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Medical Editor Jigisha Patel, MRCP PhD
In-house Editor Iratxe Puebla
Welcome to BMC Medical Physics published by BioMed Central
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.
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.
BMC Medical Physics 2009, 9 :1
Alternating electric fields, a non-toxic adjuvant cancer therapy, improves the efficacy of chemotherapeutic agents in glioma and breast cancer cell lines, animal models and glioblastoma patients, suggesting effective treatment with lower drug doses is possible.
BMC Medical Physics 2008, 8 :4
No-carrier-added 2-[18F]fluoro-L-tyrosine shows a fast and homogeneous uptake into protein fractions in the rat cerebellum and cortex, and is a suitable tracer for the assessment of protein synthesis by positron emission tomography.
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Repeatability of regional myocardial blood flow calculation in 82-Rb PET imaging Karin Knesaurek, Josef Machac, Zhuangyu Zhang BMC Medical Physics 2009, 9 :2 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Chemotherapeutic Treatment Efficacy and Sensitivity are Increased by Adjuvant Alternating Electric Fields (TTFields) Eilon D Kirson, Rosa S Schneiderman, Vladimir Dbaly, Frantisek Tovarys, Josef Vymazal, Aviran Itzhaki, Daniel Mordechovich, Zoya Gurvich, Esther Shmueli, Dorit Goldsher, Yoram Wasserman, Yoram Palti BMC Medical Physics 2009, 9 :1 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional 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, Jurgen Meyer, Jurgen Wilbert, Thomas Krieger, Michael Flentje, Matthias Guckenberger BMC Medical Physics 2008, 8 :5 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional 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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A computerized Infusion Pump for control of tissue tracer concentration during Positron Emission Tomography in vivo Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic measurements Olof Eriksson, Andreas Wallberg, Stina Syv BMC Medical Physics 2008, 8 :2 (30 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Perfusion scanning using 99m Tc-HMPAO detects early cerebrovascular changes in the diabetic rat Fatma J Al-Saeedi BMC Medical Physics 2008, 8 :1 (13 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Computer-assisted lateralization of unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy using Z-score parametric F-18 FDG PET images Ching-yee Oliver Wong, James Gannon, Jeffrey Bong, Christiana O Wong, Gopal B Saha BMC Nuclear Medicine 2007, 7 :5 (2 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Comparison of 2D, 3D high dose and 3D low dose gated myocardial 82 Rb PET imaging Karin Kne BMC Nuclear Medicine 2007, 7 :4 (22 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Identifying diabetic patients with cardiac autonomic neuropathy by heart rate complexity analysis Ahsan H Khandoker, Herbert F Jelinek, Marimuthu Palaniswami BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2009, 8 :3 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Movement variability in stroke patients and controls performing two upper limb functional tasks: a new assessment methodology Sibylle B Thies, Phil A Tresadern, Laurence P Kenney, Joel Smith, David Howard, John Y Goulermas, Christine Smith, Julie Rigby Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2009, 6 :2 (23 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Impact of collimator leaf width and treatment technique on stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy plans for intra- and extracranial lesions Q. Jackie Wu, Zhiheng Wang, John P. Kirkpatrick, Zheng Chang, Jeffrey J Meyer, Mei Lu, Calvin Huntzinger, Fang-Fang Yin Radiation Oncology 2009, 4 :3 (21 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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On the performances of Intensity Modulated Protons, RapidArc and Helical Tomotherapy for selected paediatric cases Antonella Fogliata, Slav Yartsev, Giorgia Nicolini, Alessandro Clivio, Eugenio Vanetti, Rolf Wyttenbach, Glenn Bauman, Luca Cozzi Radiation Oncology 2009, 4 :2 (14 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Case report
Maffucci syndrome and soft tissue sarcoma: a case report Fernando Cesar Toniazzi Lissa, Juliana Sonego Argente, Georgia Nunes Antunes, Franciani de Oliveira Basso, Janara Furtado International Seminars in Surgical Oncology 2009, 6 :2 (13 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Editorial
Medical imaging and physiological modelling: linking physics and biology Manuchehr Soleimani, Rebecca J Shipley, Nic Smith, Cathryn N Mitchell BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2009, 8 :1 (12 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Study protocol
Recommendations for implementing stereotactic radiotherapy in peripheral stage IA non-small cell lung cancer: report from the Quality Assurance Working Party of the randomised phase III ROSEL study Coen W Hurkmans, Johan P Cuijpers, Frank J Lagerwaard, Joachim Widder, Uulke A van der Heide, Danny Schuring, Suresh Senan Radiation Oncology 2009, 4 :1 (12 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A dosimetric comparison of different treatment plans of palliative spinal bone irradiation: analysis of dose coverage with respect to ICRU 50 report Fundagul Andic, Sule Baz Cifci, Yasemin Ors, Umar Niang, Ahmet Dirier, Mustafa Adli Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research 2009, 28 :2 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Investigation of the usability of conebeam CT data sets for dose calculation Anne Richter, Qiaoqiao Hu, Doreen Steglich, Kurt Baier, Jurgen Wilbert, Matthias Guckenberger, Michael Flentje Radiation Oncology 2008, 3 :42 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A simplified study of trans-mitral Doppler patterns George Thomas Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008, 6 :59 (28 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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