multi-Vendor Environment”.
FL AAPM, Gainesville, October 8-9.
2010
“SmartArc Commissioning and QA with Delta4”. 3rd
Annual QA and Dosimetry Symposium, Orlando, FL,
Feb 19-20.
“Dose Verification in IMRT and VMAT”, International
Summer School on Concepts And Trends in Medical
Radiation Dosimetry, University of Wollongong,
Wollongong, Australia, Sep 15-18.
2011
“ArcCHECK: Validation and Improvements”, FL AAPM,
Orlando, FL, Mar 25-26.
2012
“Introduction to Physics of Lung SBRT”. 10th British
Thoracic Oncology Group Conference, Radiotherapy
Training, Dublin, Ireland, Jan 24.
“VMAT QA: Measurement-Guided, Time-Resolved Dose
Reconstruction on a Patient Dataset”, Florida Chapter
AAPM Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, Mar 9-10.
“Semi-Empirical Reconstruction of Volumetric Patient
Dose for VMAT”, World Congress on Medical Physics and
Biomedical Engineering, Beijing, China, May 26-31.
“Methods and Metrics for IMRT and VMAT Quality
Assurance”, World Congress on Medical Physics and
Biomedical Engineering, Beijing, China, May 26-31.
“Dosimetric quality assurance of conformal external beam
treatments: from 2D phantom comparisons to 4D patient
dose reconstruction”, Florida Chapter AAPM Fall Meeting,
St. Petersburg, FL, September 27-28.
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Keynote Speaker: “Dosimetric quality assurance of highly
conformal external beam treatments: from 2D phantom
comparisons to 4D patient dose reconstruction”,
IC3DDOSE: 7th International Conference on 3D Radiation
Dosimetry (endorsed by AAPM), Sydney, Australia,
November 4-8.
2013
“Introduction to physics of lung SBRT”. 11th Annual
British Thoracic Oncology Group Conference,
Radiotherapy Training Session, Dublin, Ireland, January
23.
“Motion as perturbation: deriving VMAT dose to moving
target.” Florida Chapter AAPM Spring Meeting, Orlando,
FL, April 5.
“4D Patient QA with Virtual Motion Simulation”, QA &
Dosimetry Symposium, Orlando, FL, April 6.
“Motion as Perturbation: Proof of Concept and Application
to Lung SBRT”. NE Chapter AAPM Annual Summer
Meeting, Portsmouth, NH, May 31.
2014
“IMRT in Lung Radiotherapy”. 12th Annual British
Thoracic Oncology Group Conference, Radiotherapy
Training Session, Dublin, Ireland, January 22.
“Quality Concepts in Minimum Practice Guidelines for
TPS Dosimetric Commissioning (TG-244)”. 2014 AAPM
Spring Clinical Meeting, Denver, CO, Mar 15.
“Physics of External Beam X-ray Radiation Therapy”.
Special Course on Radiation Therapy (SC8) held at the
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging
Conference, Seattle, WA, November 11.
Industry-Sponsored Presentations
2009
Philips Pinnacle User Symposia Invited Speaker. Jul 25,
Aug 20, Sep 20 & 22.
2013
Co-Director. “From 3D to IMRT: A Seminar on
Radiotherapy Treatment Planning ”, Moscow, Russia.
2014
“Respiratory MotionSim™ with 3DVH” Sun Nuclear
Corp. Webinar, Jan 15.
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“Are common IMRT/VMAT QA metrics sufficiently
sensitive?” Sun Nuclear Corp. User’s Meeting at the 2014
AAPM Meeting, Jul 22.
Service
Moffitt Cancer Center
2007 – Present
Member, Department IT committee – Bi-weekly
2010 – Present
Member, Moffitt “Quality Luncheon” (safety and quality
committee) - Quarterly
2010 – 2014
Member, Department Resident Education Committee Quarterly
2010- Present
Member, Moffitt Radiation Safety Committee – Bi-annual
or as needed
2010- Present
Department Physics Liaison for RTOG clinical trials
2014 – Present
Member, Resident Program Evaluation Committee
2014 – Present
Member, Resident Clinical Competency Committee
Profession
2004
Radiotherapy Physics written exam item writer, American
Board of Radiology
2007–2013
Member, Clinical Practice Guidelines Subcommittee,
American Association of Physicists in Medicine
Professional Council
2009–Present
Reviewer, “International Journal of Radiation Oncology,
Biology, Physics”, “Radiotherapy and Oncology”,
“Medical Physics”, “Physics in Medicine and
Biology”,“Acta Oncologica”, “Radiation Oncology”,
“Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in
Medicine”, “Physica Medica: European Journal of
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Medical Physics”, “Brachytherapy”,”Journal of Applied
Clinical Medical Physics”, AAPM Annual Meeting
2010
Guest Associate Editor, “Medical Physics”
2011-Present
Member, AAPM Task Group No. 219 - Independent Dose
and MU Verification for IMRT Patient Specific Quality
Assurance
2012 – Present
Editorial Board member and Associate Editor, “Journal Of
Applied Clinical Medical Physics”.
