SINFONIA Research Results

Scientific Publications

We’re making our research findings available free of charge for readers and are providing open access to published papers and reports. The list will be updated as the project progresses.

T I T L E	A U T H O R (s)	J O U R N A L	D A T E	DOI
Deep learning‑based fully automated Z‑axis coverage range definition from scout scans to eliminate overscanning in chest CT imaging	Y. Salimi, I. Shiri, A. Akhavanallaf, Z. Mansouri, A. S. Manesh, A. Sanaat, M. Pakbin, D. Askari, S. Sandoughdaran, E. Sharifipour, H. Arabi and H. Zaidi	Insights into Imaging	06/11/2021	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13244-021-01105-3
Determining Out-of-Field Doses and Second Cancer Risk From Proton Therapy in Young Patients—An Overview	M. Romero-Expósito, I. Toma-Dasu, A. Dasu	Frontiers in Oncology	31/05/2022	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2022.892078/full
Peripheral organ equivalent dose estimation procedure in proton therapy	C. Domingo, J.I. Lagares, M. Romero-Expósito, B. Sánchez-Nieto, J.J. Nieto-Camero, J.A. Terrón, L Irazola, A. Dasu, F. Sánchez-Doblado	Frontiers in Oncology	25/05/2022	https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.882476
Range shifter scattering contribution to the stray radiation field in proton therapy measured with a tissue-equivalent proportional counter	L. Eliasson, J. Lillhök, T. Bäck, R. Billnert-Maróti, A. Dasu, M. Liszk	Frontiers in Oncology	02/08/2022	https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.882230
Occupational radiation exposure assessment during the management of [⁶⁸Ga]Ga-DOTA-TOC	M. Riveira-Martin, L. Struelens, W. Schoonjans, I. Sánchez-Díaz, J. Muñoz Iglesias, Ó. Ferreira Dávila, F. J. Salvador Gómez, M. Salgado Fernández, A. López Medina	EJNMMI Physics	29/10/2022	https://doi.org/10.1186/s40658-022-00505-8
Deep Learning-based calculation of patient size and attenuation surrogates from localizer Image: Toward personalized chest CT protocol optimization	Y. Salimi, I. Shiri, A. Akhavanallaf, Z. Mansouri, A. Sanaat, M. Pakbin, M. Ghasemian, H. Arabi, H. Zaidi	European Journal of Radiology	10/11/2022	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2022.110602
Fully automated accurate patient positioning in computed tomography using anterior-posterior localizer images and a deep neural network: a dual-center study	Y. Salimi, I. Shiri, A. Akavanallaf, Z. Mansouri, H. Arabi, H. Zaidi	European Radiology	27/01/2023	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-023-09424-3
Strategies for radiation dose calculation and optimization in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine procedure	A. Akhavanallaf	PhD thesis	13/03/2023	https://www.hug.ch/sites/interhug/files/structures/pinlab/documents/azadeh_thesis2023.pdf
Rapid estimation of patient-specific organ doses using a deep learning network	M. Myronakis, J. Stratakis, J. Damilakis	Medical Physics	23/03/2023	https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.16356
The predictive value of 68Ga-DOATATE PET and biomarkers in 177Lu-PRRT tumor dosimetry	A. Akhavanallaf, A.B. Peterson, K. Fitzpatrick, M. Roseland, K.K. Wong, I. El‑Naqa, H. Zaidi, Y. K. Dewaraja	EJNMMI	12/05/2023	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-023-06252-x
Real‑time, acquisition parameter‑free voxel‑wise patient‑specific Monte Carlo dose reconstruction in whole‑body CT scanning using deep neural networks	Y. Salimi, A. Akhavanallaf, Z. Mansouri, I. Shiri, H. Zaidi	European Radiology	27/06/2023	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-023-09839-y
Predictive value of ^99mTc-MAA-based dosimetry in personalized ⁹⁰Y-SIRT planning for liver malignancies	M. Riveira‑Martin, A. Akhavanallaf, Z. Mansouri, N. Bianchetto Wolf, Y. Salimi, A. Ricoeur, I. Mainta, V. Garibotto, A. López Medina, H. Zaidi	EJNMMI Research	03/07/2023	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13550-023-01011-3
Interview: Prevención de la exposición ocupacional a la radiación del personal de enfermería de Medicina Nuclear	M. Riveira‑Martin	Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales	15/07/2023	https://doi.org/10.12961/aprl.2023.26.03.08

