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Present Your Research to the World! The World Congress 2009 on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering - the triennial scientific meeting of the IUPESM - is the world's leading forum for presenting the results of current scientific work in health-related physics and technologies to an international audience. With more than 2,800 presentations it will be the biggest conference in the fields of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering in 2009! Medical physics, biomedical engineering and bioengineering have been driving forces of innovation and progress in medicine and healthcare over the past two decades. As new key technologies arise with significant potential to open new options in diagnostics and therapeutics, it is a multidisciplinary task to evaluate their benefit for medicine and healthcare with respect to the quality of performance and therapeutic output. Covering key aspects such as information and communication technologies, micro- and nanosystems, optics and biotechnology, the congress will serve as an inter- and multidisciplinary platform that brings together people from basic research, R&D, industry and medical application to discuss these issues. As a major event for science, medicine and technology the congress provides a comprehensive overview and in-depth, first-hand information on new developments, advanced technologies and current and future applications. With this Final Program we would like to give you an overview of the dimension of the congress and invite you to join us in Munich! Olaf Doessel Congress President Wolfgang C.

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Application study of monitoring microwave coagulation therapy using ultrasonic tissue characterization.- A comparison of two phase measurement techniques for Magnetic Impedance Tomography.- High Concentration Barium Sulfate Used in Gastric Cancer Screening.- Investigations of Artifact "Pseudo-flow" Physical Mechanisms in Ultrasound Dopplerography.- Delay And dispersion correction for simultaneous quantification of perfusion And permeability in the prostate using DCE-MRI with a dual-contrast sequence.- Limits of Accuracy in Assessing Vessel Permeabilities Using Permeability-Surface(PS)-Limited Two-Compartment Models.- Functional MR-Imaging of Human Emotions: Towards Single Subject Diagnosis.- Development and characterization of a widefield imaging system combining fluorescence and reflectance images for the detection of skin and oral cancer.- Estimation of Semi Automatic versus Automatic Choice Methods on Breast Dose.- Approaches to detect Neuronal Currents using a DC-Mechanism by means of Low Field Magnetic Resonance.- Evaluation of Different Tracer Kinetic Models in DCE-MRI of Rectal Cancer.- A study on reference based time intensity curves quantification in DCE-MRI monitoring of rectal cancer.- Imaging Electric Conductivity with MRI.- Metal Artifact Reduction in CBCT Using Forward Projected Reconstruction Information and Mutual Information Realignment.- Comparison of Cardiac MR and 3D Echocardiography Left Ventricular Analysis.- Breast Phantom Design for Dedicated Breast CT and Breast Tomosynthesis.- Comparison of Advanced Iterative Reconstruction Methods for SPECT/CT.- Perfusion Measurements in Micro-CT: Increased Dose Efficiency by Use of HYPR LR Image Reconstruction.- Imaging Properties of Digital Magnification Mammography.- A NEW FAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING USING QUADATIC PHASE SCRAMBLING.- RGB-colored material discrimination for radiography by multi-monochromatic spectroscopy.- Use of Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging and 3D tractography software in mild traumatic brain injury.- Evaluation of energy-subtraction CT images using diffracted monochromatic x rays.- Temporal Resolution Assessment Using a Dedicated Edge Spread Function Approach.- Detection of the Optimal Reconstruction Window for Respiratory-Gated Micro-CT Imaging.- Reproducibility of Dopamine and Serotonin Transporter Binding Measured with Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography.- Ultrasound Backscattering Outperforms the Clinically Used Ultrasound Parameters in Discrimination of Osteoporotic-Like Human Trabecular Bone Samples.- Mathematical Based Imaging of Regional Ischemia.- Prospectus: Development of a Compton Camera for Medical Imaging.