2013-Present
American College of Radiology Radiation Oncology
Practice Accreditation Physics Surveyor.
2013- 2014
Member, AAPM Task Group No. 244 - MPPG Therapy #4
Treatment Planning System Commissioning and QC/QA
2014-Present
Associate Editor, “Medical Physics”
2014-Present
Member, Practice Environment Subcommittee,
American Association of Physicists in Medicine
Professional Council
Professional Memberships
1988-1990
American Chemical Society
1990-Present
American Association of Physicists in Medicine
1997
American Brachytherapy Society
2007-Present
American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
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Publications
Peer-Reviewed Papers
1. Tymyanskii YR, Feigel'man VM, Knyazhanskii MI and Kholodova NV.
Luminescence and photocyclization of n-naphthyl-substituted pyridinium cations.
(Chem. Abs. 102 78210n.), Khim. Geterotsikl. Soedin. 11: 1528-1532, 1984.
2. Feigel'man VM, Tymyanskii YR, Knyazhanskii MI, Pyshev AI and Kholodova NV.
Photocyclization of a bichromophoric system based on the 124-triphenylpyridinium
cation. (Chem. Abs. 103 178143g.), Zh. Org. Khim. 21 (5): 1136-1137, 1985.
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3. Tymyanskii YR, Knyazhanskii MI, Feigel'man VM and Kharlanov VA. Molecularstructural aspects of the formation of spectral-luminescent properties of arylsubstituted pyridinium cations. (Chem. Abs. 103 122835s.), Zh. Prikl. Spectrosk. 42 (4):
574-579, 1985.
4. Tymyanskii YR, Feigel'man VM, Knyazhanskii MI and Makarov SP. Mechanizm of
the photocyclization of 124-triaryl-substituted pyridinium cations. (Chem. Abs. 103
36291k.), Khim. Vys. Energ. 19 (2): 136-140, 1985.
5. Feigel'man VM, Tymyanskii YR, Novikov VN and Knyazhanskii MI.
Photodimerization of 4-5-bromo-2-furyl-26-diphenylpyrylium and pyridinium
perchlorates. (Chem. Abs. 107 245667d.), Khim. Getrotsikl. Soedin. 10: 1425, 1986.
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6. Tymyanskii YR, Feigel'man VM, Druzhinin SI, Knyazhanskii MI and Uzhiniov BM.
Stereophotochemical mechanism of the formation of the fluorescent state in n-arylsubstituted pyridinium cations. (Chem. Abs. 106 175656c.), Khim. Fiz. 5 (10): 14291431, 1986.
7. Feigel'man VM, Tymyanskii YR, Novikov VN, Zubkov OA, Knyazhanskii MI and
Pustovarov VS. Photonucleophilic substitution of halogen in 5-bromo-2-substituted
pyridiniumfurans. (Chem. Abs. 108 221567r.), Khim. Geterotsikl. Soedin. 10: 1422,
1987.
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8. Knyazhanskii MI, Feigel'man VM, Tymyanskii YR, Druzhinin SI and Uzhinov BM.
The influence of structural relaxation on the fluorescent properties of n-naphthylsubstituted pyridinium cations. (Chem. Abs. 108 221173j.), J. Lumin. 37 (4): 215-220,
1987.
9. Knyazhanskii MI, Tymyanskii YR, Feigelman VM and Katritzky AR. Pyridinium
salts: Luminescent spectroscopy and photochemistry. Heterocycles, 26 (11): 29632982, 1987.
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10. Novikov VN, Tymyanskii YR, Feigel'man VM and Knyazhanskii MI. Synthesis and
spectral properties of furyl-substituted pyridines and pyrylium and pyridinium salts.
(Chem. Abs. 111 96533k.), Khim. Geterotsikl. Soedin. 10: 1320-1324, 1988.