Posters

T I T L E	A U T H O R (s)	C O N F E R E N C E	D A T E, P L A C E
Automatic Deep learning based calculation of water equivalent diameter from 2D CT localizer image	Y. Salimi, A. Akhavanallaf, I. Shiri, A. Sanaat, H. Arabi, H. Zaidi	Virtual IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference	16-23 October 2021, online
Comparison of low-distortion methods for calculating diffusion-related metrics in metastatic brain tumors and structures	M. Riveira Martin, A. Lopez Medina, A. Gonzalez Pose, A. Fernandez Gonzalez, F. Salvador Gomez, O. Miguel Vila Nieto, I. Nieto Regueira, V. Ochagavia Galilea, V. Manuel Muñoz Garzon	The European SocieTy for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO)	6-10 May 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark
Predictive value of dose metrics from 99mTc-MAA compared to 90Y SPECT/CT in Dosimetry-Guided Personalized SIRT of Hepatocellular Carcinoma	M. Riveira, A. Akhavanallaf, N. Bianchetto Wolf, Y. Salimi, I. Mainta, V. Garibotto, A. Lopez Medina, H. Zaidi	Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)	11-14 June 2022, Vancouver, Canada
Neutron dose equivalent increase due to range shifter in active proton therapy	M. Romero Expósito and A. Dasu	4th European Congress of Medical Physics (ECMP)	17-20 August 2022, Dublin, Ireland
Validation of FACS-based analysis of γH2AX foci formation anddecay in human peripheral blood lymphocytes and U2OS cells	M. Płódowska, A. Węgierek-Ciuk1, A. Lankoff, P. Wołowiec, A. Wójcik, H. Lisowska	European Radiation Research Society (ERRS)	21-24 September 2022, Catania, Italy
Human and object tracking systems for computational dosimetry in Nuclear Medicine	D. Santiago Rondón, P. Lombardo, M. Abdelrahman, N. Bergans, F. Vanhavere, L. Struelens	European Radiation Protection Week (ERPW)	9-14 October 2022, Estoril, Portugal
SINFONIA field survey of staff dosimetry practice in proton therapy centers	M. De Saint-Hubert, A. Dasu, J. Damilakis, L. Struelens	European Radiation Protection Week (ERPW)	9-14 October 2022, Estoril, Portugal
Advancing continuous education in the radiology department: case example through a novel software that quantifies repeated scans in CT	N. Fitousi, T. Van Herpe, B. Arnaudovski, T. De Waelheyns, H. Bosmans, J. Jacobs	European Radiation Protection Week (ERPW)	9-14 October 2022, Estoril, Portugal
Head and Neck Cancer Overall Survival Prognostication Using Dosiomic Features and Random Survival Forest Algorithm	Z. Mansouri, Y. Salimi, M. Amini, G. Hajianfar, M. Oveisi, I. Shiri, H. Zaidi	IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference	05-12 November 2022, Milan, Italy
Fully automated multi-organ segmentation in CT images via deep neural networks	Y. Salimi, I. Shiri, Z. Mansouri, H. Zaidi	IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference	05-12 November 2022, Milan, Italy
Real-time Voxel-Wise Patient-specific Monte Carlo dose reconstruction in whole-body CT images using Deep Neural Networks	Y. Salimi, A. Akhavanallaf, Z. Mansouri, I. Shiri, H. Zaidi	IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference	05-12 November 2022, Milan, Italy
Proton treatment for shallow brain targets: the influence of the range shifter in terms of in-field and out-of-field doses	M. Romero-Expósito, et al	Nordic Association for Clinical Physics (NACP) Symposium	30 March – 1 April 2023, Reykjavik, Iceland
CBCT Dose distribution Calculation with GATE Monte Carlo Simulations for Lymphoma patients undergoing Radiation Therapy	M. Riveira Martin, et al	ESTRO 2023	12-16 May 2023, Vienna, Austria
Voxel-wise tumour response estimation from functional imaging and radiobiological mode	A. López Medina, et al	ESTRO 2023	12-16 May 2023, Vienna, Austria
The effect of field size on neutron dose equivalent around the target in proton beams	M. Romero-Expósito, et al	ESTRO 2023	12-16 May 2023, Vienna, Austria
Framework for out-of-field dosimetry in photon radiotherapy: application to Hodgkin lymphoma	M. Romero-Expósito, et al	ESTRO 2023	12-16 May 2023, Vienna, Austria
Monitorización de la Dosis en Manos, Efectiva y en Tiempo Real del Personal de Medicina Nuclear durante el Tratamiento de Tumores Neuroendocrinos con [177Lu]Lu-DOTA-TATE	M. Riveira-Martin, et al	SEFM-SEPR 2023 Conference	23-26 May 2023, Oviedo, Spain
Neutron dose equivalent increase from the use of range shifter in proton fields	M. Romero-Expósito, et al	Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG) 61st Annual Conference	10-16 June 2023, Madrid, Spain

Factsheets

Title	Author(s)	Date	Link
Factsheet on diagnostic radiology	J. Damilakis, J. Stratakis, M. Myronakis	30/10/2021	Leaflet
Factsheet on radiation therapy	A. Dasu, M. Riveira Martín, A. López Medina	30/10/2021	Leaflet
Factsheet on nuclear medicine	H. Zaidi, M. Riveira Martín, M. Salgado Fernández, K. Bacher	30/10/2021	Leaflet

Public deliverables

	Title	Date
D5.1	Requirements and design of the prototype architecture	31/12/2021
D3.6	Field survey of staff dosimetry practice in proton radiotherapy centres	28/02/2022
D6.1	Report on dosimetry, radiobiology and radiation protection education in the field of medical imaging and radiation oncology	30/04/2022