- Development of a Breast Statistical Phantom Prototype for Mammographic Image Qualification.- In vivo Monitoring by EIT for the Pig's Bleeding after Liver Injury.- Investigations on Film Digitizers Systems by a Study of Image Quality in Mammography.- A High Output Impedance Current Source for Wideband Bioimpedance Measurements.- Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Kidney: "Best Regression" for the Determination of Diffusion Constants.- Development of an Optical Fluorescence Tomography System for Small Animal Imaging.- A Non-Local Means Approach for PET Image Denoising.- Improvement of the Measurement Quality of Radio Imaging Method for Biomedical Application.- Resolving temporal differences of hemodynamic response with event-related spin-Echo BOLD fMRI at 3T: Comparing to gradient-echo BOLD.- Optimising Coherence Properties for Phase Contrast X-Ray Imaging (PCXI) to Reveal Airway Surface Liquid (ASL) as an Airway Health Measure.- Modeling of Multiple Technical Factors Effect on Noise in Computed Tomography.- Evaluation of Breast Tumor Targeting with Radiolabeled F(ab')2 Fragmant of a New Anti-MUC1 Monoclonal Antibody (PR81) .- On Evaluation of First Call 2000TM.- Investigation of Optimum Grid for Digital Radiography.- A New Method to Improve the Accuracy in EIS Diagnosis.- Micro-CT Performance Testing.- Material Identification from X-ray Images Made by Energy-Differentiation Type X-ray Line Sensor.- Spatially Resolved Automatic Cardiac Rest Phase Determination in Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA).- Image Reconstruction for Optical Fluorescence Tomography Using a Linear Optimization Method.- Evaluation of the Local Speed-of-Sound Estimation for the Correction of Ultrasound Compound Imaging by Speckle Analysis.- Design and Characteristics of a Metamaterial Transmit/Receive Coil Element for 7 Tesla MRI.- High Resolution Chemical Shift Imaging of the Human Brain without Water Suppression at 3T.- Computational Analysis of Simulated Images Generated in Public Health Centers in Sao Paulo - Brazil.- Do additional x-rays taken by a radiographer during x-ray screening for gastric cancer improve detection?.- Automatic Exposure Control Systems and Current Modulations: Comparison of Different 64-Slice CT Scanners.- Detection of fMRI Activations after Acoustic Stimulation by Correlation Analysis.- Dosimetric and Image Quality Comparison of Different 64-Slice CT Scanners.- Breath-Hold Target Localization with Simultaneous Kilovoltage/Megavoltage Cone-Beam CT and Fast Reconstruction.- Image-Based Dual Energy CT Using Optimized Precorrection Functions: A Practical New Approach to Material Decomposition in the Image Domain.- Pedagogic Tool for Learn-Teaching on Digital Mammography Using Dedicated Software.- Comparison of BOLD-signal magnitude between a 32-channel and a 12-channel head coil.- Multispectral Photoacoustic Coded Excitation using Orthogonal Unipolar Golay Codes.- The Passive Infrared Thermography as Addition to Diagnostics of Diseases in the Head Region of the Horse - First Results.- Comparison of the performance of FCR-Profect systems with different mammographic equipment.- The Research of the Medical Perspective Imaging of Intense Laser Proton Beam.- Reconstruction of mammography x-ray spectrum by using Rayleigh and Compton scattering corrections.- Rayleigh and Compton scattering analysis for PMMA in the mammography energy range.- Detection of Amyloid-?-Plaques by Means of Quantitative Magnetization Transfer.- Resolving anisotropic microstructures and connectivity by means of diffusion weighted MR imaging: towards clinical applicability.- Comparison of clinical protocols of multi-slice CT systems.- The Diagnostic Accuracy of in vivo Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy of Basal Cell Carcinoma: A Preliminary Study in Chinese Patients.- Optimization of Exposure Factors and Image Quality for Computed Radiography.- The availability of diffusion-weighted imaging with the fluid-attenuated inversion recovery method (FLAIR-DWI) with a low-performance MR unit in chronic ischemia disease.- Statistics of digital x-ray image brightness histograms.- Phase-Contrast and Dark-Field Imaging - Advanced Contrast Modalities in X-Ray Radiology.- Optimization of Magnification in a VRX CT Scanner.- In-vivo red fluorescent protein tomography.- Computer Aided Diagnosis Tool for the Segmentation and Texture Analysis of Medical Images.- Thermal Imaging as an Aid to the Diagnosis of Pain in Horses - First Results.