11. Tymyanskii YR, Feigel'man VM, Knyazhanskii MI, Ivakhnenko EP and Pyshchev
AI. Free radicals in photocyclization. Polyaryl-substituted cations of pyridinium.
(Chem. Abs. 110 211841c.), 301 (6): 1435-1438, 1988.
12. Tymyanskii YR, Feigel'man VM, Zubkov OA, Novikov VN, Knyazhanskii MI and
Pustovarov VS. Photodimerization of furfurol bromo derivatives. (Chem. Abs. 109
170154q.), Zh. Org. Khim. 24: 459-460, 1988.
13. Dubonosov AD, Shepelenko EN, Lubarskaya AE, Feigel'man VM and Sitkina LM.
Manifestation of the structural relaxation in fluorescence of 2-aminoethylidene-1ethylindole-32h-ones. (Chem. Abs. 110 201943y.), Zh. Prikl. Spektrosk. 50 (2): 321-323,
1989.
14. Feygelman VM, Walker JK, Katritzky AR and Dega-Szafran Z. Studies of sterically
hindered oxadiazoles as potential fluorescent dopants for polymeric scintillators.
Chemica Scripta. 29: 241-243, 1989.
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15. Tymyanskii YR, Feygelman VM, Makarova NI, Knyazhanskii MI, Kharlanov VA,
Orekhovskii VS, Zhdanova MP and Zvezdina EA. Photochemistry of pyridinium
salts. 2. Photobiscyclization of n-azometine pyridinium derivatives. J. Photochem.
Photobiol. A: Chem. 54: 91-97, 1990.
16. Katritzky AR, Feygelman V, Musumarra G, Barczynski P and Szafran M.
Aromaticity as a quantitative concept. 2. Sixteen familiar five- and six-membered
monocyclic heterocycles. Journal für Praktische Chemie. 332 (6): 853-869, 1990.
17. Feygelman VM, Walker JK and Harmon JP. Polysiloxane-based scintillators doped
with oligophenylenes: Effect of color centers on radiation stability. Nucl. Instr. and
Meth. A, A290: 131-135, 1990.
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18. Feygelman VM, Walker JK and Harmon JP. Polysiloxane-based scintillators: 1144tetraphenylbutadiene as a secondary fluor. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A, A295: 94-98,
1990.
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19. Feygelman VM, Tymyanskii YR, Makarova NI, Knyazhanskii MI, Druzhinin SI and
Uzhinov BM. Photochemistry of pyridinium salts. 1. Intramolecular charge transfer
in n-aminosubstituted pyridinium cations. J. Phys. Org. Chem. 3: 200-204, 1990.
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20. Knyazhansky MI, Metelitsa AV, Makarova NI, Feygelman VM and Tymyansky JR.
Light-induced adiabatic structural relaxation and electronic energy deactivation in
pyridinium bications. J. Photochem. Photobiol. (A: Chem.). 132: 59-66, 2000.
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21. Feygelman V, Huda W and Peters K. Effective dose equivalents to patients
undergoing cerebral arteriograms. Amer. J. Neuroradiology. 13: 845-849, 1992.
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22. Feygelman V and Mandelzweig Y. Evaluation of electron beam uniformity during
commissioning of a linear accelerator. Med. Phys. 20: 1233-1236, 1993.
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23. Feygelman V, Noriega B, Sanders R and Friedland J. Dosimetry of permanent
prostate seed implants based on commercial treatment planning system and
spreadsheets. Med. Phys. 21: 959-960, 1994.
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24. Feygelman V, Mandelzweig Y, and Baral E. Matching electron beams without
secondary collimation for treatment of extensive recurrent chest wall carcinoma.
Med. Dosim. 19 (1): 23-27, 1994.
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25. Feygelman V, Noriega BK, Sanders RM and Friedland JL. Spreadsheet techniques
for dosimetry of permanent prostate seed implants. Med. Phys. 22: 97-100, 1995.
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26. Feygelman V, Sanders RM, Noriega BK and Friedland JL. A simple method for
verifying activity of i-125 seeds in rigid absorbable suture. Med. Dosim. 21 (4): 261262, 1996.
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27. Feygelman V, Friedland JL, Sanders RM, Noriega BK and Pow-Sang JM.
Improvement in dosimetry of ultrasound-guided prostate implants with the use of
multiple stabilization needles. Med. Dosim. 21 (2): 109-112, 1996.
