Publications – Thermoacoustic Range Verification

Publications – Thermoacoustic Range Verification

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  1. SK Patch, V Sarkar, A Chiravuri, RJ Vallejos, JE Lynch, “Validation of a Cable-Free and User-Friendly thermoAcoustic Range Verifier for a 2 Gy Proton Field Delivered to the Liver of an Anthropomorphic Phantom,” Intl. Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology & Physics, published online ahead of print.
  2. Y Hao,  T Mai, W Green, K McElvain, E Traneus, SK Patch,  “Thermoacoustic range verification during conventional dose rate delivery by a synchrocyclotron,” Medical Physics, 52:e17954 (2025).  author manuscript
  3. TD Mast, DA Johnstone, CL Dumoulin, MA Lamba, SK Patch, “Reconstruction of thermoacoustic emission sources induced by proton irradiation using numerical time reversal,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, 68 025003. author manuscript
  4. SK Patch, C Nguyen, D Dominguez-Ramirez, R Labarbe, G Janssens, D Cammarano, J Lister, C Finch, J Lambert, J Pandey, C Bennett, E Porteous, C Chirvase, M Cohilis, K Souris, S Ono, T Lynch, “Thermoacoustic Range Verification During Pencil Beam Delivery of a Clinical Plan to an Abdominal Imaging Phantom,” Radiotherapy and Oncology, 159, pp. 224-230, (2021). author manuscript 
  5. SK Patch, D Santiago, B Mustapha, “Thermoacoustic Range Verification in the presence of Acoustic Heterogeneity and Soundspeed Errors – Robustness Relative to Ultrasound Image of Underlying Anatomy,” Medical Physics 46(1), pp. 318-327, (2019).
  6. SK Patch, DEM Hoff, TB Webb, LG Sobotka, T Zhao, “Two-stage ionoacoustic range verification leveraging Monte Carlo and acoustic simulations to stably account for tissue inhomogeneity and accelerator–specific time structure – A simulation study,” Medical Physics, 45(2), pp. 783-793, (2018).
  7. SK Patch, M Kireeff Covo, A Jackson, YM Qadadha, KS Campbell, RA Albright, P Bloemhard, AP Donoghue, CR Siero, TL Gimpel, SM Small, BF Ninemire, MB Johnson, and L Phair, “Thermoacoustic Range Verification using a Clinical Ultrasound Array Provides Perfectly co-Registered Overlay of the Bragg peak onto an Ultrasound Image,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, 61, pp. 5621-5638, (2016).

Patents – Thermoacoustic Range Verification

Systems and methods for radiation beam range verification using sonic measurements.

System for radiation beam range verification using sonic measurements.

Publications – Thermoacoustic Imaging

  1. D. Finch, S. K. Patch, Rakesh, “Determining a Function from its Mean Values over Spheres,” SIAM J. Math. Anal., 35(5), pp. 1213-1240, (2003).   
  2. SK Patch, “Thermoacoustic Tomography – Consistency Conditions and the Partial Scan Problem,” Physics in Medicine & Biology, 49(11), pp. 2305 – 2315, (2004).
  3. D. Fallon, L. Yan, G. W. Hanson, SK Patch, “RF Testbed for Thermoacoustic Tomography,” Review of Scientific Instruments, 80, #064301, (2009).
  4. A Eckhart, R Balmer, W See, SK Patch, “Ex Vivo Thermoacoustic Imaging over Large Fields of View with 108 MHz Irradiation,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 58(8), pp. 2238 – 2246, (2011).
  5. SK Patch, D Hull, M Thomas, SK Griep, K Jacobsohn, WA See, “Thermoacoustic contrast of prostate cancer due to heating by very high frequency irradiation,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, 60, pp. 689-708, (2015). author manuscript
  6. SK Patch, D Hull, WA See, GW Hanson, “Toward Quantitative Whole Organ Thermoacoustics With a Clinical Array Plus One Very Low-Frequency Channel Applied to Prostate Cancer Imaging,” IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 63(2), pp. 245-55 (2016).  author manuscript

Conference Presentations – Thermoacoustic Range Verification

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