- Preeclampsia Amplitude-time Characteristics for ?Z/?t Curve.- Electric Impedance Imaging of the Mammary Gland in Circumstances of Skin Abnormality or Damage.- Using Backprojection Algorithm for 3D Image Reconstruction in EIT.- Role of Microwave Imaging for Early Detection of Breast Cancer.- Improvement Thyroid Cancer Early Diagnosis by Using Fractal Dimension Analysis of IR Signature.- Use of CNR as a Metric for Optimisation in Digital Radiology.- Manual Segmentation of Brain Tissue and Multiple Sclerosis Lesions for Texture Analysis.- Laser-driven particle acceleration utilizing nm-thin diamond foils: Improved ion acceleration for cancer therapy, improved electron acceleration and potentially ultra-brilliant X-ray beams for medical diagnostics.- J-Substitution and Filtered Equipotential-Projection Based Hybrid MREIT Reconstruction Algorithm.- Effect of visual image features on neural activities: An fMRI study.- Anisotropic Conductivity Imaging with MREIT Using J-substitution and Hybrid J-substitution Algorithms.- Computerized method for classification between dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease by use of texture analysis on brain MRI.- The Use of Digital X-Ray to Monitor Decalcification in Sheep Femora.- Assessment of Iron Concentration by Direct Saturation Imaging (DSI) in a Two- Pool Model of Brain Tissue.- Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma treated with the oral multikinase inhibitor Sorafenib.- Observation of edge-enhancement in digital images obtained with a clinical mammography unit.- Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy at 3T - Evaluation of Metabolic Profile of Human Brain Lesions.- A Monte Carlo Tool for Micro-CT Dose Assessment.- A highly customizable ultrasound research platform for clinical use with a software architecture for 2d-/3d-reconstruction and processing including closed-loop control.- Fiber Architecture Mapping of the Renal Medulla Using Respiratory Triggered Diffusion Tensor Imaging at 3 Tesla.- FMT-XCT: Fluorescence Molecular Tomography and X-Ray CT Reconstruction Using a Priori Information.- High-contrast real-time optoacoustic imaging of subcutaneous blood vessels.- A Semi-automatic Method for SWI Processing.- Partial Volume Correction Methods Based on Measured Lesion-to-Background Ratio in PET-CT Oncological Studies.- Optimization of Combination of Voxel Size and Flip Angle by Visual Evaluation for Renal Magnetic Resonance Angiography without a Contrast Agent.- Labeling of cancer cell with magnetic nanoparticles for magnetic resonance imaging.- Quality Assurance of Diagnostic Monitors.- Local Spectrum measurement system for 5-Aminolaevulinic acid Induced Protoporphyrin IX fluorescence.- The Effects of Irradiation of Diode Laser on Cutaneous Wound Healing in Rabbits.- Software Tool for Recording and Analysis of the Brain Intrinsic Optical Signals.- Pushing the Limit - MRI of the Lung Using Hyperpolarized 3-Helium in Conjunction with Parallel Imaging.- Development of a Sensor Network for Dynamic Boundary Measurement in Neonatal Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT).- Towards Quantitative Flat-Detector CT Using Advanced Scatter Correction.- Image Quality Evaluation for a Robot-Driven C-Arm CT System.- On Limitations of 1D Interpolation-Based Metal Artefact Reduction Approaches - A Comparison of FBP versus MLEM.- PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF A BGO AND A GSO PET/CT SCANNER FOR THE NON-PURE POSITRON EMITTER 64Cu.- Non-invasive monitoring of cortical volume alterations in rat brains using a clinical 3T whole body MRI scanner.- Optimizing dynamic breast MRI by utilizing the injection delay for fast scanning.- Design of a new Compton Camera by Monte Carlo method and assessment its important parameters affecting image quality.- Survey of Radiation Dose, Image Quality and Equipment Performance of Mammography Units in Taiwan.- Innovative Method for Objective Evaluations of the Quality of CT Systems.- Development and experimental implementation of new approaches to measure MTF and NPS.- Bar and Point Test Patterns Generated by Dry-Etching for Measurement of High Spatial Resolution in Micro-CT.- Magnetic Resonance Signal Analysis in Inhomogenous Magnetic Fields.- Radiation risk for women in screening mammography examinations in Poland in 2007.- The Influence of the Heel Effect on FD-CT Imaging with Shifted Detectors.