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28. Friedland JL, Feygelman V, Haller EM, Bradley LM, Sanders RM and Noriega BK.
Problems with rigid seed strands lodging during prostate implantation: A proposed
mechanism and solution. Med. Dosim. 22 (1): 17-21, 1997.
29. Bice WS, Prestidge BR, Grimm PD, Friedland JL, Feygelman V, Roach M, Prete JJ,
Dubois DF and Blasko JC. Centralized multiinstitutional postimplant analysis for
interstitial prostate brachytherapy. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 41 (4): 921-927,
1998.
30. Feygelman V, Pow-Sang JM, Friedland JL and Sanders RM. Needle imaging during
ultrasound-guided permanent prostate implants. Techniques in Urology. 5 (3): 143145, 1999.
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31. Feygelman V, Walker L, Chinnaiyan P and Forster K. Simulation of intrafraction
motion and overall geometrical accuracy of a frameless intracranial radiosurgery
process. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 9(4): 68-86, 2008.
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32. Feygelman V, Nillson G and Forster K. Evaluation of a biplanar diode array
dosimeter and its application to quality assurance of step-and-shoot IMRT. J. Appl.
Clin. Med. Phys. 10 (4): 64-77, 2009.
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33. Feygelman V, Zhang G, Stevens C. Initial dosimetric evaluation of SmartArc - a
novel VMAT treatment planning module implemented in a multi-vendor delivery
chain. J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys. 11 (1): 99-116, 2010.
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34. Feygelman V, Hunt D, Walker L, Mueller R, Demarco ML, Dilling T, Stevens C,
and Zhang G. Validation of Pinnacle treatment planning system for use with Novalis
delivery unit. J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys. 11(3):135-153, 2010
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35. Zhang G, Huang TC, Feygelman V, Stevens C, Forster K. Generation of composite
dose and biological effective dose (BED) over multiple treatment modalities and
multistage planning using deformable image registration. Med Dosim, 35(2): 143150, 2010
36. Zhang G, Feygelman V, Stevens C, Li W, Leuthold S, Springett G, Hoffe S. “Replanning for compensator-based IMRT with original compensators”. Med Dosim.
36(1):102-108, 2011.
37. Feygelman V, Opp D, Javedan K and Saini A. Evaluation of a 3d diode array
dosimeter for helical tomotherapy delivery QA. Med Dosim. 35(4): 324-329, 2011
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38. Zhang G, Feygelman V, Huang T, Stevens C, Li W, Dilling T. Motion-weighted
target volume and dose-volume histogram: a practical approximation of fourdimensional planning and evaluation. Radiother Oncol. 99(1): 67-72, 2011.
39. Feygelman V, Zhang G, Stevens C, Nelms B. Evaluation of a new VMAT QA device
or: The X’s and O’s of 3D dosimetry array. J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys. 12(2): 146-168,
2011.
40. Opp D, Forster K, Feygelman V. Commissioning compensator-based IMRT on the
Pinnacle treatment planning system. J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys. 12(2): 310-325, 2011.
41. Kozelka J, Robinson J, Nelms BE, Zhang G, Savitskij D, Feygelman V. Optimizing
the accuracy of a helical diode array dosimeter: a comprehensive calibration
methodology coupled with a novel virtual inclinometer. Med Phys. 38(9), 5021-5032,
2011.
42. Zhang G, Ku L, Hsiang-Hsuan, Yu M, Sarangkasiri S, Zhang R, Li W , Feygelman
V. Dosimetric analysis of modulated and hybrid arcs in stereotactic radiosurgery. J.
Radiosurg. SBRT 1(3), 177-182, 2011.
43. Zhang GG, Ku L, Dilling TJ, Stevens CW, Zhang RR, Li W, Feygelman V.
Volumetric modulated arc planning for lung stereotactic body radiotherapy using
conventional and unflattened photon beams: a dosimetric comparison with 3D
technique. Radiat Oncol. 6(1), 152, 2011.
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44. Robinson J, Opp D, Zhang G, Cashon K, Kozelka J, Hunt D, Walker L, Hoffe S,
Shridhar R, Feygelman V. Evaluating dosimetric accuracy of Flattening Filter Free
compensator-based IMRT: measurements with diode arrays. Med. Phys. 39(1), 342352, 2012.
