Biomedical Mathematics: Promising Directions in Imaging, Therapy Planning, and Inverse Problems  Price Reduced!

Author:  Yair Censor, Ming Jiang, and Ge Wang, Editors
ISBN:  9781930524484
Published:  2010 June | 562 pp  | Hardcover

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Table of Contents


Contents

Preface (Below)

Contributing Authors

1. Planning and Optimizing Treatment Plans for Actively Scanned Proton Therapy
Francesca Albertini, Sylvain Gaignat, Matthias Bosshardt, Antony J. Lomax


2. Identification and Characterization of Transcriptome-based Biomarkers in Arthritis and Cancer for Personalized Medicine by Translational Genomics
Ashok R. Amin and Ge Wang


3. Approximate Stability Estimates in Inverse Transport Theory
Guillaume Bal and Alexandre Jollivet


4. General Resolvents for Monotone Operators: Characterization and Extension
Heinz H. Bauschke, Xianfu Wang, and Liangjin Yao


5. Clustering, Classification, and Contour Approximation of Data
Adi Ben-Israel and Cem Iyigun


6. Multi-Slice CT: Optimizing the Use of Intravenous Contrast Material
James A. Brink, M.D.


7. Statistical Iterative Reconstruction for X-Ray Computed Tomography
Bruno De Man and Jeffrey A. Fessler


8. On the Estimation of Motion-Induced Temporal Dose Variations in Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy Treatment Fields
Eric D. Ehler and Wolfgang A. Tomé


9. A Class of Iterative Methods: Semi-convergence, Stopping Rules, Inconsistency, and Constraining
Tommy Elfving, Touraj Nikazad, and Constantin Popa


10. Radiation Therapy Planning with a Given Set of Binary Matrices
Çigdem Güler and Horst W. Hamacher


11. Mathematical Theory for X-Ray Phase-Contrast Imaging with 2D Grating Interferometry
Ming Jiang and Ge Wang


12. An Approach to Motion Compensation in Tomography
Alexander Katsevich


13. Iterative Algorithms for the Multiple-Sets Split Feasibility Problem
Genaro López,Victoria Martín-Márquez, and Hong-Kun Xu


14. X-Ray Phase Imaging with Talbot Interferometry
Atsushi Momose, Wataru Yashiro, and Yoshihiro Takeda


15. Acoustic Imaging in 3D
Frank Natterer


16. Optimization of Physical and Biological Dose Distributions in Hadron Therapy
Uwe Oelfke, Joanne Kang, Daniel Pflugfelder, and Jan Jakob Wilkens


17. Block-Iterative and String-Averaging Projection Algorithms in Proton Computed Tomography Image Reconstruction
Scott N. Penfold, Reinhard W. Schulte, Yair Censor, Vladimir Bashkirov, Scott McAllister, Keith E. Schubert, and Anatoly B. Rosenfeld


18. Advanced Contrast Modalities for X-Ray Radiology: Phase-Contrast and Dark-Field Imaging Using a Grating Interferometer
Franz Pfeiffer, Martin Bech, Torben Jensen, Oliver Bunk, Tilman Donath, Christian David, Timm Weitkamp, Geraldine Le Duc, Alberto Bravin, and Peter Cloetens


19. Comparison of Some Reconstruction Schemes for Optical Tomography
Martin J. Schweiger and Simon R. Arridge


20. Seminorm-Induced Oblique Projections for Sparse Nonlinear Convex Feasibility Problems
Alexander Segal and Yair Censor


21. 3D Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging in Turbid Inhomogeneous Media by Using Time-Gated Data Acquisition
Vadim Y. Soloviev, Cosimo D’Andrea, Gianluca Valentini, Rinaldo Cubeddu, and Simon R. Arridge


22. Towards a New Paradigm for Radiation Treatment Planning
George Starkschall


23. Towards the Patient-Adaptive Approach to Risk Evaluation, Treatment Planning, and Delivery of Thoracic Radiotherapy
Alexei Trofimov, Cornelia Gansemer, Adam D.Yock, Christian Vrancic, Thomas Bortfeld, and Noah C. Choi


24. Imaging Biomarkers
Michael Vannier


25. Interior Tomography: Practical Applications
Ge Wang, Hengyong Yu,Yangbo Ye


26. Real-Time Imaging for Radiation Therapy Guidance
Rodney D.Wiersma ,Nadeem Riaz, and Lei Xing


27. Interior Tomography: Mathematical Analysis
Yangbo Ye, Hengyong Yu, Ge Wang


Preface


This book brings together 27 state-of-the-art, refereed and subsequently revised, research and review papers, by leading experts and practitioners in mathematical methods in biomedical imaging, in intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and in optimization and inverse problems. The emphasis is on trying to discover relations and connections between these fields that will enhance progress in each of them. As this volume shows, applicable mathematical work in these fields goes hand-in-hand with real-world applications and the mutual “technology transfers” between them leads to further progress.


The topics covered here include mathematical aspects and practical problems in current major and emerging technologies in diagnostic and therapeutic medicine and biology research. The contributed work signifies the interdisciplinary cooperation between mathematicians and scientists from medical physics, engineering, clinical medicine, and biology that leads to mathematically based better solutions of practical problems in biomedical imaging and IMRT.


The Huangguoshu National Park of China, Guizhou, China, under the leadership of Mr. Degang Yuan, President of the Huangguoshu Tourism Group Company, LTD, recognizing the importance of the field and the need for interaction between theoreticians and practitioners, and desiring to create a high-profile cultural activity at the Huangguoshu National Park, provided us with a special grant to organize the “Huangguoshu International Interdisciplinary Conference on Biomedical Mathematics—Promising Directions in Imaging,Therapy Planning, and Inverse Problems.”


The Conference took place during November 3–9, 2008, in the breathtaking Huangguoshu National Park of China. The Conference was conducted under the scientific auspices of the Mathematical Center of the Ministry of Education of China at Peking University (PKU) in Beijing, China; the Center for Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computation (CCMSC) at the University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; the School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, USA; and the Guizhou University in Guiyang, Guizhou, China. Experts from around the world were invited and participated. They came from Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, P.R. China, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Most of the papers in this volume originated from the lectures presented at the Conference, while others were written in the wake of discussions held during the Conference.


It is our pleasure to heartily thank Mr. Degang Yuan and the team of the Huangguoshu Tourism Group, Peking University, and Virginia Tech for their devoted and efficient work throughout all phases of the preparations for the conference. In particular we thank Dr. Lingyin Zhao, Zongmin (Tracy) Mao, Haifeng (Mountain) Tong, and Gang (Leo) Xie, from the the Huangguoshu Tourism Group; Prof. Tie Zhou, Dr. Caifang Wang, Dr. Xin Jiang, and Yuanzheng Si, Yu Zhou, Shengkun Shi, from Peking University (PKU); and Deepak Bharkhada, from Wake Forest University, for their cooperation and extraordinary support in organizing and conducting the Conference.


Many thanks are due to the referees whose work enhanced the final versions of the papers which appear here. Last but not least, we thank the participants of the Conference and the authors who contributed their work to this volume. We gratefully acknowledge the help of Ms. Betsey Phelps, Managing Editor, Medical Physics Publishing, Madison, WI, USA, for her and her team’s work on the production of this volume.


We hope that researchers in applied mathematics, medical physics, biomedical imaging, and intensity-modulated radiation therapy will find this book a useful tool in their current research and development efforts.


Yair Censor, Ming Jiang and Ge Wang
Haifa, Beijing, and Blacksburg, VA, respectively
January 31, 2010