- Comparison of few-view CT image reconstruction algorithms by constrained total-variation minimization based on different sampling bases.- Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography (MSOT) Characterization in Resolving Molecular Biomarkers.- An Introduction to the Hardware of Magnetic Particle Imaging.- Computer Simulation in Evaluating the Attenuation Coefficients Influence on Mammography Images Contrast.- Contrast-Medium-Enhanced Digital Mammography: Comparison of Standard vs. High-Energy Spectra for Dual-Energy Temporal Subtraction.- Anisotropic Dynamical Modeling of the Mechanisms of ST and TQ Segment Changes during Subendocardial Ischemia.- Theoretical and clinical aspects of TWIST based 4D time-resolved MR angiography.- Toward Early Detection and Differentiation of Arthritic diseases: Quantification of Haemodynamics Changes in Small Joints.- The effect of receiver coil orientation on the system performance in magnetic induction tomography.- Application of Volterra Series to the Detection of Ultrasound Contrast Agents.- Theoretical limitations of diffusion based optical fluorescence tomography.- Fluorescence Spectroscopy as Tool for Bone Development Monitoring in Newborn Rats.- Absolute quantitation of brain metabolites with respect to the CSF fraction in 1H-MR spectroscopic volumes.- Imaging Alpha Signal Modulation Using an ICA-Based EEG Inverse Approach.- Ultrasound Angular Scatter Imaging: Beam Forming Method.- In vivo 1H-MRS of the rat brain with a clinical 3 T whole-body MR Scanner: Estimation of absolute metabolic concentrations and T2 values.- Monte Carlo simulation of x-ray tube spectra with PENELOPE.- Research on Electrode Impedance Characteristic in Electrical Bioimpedance Measurement.- Experimental Study on Early Detection of Acute Cerebral Ischemic Stroke Using Electrical Impedance Tomography Method.- Computer Assisted Characterization of Lymph Nodes Using Spectral Ultrasound Backscatter and Attenuation Measures.- An ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO CDMAM ANALYSIS USING A NEW PERCEPTUAL ALGORITHM: MS-SSIM???.- Wide Band Frequency Fixed Current Source for BIT and BIA.- Feasibility of Lung Imaging Using Magnetic Induction Tomography.- High frequency photoacoustic microscopy for high resolution imaging.- Comparison of Three Approaches for Timing Optimization of a Dual Layer LSO-APD Small Animal PET Scanner.- Development of a T1 Contrast Agent for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Gd2O3 Nanoparticles.- A Novel Application of MRI-Polymer Gel Dosimeter for Measurement of CTDI on X-Ray 64 Slices CT Scanner.- Brain White Matter Pathological Comparison in MS Relapsing-Remitting Patients, Clinically Isolated Syndrome Patients and Normal Subjects Using Quantitative Magnetization Transfer Imaging.- Tidal Volume Monitoring with Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) on COPD Patients. Relationship Between EIT and Diffusion Lung Transfer (DL,CO).- Application of time-gated, intensified CCD camera in the brain imaging system.- The MediPROBE CdTe Based Compact Gamma Camera.- Heterogeneity of Micro- and Macro-conduction in Atrial Pectinate Muscles studied with Cardiac Near Field Measurements and Computer Simulation.- A Laboratory Scanner for Cone Beam Breast Computed Tomography.- The MediSPECT Small Animal CdTe Scanner.- Comparison of Techniques for Speckle Noise Reduction in Breast Ultrasound Images.- Elucidation of intersection distribution in motion vectors from successive echocardiograms and its application for heart disease recognition.- Efficient data acquisition in CT: dual optimal reading.- CT with Dual Optimal Reading: compatibility of the two data sets and interpolation issues.- A new linear algebra based mathematical technique for Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy guided biopsy.- Development of a Polarizer and Biocompatible Polarizing Agents for Use in Dynamic Nuclear Polarization DNP-Enhanced NMR and MRI.- HgI2 Flat Panel Radiation Detectors for Medical Imaging Acquisition.- MRE Imaging for Elasticity and Viscosity of Biological Tissues.- A Novel Measurement System for Cardiac Flow Analysis Applied to Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Heart.- Following Scoliosis Progression in the Spine using Ultrasound Imaging.- Evaluation strategies for determination of left ventricular indices: Pros and Cons of model vs. non-model based quantification software.- Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Signatures for Breast Cancer Detection: Direct Comparison of Synchrotron and Laboratory X-Ray Sources.