45. Fernandez D, Hoffe S, Barthel J, Vignesh S, Klapman J, Haris C, Almhanna K,
Biagioli M, Meredith K, Feygelman V, Rao N, Shridhar R.Stability of Endoscopic
Ultrasound-Guided Fiducial Marker Placement for Esophageal Cancer Target
Delineation and Image Guided Radiation Therapy. Practical Radiation Oncology,
3(1), 32-39, 2013.
46. Javedan K, Zhang G, Hoffe S, Feygelman V, Forster K. Comparing dose in the
build-up region between compensator and MLC based IMRT. J. Appl. Clin. Med.
Phys. 13(5), 1-12, 2012.
47. Nelms B, Opp D, Robinson J, Wolf T, Zhang G, Moros E, Feygelman V.VMAT QA:
Measurement-guided 4D dose reconstruction on a patient. Med. Phys. 39(7), 42284238, 2012.
48. Zhang G, Yu M, Stevens C, Dilling T, Hoffe S, Moros E, Feygelman V, “Motion
management in stereotactic body radiotherapy”, Nuclear Medicine & Radiation
Therapy, S6:012, 2012, doi: 10.4172/2155-9619.S6-012
49. Robinson J, Opp D, Zhang G, Feygelman V. Evaluation of inhomogeneity correction
factors for 6MV flattening filter free beams with brass compensators. J. Appl. Clin.
Med. Phys.14(3), 226-231, 2013.
50. Feygelman V, Stambaugh C, Zhang G, Hunt D, Opp D, Wolf T, Nelms B. Motion as
perturbation: measurement-guided dose estimates to moving patient voxels during
modulated arc deliveries. Med. Phys. 40(2), 021708 (11pp), 2013.
51. Opp D, Nelms E, Zhang G, Stevens C, Feygelman V. Validation of measurementguided 3D VMAT dose reconstruction on a heterogeneous anthropomorphic phantom
J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys. 14(4), 70-84, 2013.
52. Stambaugh C, Nelms B, Dilling T, Stevens C, Latifi K, Zhang G, Moros E,
Feygelman V. Experimentally studied dynamic dose interplay does not meaningfully
affect target dose in VMAT SBRT lung treatments. Med. Phys. 40(9), 091710 (8pp),
2013.
53. Latifi K, Huang TC, Feygelman V, Budzevich MM, Moros EG, Dilling TG, Stevens
CW, van Elmpt W, Dekker A, Zhang GG. Effects of quantum noise in 4D-CT on
deformable image registration and derived ventilation data. Phys. Med. Biol. 58(21),
7661-7672, 2013.
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54. Nelms BE, Chan MF, Jarr G, Lemire M, Lowden J, Hampton C, Feygelman V.
Evaluating IMRT and VMAT dose accuracy: Practical examples of failure to detect
systematic errors when applying a commonly used metric and action levels. Med.
Phys. 40(11),111722,(15pp), 2013.
55. Stambaugh C, Opp D, Wasserman S, Zhang G, Feygelman V. Evaluation of semiempirical VMAT dose reconstruction on a patient dataset based on biplanar diode
array measurements. J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys., 15 (2), 169-180, 2014.
56. Latifi K, Feygelman V, Moros EG, Dilling TJ, Stevens CW, Zhang G. Normalization
of ventilation data from 4D-CT to facilitate comparison between datasets acquired at
different times. PLoS ONE 8(12), e84083, 2013. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0084083
57. Feygelman V, Stambaugh C, Op D, Zhang G, Moros E, Nelms E. Cross-validation of
two commercial methods for volumetric high-resolution dose reconstruction on a
phantom for non-coplanar VMAT beams. Radiother. Oncol. 110 (3), 558-561, 2014.
doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.12.011.
58. Latifi K, Oliver J, Baker R, Dilling TJ, Stevens CW, Kim J, Yue B, DeMarco ML,
Zhang J, Moros EG, Feygelman V. Study of 201 non-small cell lung cancer patients
given stereotactic ablative radiation therapy shows local control dependence on dose
calculation algorithm. Intl. J. Radiat. Oncology Biol. Phys., 88 (5), 1108-1113, 2014.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.12.047
59. Javedan K, Feygelman V, Zhang RR, Moros EG, Correa CR, Trotti A, Li W, Zhang
GG. Monte Carlo comparison of superficial dose between flattening filter free and
flattened beams. Physica Medica, 30, 503-508, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmp.2014.03.001
60. Nelms BE, Opp D, Zhang G, Moros E, Feygelman V. Motion as perturbation II:
Development of the method for dosimetric analysis of motion effects with fixedgantry IMRT. Med. Phys. 41(6), 061704 (10pp), 2014.
61. Zhang DG, Zhang DG, Feygelman V, Moros E, Latifi K, Zhang G. Monte Carlo
study of radiation dose enhancement by gadolinium in megavoltage and high dose
rate radiotherapy PLoS ONE 9(10), e109389, 2013. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0109389
62. Stambaugh C, Nelms B, Wolf T, Mueller R, Geurtis M, Opp D, Zhang G, Moros E,
Feygelman V. Measurement-guided volumetric dose reconstruction for helical
tomotherapy. J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys., Accepted
Peer-Reviewed Full-Length Conference Proceedings
1. Zhang G, Feygelman V, Stevens C, Li W, Leuthold S and Hoffe S. Re-planning for
compensator-based imrt with original compensators. WC IFMBE Proceedings. O.
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Dössel and W.C. Schlegel (Eds.). 25 (I): 928-931, 2009. ISSN 1680-0737. ISBN 978-3642-03472-5. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-03474-9. http://www.springerlink.com/content/vp6207p160l85145/
2. Zhang G, Feygelman V, Stevens C, Li W and Dilling T. Motion-weighted dosevolume histograms – a novel approach to 4d treatment planning. WC IFMBE
Proceedings. O. Dössel and W.C. Schlegel (Eds.). 25 (I): 904-907, 2009. ISSN 16800737. ISBN 978-3-642-03472-5. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-03474-9.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/vw8301t5428t88h6/
3. Gurvich V and Feygelman V. Useful techniques in tomotherapy treatment planning.
WC IFMBE Proceedings. O. Dössel and W.C. Schlegel (Eds.). 25 (I): 890-892, 2009.
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http://www.springerlink.com/content/vj25074v411r582h/
4. Feygelman V, Opp D, Javedan K, Saini A and Zhang G, Validation of a biplanar
diode array dosimeter for helical tomotherapy delivery QA. WC IFMBE
Proceedings. O. Dössel and W.C. Schlegel (Eds.). 25 (I): 863-866, 2009. ISSN 1680U
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0737. ISBN 978-3-642-03472-5. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-03474-9.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/m333360283778141/
5. Feygelman V and Nelms B. Dose Verification in IMRT and VMAT. Proceedings of
the SSD Summer School on Concepts and Trends in Medical Radiation Dosimetry.
Rozenfeld A, Kron T, d’Errico F, Moscovitch M (Eds),p.145-164. American Institute
of Physics, Mellville, NY, 2011, 336p. ISBN 978-0-7354-0901-9. ISSN 0094-243X
http://scitation.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/1345.jsp
6. Robinson J, Opp D, Zhang G, Cashon K, Kozelka J, Hunt D, Walker L, Hoffe S,
Shridhar R, Feygelman V. Commissioning compensator-based IMRT with a
Flattening Filter Free beam. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical
Engineering, Beijing, China, 2012. IFMBE Proceedings, TH.01/01.4-2.
7. Zhang R, Feygelman V, Harris E, Forster K, Zhang G. Monte Carlo study of dose
difference in electron conformal therapy planning introduced by bolus material
approximation. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering,
Beijing, China, 2012. IFMBE Proceedings, TH.01/13.2-1.
8. Feygelman V and Nelms B. Dosimetric quality assurance of highly conformal
external beam treatments: from 2D phantom comparisons to 4D patient dose
reconstruction. J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 444, 012012 (9pp), 2013. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1088/17426596/444/1/012012
9. Feygelman V, Opp D, Zhang G, Stevens C, Nelms B. Experimental verification of
the planned dose perturbation algorithm in an anthropomorphic phantom. J. Phys.
Conf. Ser. 444, 012047 (4pp), 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/444/1/012047
10. Nelms B, Feygelman V. A novel method for 4D measurement-guided planned dose
perturbation to estimate patient dose/DVH changes due to interplay. J. Phys. Conf.
Ser. 444, 012097 (5pp), 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/444/1/012097
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11. Nelms B, Jarry G, Chan M, Hampton C, Watanabe Y, Feygelman V. Real-world
examples of sensitivity failures of the 3%/3mm pass rate metric and published action
levels when used in IMRT/VMAT system commissioning. J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 444,
012086 (5pp), 2013. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1088/1742-6596/444/1/012086
Peer-Reviewed Abstracts
1. Mandelzweig Y, Feygelman V and Mirzai M. Commissioning of electron beams of
the Siemens Mevatron KD-2 linac: Problems with lateral profiles. Med. Phys. 19:
794, 1992.