- Computer-Assisted Risk Analysis and 3-Dimensional Reconstruction Based on Multislice Lung Computer Tomography.- A new string phantom with four independent variables for evaluation of doppler ultrasonography instruments.- 4D velocity measurements in intracranial aneurysms using 3T phase contrast MRI angiography.- Quantification of Myocardial Blood Flow Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Different accelerated Pulse Sequences.- An intuitive vessel viewing system to facilitate blood withdrawal.- Is there a necessity of Standard Uptake Value correction in liver reference level?.- Hyperspectral Imaging of Lipids using Near-infrared Super Continuum Light.- The Effect of Rare Earth Screen on Dose Reduction for Conventional Imaging Procedures.- Local Motion Correction and Influence of Attenuation Correction in Combined Positron Emission and X-Ray Computed Tomography.- 2D-Ultrasound Lacks Accuracy for the Prediction of Radionuclide Ventriculography Ejection Fraction Examinations.- Shorted Waveguide Method for Biological Tissues Dielectric Properties Investigation.- Towards a Quality Assurance Protocol for 2D and 3D Breast X-Ray Imaging Techniques.- Characterization of different types of silicon photomultipliers for PET: A study using optical photon tracking simulations and measurements.- Automatic Histologic Grading for Lobular Carcinoma In Situ.- A Validation Framework for Head-Motion Artifacts in Dental Cone-Beam CT.- Methodological Issues on the Estimation of the MRI-Induced SAR in Tissues in Contact with Implanted Thin Metallic Structures.- Evaluation of wavelet-based methods for denoising ultrasonic echo signals.- Diffusion Weighted ZOOM Imaging in the Lumbar Spine Based on Single-Shot STEAM.- Sensitivity Study of a 3D Electric Impedance Tomography Prostate Probe.- Performance Tests and Preliminary Results of the 3TMR-BrainPET Scanner Installed at the Forschungszentrum Julich.- EVALUATION OF THE PARAMETERS OF THE QUALITY OF RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE OBTAINED WITH REX SIMULATOR.- An Image Quality Study of Medipix2 Single Photon Counting Detector Based on Two Kinds of Flat Field Corrections for Breast Computed Tomography Application.- Which Factors Influence MRI In-Stent Lumenvisibility of Coronary In-Stent Stenosis? An In-Vitro Model Investigation.- Design and Construction of Transmission and Reception Circuits for Ultrasound Multi-element Transducers.- Assembly, Calibration and Application of a Hyperspectral Image System for Biomedical Imaging.- Segmental strain and strain rate in homogenous and non-homogenous PVA cardiac phantom.- Focusing Pulsed Electromagnetic Radiation for Therapy and Imaging.- Refinement of Exponents for the Photoelectric Absorption in Dual-Energy CT Applications.- Application of Ambulatory Impedance Cardiography for Analysis of Ventricular Extrasystole Beats.- Comparison of Bayesian MAP Estimation and Kalman Filter Methods in the Solution of Spatio-Temporal Inverse ECG Problem.- Dose and quality of the image in mammography in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.- Medical X-ray tube.- Non-invasive skin oxygenation imaging using a multi-spectral imaging system, Effectiveness of different concentration algorithms applied on human skin.- Finite Element Discretization Strategies for the Inverse Electrocardiographic (ECG) Problem.- Characterization and Detection of Clinically Relevant Microbial Biofilms with Ultrasound Contrast Agents.- 2D/3D registration of freehand SPECT and planar scintigraphy for clinical evaluation of 3D thyroid scintigraphy.- FMDIB: a software tool for fusion of MRI and DHC-SPECT images of Brain.- EVALUATION OF THE QUALITY OF RADIOGRAPHIC FILMS UTILIZED IN DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY.- Decomposing Subspaces of EEG Channel Space into Potentials of Non-overlapping Distributed Sources.- Computer-Assisted Analysis of Renal Scintigraphy.- Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease Using fMRI Data and Modifications of Random Forests Algorithm.- The phantom for quality evaluations of the nonlinear noise reduction filter in multidetector row computed tomography.- Optimization of Screening Programmes for Breast Cancer.- Diffusion Tensor Imaging and MR-Tractography for Characteristic of Microstructural Integrity of White Matter in Patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD).- ADC Values and Glutamate/Creatine Ratios in the Brain in Normally Developing Children and in Children with Seizure Disorders: DWI and 1H in-vivo MRS Study.- Microwave Tomographic Imaging System for Extremities Soft Tissues Imaging.- Simultaneous imaging of absorption and scattering in dc diffuse optical tomography.- Evaluation of Two Scatter Corrections Techniques for an Uncollimated Transmission Flood Source.- Imaging Multidrug Resistance in Osteosarcoma: A Pre-clinical Approach Using an Orthotopic Animal Model.- A Rotating Cylinder Phantom for Flow and Tissue Color Doppler Testing.- Adaptive Scanning Control for Cardiac CT Image Reconstruction.- Efficiency of Gd2O2S: Eu Powder Phosphor as X-Ray to Light Converter under Radiographic Imaging Conditions.- Development of Pre-Clinical SPECT for MRI.- Assessment of Image Quality in SPECT Systems via the Implementation of a Novel Flood Source Technique.- Accurate determination of CT PSF with high precision.- Examination of energy subtraction method by using diffracted monochromatic x rays.- Imaging of Cardiac Electrical Sources Using a Novel Spatio-Temporal MAP-based Regularization Method.- Solving the Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography in a Realistic Environment Using a Spatio-Temporal LSQR-Tikhonov Hybrid Regularization Method.- A Kalman Filter with Integrated Tikhonov-Regularization to Solve the Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography.- MIQuaELa, Software for DQE Measuring in DIGITAL Radiography/Mammography.- Performance Analysis of Quantitative Bone Measurement with Spiral CT.- Quantification of uterine peristalis in cine-MR images by block matching and optical flow.- Gradient Coil Design Method for Handy MRI.- A Novel Method for the MTF Determination in PET/CT Scanners.- Regularization of Diffusion MRI Q-Ball Fields for Crossing Fiber Tractography.- For the Quality Control of Mammography, Interpretation of Mammographic Test Results by Using the HVL-kVp Relation.- High-Resolution Raman Tissue Imaging of Rat Myocardial Infarction.- Improved Breast Surface Identification for UWB Microwave Imaging.- Modeling the Point Spread Function of Paired Angle Multiplicative Compounding in Ultrasound.- Analysis of Rat Colonic Mucosal Autofluorescence under Excitation with UV/Violet Light.- Radial Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Using a Shift-and-Add Algorithm.- Who may benefit from a combined review of radiologic and pathologic images of breast diseases?.- Can Anti-Scatter Grids Improve Image Quality in Breast CT.- Detection for demineralization of dental hard tissues using index sequences.- Pulsatile Flow Phantoms for Quality Control of Doppler Ultrasound Imaging.- Study of Pediatric CR Dose Reduction Using Noise Addition Simulations Tools.- Confocal Microscopy Based on Injection of Reflected Irradiation.- A Study of DQE Dependence with Beam Quality, GE Senographe Essential Detector for Mammography.- Quantum X-Ray Imaging with the 2D - Micro Hole and Strip Plate.- Visualization of the Skin Electrodynamic Landscape: Some Phenomenological Features in Norm and Oncopathology.- Assembly for One-dimensional Magnetic Particle Imaging.- Quantification of Fractional Flow Reserve Using Angiographic Image Data.- Temporal Resolution Improvement using PICCS.- Study Lung Tool: A Way to Understand HRTC Lung Parenchyma.- Dual Energy Subtraction Angiography: A Simulation Study Using the Three Material Approach.- Automatic Detection of Breast Masses Using Two-View Mammography.- Probing Development and Molecular Function in Diffusive Living Organisms with Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography (MSOT).- Studying the Boundary Data Profile of a Practical Phantom for Medical Electrical Impedance Tomography with Different Electrode Geometries.- Bone Density Changes during Adjuvant Aromatase Inhibitor Treatment in Breast Cancer Patients: Single Centre Experience.- Polymer-Nanoparticles for Multimodal Imaging and Targeted Therapy: Concept, Data, Perspectives.- Network Analysis for Investigating Functional Connectivity in Major Depression Disorder: A Functional Magnetic Images (fMRI) Study.- Hemodynamics Segregation Using Expectation-Maximization Algorithm Initialized by Hierarchical Clustering on MR Dynamic Images from Patients with Unilateral Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis.- Quantifying Brain Atrophy of Multiple System Atrophy of the Cerebellar Type (MSA-C) Using Fractal Dimension Analysis.