2. Feygelman V and Mandelzweig Y. Implementation of rotational total skin electron
irradiation on Siemens Mevatron KD-2 linac. Med. Phys. 19: 794 (1992).
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3. Feygelman V and Mandelzweig Y. Clinical applications of matching electron beams
without secondary collimation. (PS18-2.1), presented at the World Congress On
Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 1994.
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4. Feygelman V, Javedan K, Nillson G and Forster K. SU-GG-T-139: Evaluation of a
biplanar diode array detector for mlc- and compensator-based IMRT QA. Medical
Physics. 35 (6): 2758, 2008.
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5. Walker L, Feygelman V, Chinnaiyan P, Yu M and Forster K. SU-GG-T-456:
Simulation of intrafraction motion and overall geometrical accuracy of a frameless
intracranial radiosurgery process. Med. Phys. 35 (6): 2829-2830, 2008.
6. Zhang G, Feygelman V, Stevens C and Dilling T. SU-EE-A2-03: Motion-weighted
dose-volume histogram: A more meaningful and practical four-dimensional planning
and evaluation method. Med Phys. 36: 2429, 2009.
7. Zhang G, Feygelman V, Javedan K and Hoffe S. SU-FF-T-580: Compensator-based
IMRT re-planning using field-in-field technique and the original compensators. Med
Phys. 36: 2658, 2009.
8. Opp D, Sarangkasiri S, Walker L, Feygelman V, Brem S, Chinnaiyan P, Forster K,
and Yu, HM. Pre-treatment simulation of target motion for frameless intracranial
stereotactic radiosurgery treatments using the novalis exac trac system. (ASTRO
Abstr 2938), Int. J. Rad. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 75(3S): S602, 2009.
9. Opp D, Feygelman V, and Forster K. SU-GG-T-282: Commissioning compensatorbased IMRT in the Pinnacle treatment planning system. Med. Phys. 37(6): 3250, 2010
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10. Nilsson G, and Feygelman V. SU-GG-T-240: 3D dose calculation in Delta4. Med.
Phys. 37(6): 3240, 2010
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11. Feygelman V, Zhang G, Stevens C, and Nelms B. SU-DD-A1-03: On rotational
measurements with the ArcCHECK 3D diode array. Med. Phys. 37(6): 3088, 2010.
Moderated Poster.
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12. Zhang G, Feygelman V, Huang T, Stevens C, Li W, and Dilling T. TU-C-BRA-05:
Dose-volume histogram comparison between deformable and rigid motion
registration in four-dimensional planning for moving targets. Med. Phys. 37(6): 3382,
2010. Oral Presentation.
13. Nelms B, Feygelman V. SU-DD-A1-02: The X's and O's of 3D Dosimetry
Phantoms. Med. Phys. 37(6): 3088, 2010. Moderated Poster.
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14. Zhang G, Feygelman V, Huang T, Stevens C, Li W, and Dilling T. Motion-weighted
dose-volume histogram and its validation with four-dimensional dosimetry using
deformable image registration (Small paper). Proceedings of the XVIth International
Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy, Amsterdam, 2010.
15. Fernandez DC, Hoffe SE, Dilling TJ, Vignesh S, Barthel JS, Klapman JB, Leuthold
SL, Zhang G, Feygelman V, Shridhar R. Effect of abdominal compression on
respiratory motion of esophageal cancers measured with 4DCT after EUS-guided
fiducial marker placement. Int J Rad Onc Biol Phys 78(3) Supppl: S302
16. Forster K, Opp D, Zhang G, Latifi K, Pritz J, Shridar R, Dilling T, Hoffe S.,
Feygelman V. Quantification of delivered IMRT dose distributions for mobile
targets. Int J Rad Onc Biol Phys 78(3) Supppl: S753-754
17. Kozelka J, Robinson J, Zhang G, Nelms B, Feygelman V. SU-E-T-688: Evaluation
and improvement of the ArcCHECK 3D Dosimeter. Med. Phys. 38(6): 3521 (2011).
18. Zhang G, Ku L, Dilling T, Stevens C, Li W, Feygelman V. SU-E-T-688: Dosimetric
evaluation of VMAT techniques in lung stereotactic body radiotherapy. Med. Phys.
38(6): 3696 (2011).
19. Zhang G, Ku L, Yu M, Sarangkasiri S, Li W, Feygelman V. SU-E-T-884: Dosimetric
evaluation of arc techniques in stereotactic radiosurgery. Med. Phys. 38(6): 3695
(2011).
20. Zhang R, Zhang G, Harris E, Forster K, Feygelman V. SU-E-T-688: Monte Carlo
study of material approximation introduced dose difference in electron conformal
therapy planning. Med. Phys. 38(6): 3648, 2011.
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21. Feygelman V, Nelms B. Methods and metrics for IMRT and VMAT quality
assurance. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Beijing,
China, 2012. IFMBE Proceedings, TH.01/11.2-1.
22. Opp D, Robinson J, Nelms B, Zhang G, Feygelman V, Semi-empirical reconstruction
of volumetric patient dose for VMAT. World Congress on Medical Physics and
Biomedical Engineering, Beijing, China, 2012. IFMBE Proceedings, TH.01/13.1-3.
23. Robinson J, Opp D, Zhang G, Cashon K, Kozelka J, Hunt D, Walker L, Hoffe S,
Shridhar R, Feygelman V. Commissioning compensator-based IMRT with a
Flattening Filter Free beam. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical
Engineering, Beijing, China, 2012. IFMBE Proceedings, TH.01/01.4-2. (Oral
presentation).
24. Zhang R, Feygelman V, Harris E, Forster K, Zhang G. Monte Carlo study of dose
difference in electron conformal therapy planning introduced by bolus material
approximation. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering,
Beijing, China, 2012. IFMBE Proceedings, TH.01/13.2-1. (Oral presentation).
25. Opp D, Robinson J, Nelms B, Zhang G, Feygelman V. SU-E-T-348: Measurementguided 4D VMAT dose reconstruction on an arbitrary homogeneous dataset. Med.
Phys. 39(6), 3784, 2012.
26. Zhang G, Javedan K, Moros E, Latifi K, Feygelman V. SU-E-T-479: Skin dose from
flattening filter free beams: a Monte Carlo investigation. Med. Phys. 39(6), 3815,
2012.
27. Latifi K, Huang T, Feygelman V, Stevens C, Dilling T, Moros E, van Elmpt W,.
Dekker A, Zhang G. Effects of noise in 4D CT on deformable image registration and
derived ventilation data. Cancer Imaging and Radiation Therapy Symposium,
Orlando, FL, USA, 2013.
28. Zhang G, Latifi K, Huang T, Feygelman V, Moros E, Stevens C ,Dilling T.
Normalization of 4D-CT derived ventilation data to facilitate intra-patient
comparisons. Int J Rad Onc Biol Phys 87(2) Supppl: S692, 2013.
29. Feygelman V, Stambaugh C, Dilling T, Latifi K , Stevens C , Zhang G ,. Moros E,
Nelms B. Dynamic dose interplay does not meaningfully affect target dose in VMAT
SBRT treatments. Int J Rad Onc Biol Phys 87(2) Supppl: S700-701, 2013.
30. Latifi K, Huang T, Feygelman V, Budzevich M, Stevens C, Dilling T, Moros E, Van
Elmpt W, Dekker A, Zhang G. SU-E-J-66: Effects of noise in 4D-CT on deformable
image registration and derived ventilation data. Med. Phys. 40(6), 165, 2013.
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31. Latifi K, Huang T, Feygelman V, Moros E, Stevens C, Dilling T, Zhang G. SU-E-J69: Normalization of ventilation data from 4D-CT for comparison before and after
treatment. Med. Phys. 40(6), 165, 2013
32. Wasserman S, Feygelman V, Moros E. SU-E-T-239: Implementation of QA
procedures and their effect on the radiation treatment delivery error rate over a 12
year period. Med. Phys. 40(6), 259, 2013.
33. Latifi K, Oliver J, Dilling T, Stevens C, DeMarco M, Zhang G, Moros E, Feygelman
V. TH-A-137-7: Local control differences for SBRT lung patients planned with
Pencil Beam vs. Collapsed Cone Convolution Algorithms. Med. Phys. 40(6), 518,
2013. (Oral Presentation).
34. Oliver J, Budzevich M, Zhang G, Latifi K, Dilling T, Balagurunathan Y, Gu Y,
Grove1O, Feygelman V, Gillies R, Moros E. SU-E-QI-17: Dependence of 3D/4D
PET quantitative image features on noise. Med. Phys. 41(6), 380, 2014.
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