Moiz U. Ahmad, Ph.D.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. McCoy, K, Marisetty, S, Tan, D, Jensen, CT, Siewerdsen, JH, Peterson, CB, Ahmad, M. Automatic vessel attenuation measurement for quality control of contrast-enhanced CT. Medical physics 51(9):5954-5964, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39031758.
2. McCoy K, Marisetty S, Tan D, Jensen CT, Siewerdsen JH, Peterson CB, Ahmad M. Automatic vessel attenuation measurement for quality control of contrast-enhanced CT: validation on the portal vein. Medical Physics, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
3. Ahmad M, Sun P, Peterson CB, Anderson MR, Liu X, Morani AC, Jensen CT. Low pitch significantly reduces helical artifacts in abdominal CT. Eur J Radiol 166:110977. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37481832.
4. Ahmad M, Liu X, Morani AC, Ganeshan D, Anderson MR, Samei E, Jensen CT. Oncology-specific radiation dose and image noise reference levels in adult abdominal-pelvic CT. Clin Imaging 93:52-59, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36375364.
5. Szczykutowicz TP, Ahmad M, Liu X, Pozniak MA, Lubner MG, Jensen CT. How Do Cancer-Specific Computed Tomography Protocols Compare With the American College of Radiology Dose Index Registry? An Analysis of Computed Tomography Dose at 2 Cancer Centers. J Comput Assist Tomogr 47(3):429-436, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37185007.
6. Ahmad, M, Tan, D, Marisetty, S. Assessment of the global noise algorithm for automatic noise measurement in head CT examinations. Medical physics 48(10):5702-5711, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34314528.
7. Ahmad M, Tan D, Marisetty S. Assessment of the Global Noise Algorithm for Automatic Noise Measurement in Head CT Examinations. Medical Physics 48(10):5702– 5711, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
8. Ahmad M, Jacobsen MC, Thomas MA, Chen HS, Layman RR, Jones AK. A Benchmark for Automatic Noise Measurement in Clinical Computed Tomography. Medical Physics 48(2):640-647, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33283284.
9. Vernekohl D, Ahmad M, Dai X, Zhao W, Cheng K, Xing L. Reduced acquisition time for L-shell x-ray fluorescence Computed tomography using polycapillary x-ray optics. Medical Physics 46(12), 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31512753.
10. Martin R, Ahmad M, Hugo G, Pan T. Iterative volume of interest based 4D cone-beam CT. Medical Physics 44(12):6515-6528, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28898423.
11. Ahmad M, Fahrig R, Pung L, Spahn M, Köster NS, Reitz S, Moore T, Choi JH, Hinshaw W, Xia Y, Müller K. Assessment of a photon-counting detector for a dual-energy C-arm angiographic system. Medical Physics 44(11):5938-5948, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28940528.
12. Müller K, Datta S, Gehrisch S, Ahmad M, Mohammed MA, Rosenberg J, Hwang GL, Louie JD, Sze DY, Kothary N. The Role of Dual-Phase Cone-Beam CT in Predicting Short-Term Response after Transarterial Chemoembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Journal of Vascular Interventional Radiology 28(2):238-245, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 27914917.
13. Vernekohl D, Ahmad M, Chinn G, Xing L. Feasibility study of Compton cameras for x-ray fluorescence computed tomography with humans. Physics in Medicine and Biology 61(24):8521-8540, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27845933.
14. Xiang L, Tang S, Ahmad M, Xing L. High Resolution X-ray-Induced Acoustic Tomography. Scientific Reports 6:26118, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27189746.
15. Müller K, Datta S, Ahmad M, Choi J, Moore T, Pung L, Niebler C, Gold GE, Maier A, Fahrig R. Interventional dual-energy imaging-Feasibility of rapid kV-switching on a C-arm CT system. Medical Physics. Medical Physics 43(10):5537-5546, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
16. Kothary, Müller K, Datta S, Gehrisch S, Moore T, Ahmad M, Louie J, Wang D, Hwang G, Sze D. Utility of dual-phase cone-beam CT: Can it predict tumor response after super-selective TACE for HCC?. Journal of Vascular Interventional Radiology 27(3):S86, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
17. Bazalova-Carter M, Ahmad M, Matsuura T, Takao S, Matsuo Y, Fahrig R, Shirato H, Umegaki K, Xing L. Proton-induced x-ray fluorescence CT imaging. Medical Physics 42(2):900-7, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25652502.
18. Martin R, Rubinstein A, Ahmad M, Court L, Pan T. Evaluation of intrinsic respiratory signal determination methods for 4D CBCT adapted for mice. Medical Physics 42(1):154-64, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25563256.
19. Bazalova-Carter M, M, Ahmad, Xing L, Fahrig R. Experimental validation of L-shell x-ray fluorescence computed tomography imaging: phantom study. Journal of Medical Imaging 2(4):43501:1-7, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
20. Ahmad M, Xiang L, Yousefi S, Xing L. Theoretical detection threshold of the proton acoustic range verification technique. Medical Physics 42(10):5735-5744, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
21. Ahmad M, Bazalova M, Fahrig R, Xing L. Optimized detector angular configuration increases the sensitivity of X-ray fluorescence computed tomography (XFCT). IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 34(5):1140-1147, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
22. Ahmad M, Bazalova M, Xiang L, Xing L. Order of magnitude sensitivity increase in X-ray Fluorescence Computed Tomography (XFCT) imaging with an optimized spectro-spatial detector configuration: theory and simulation. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 33(5):1119-28, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24770916.
23. Wang C, Volotskova O, Lu K, Ahmad M, Sun C, Xing L, Lin W. Synergistic assembly of heavy metal clusters and luminescent organic bridging ligands in metal-organic frameworks for highly efficient X-ray scintillation. Journal of the American Chemical Society 136(17):6171-4, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24730683.
24. Osakada Y, Pratx G, Sun C, Sakamoto M, Ahmad M, Volotskova O, Ong Q, Teranishi T, Harada Y, Xing L, Cui B. Hard X-ray-induced optical luminescence via biomolecule-directed metal clusters. Chemical Communications 50(27):3549-51, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24463467.
25. Riegel AC, Bucci MK, Mawlawi OR, Ahmad M, Luo D, Chandler A, Pan T. Defining internal target volume using positron emission tomography for radiation therapy planning of moving lung tumors. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 15(1):4600, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24423860.
26. Bazalova M, Ahmad M, Pratx G, Xing L. L-shell x-ray fluorescence computed tomography (XFCT) imaging of Cisplatin. Physics in Medicine and Biology 59(1):219-32, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24334507.
27. Pan T, Riegel AC, Ahmad MU, Sun X, Chang JY, Luo D. New weighted maximum-intensity-projection images from cine CT for delineation of the lung tumor plus motion. Medical Physics 40(6):061901, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23718592.
28. Castillo R, Castillo E, Fuentes D, Ahmad M, Wood AM, Ludwig MS, Guerrero T. A reference dataset for deformable image registration spatial accuracy evaluation using the COPDgene study archive. Physics in Medicine and Biology 58(9):2861-77, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23571679.
29. Yan H, Wang X, Yin W, Pan T, Ahmad M, Mou X, Cerviño L, Jia X, Jiang SB. Extracting respiratory signals from thoracic cone beam CT projections. Physics in Medicine and Biology 58(5):1447-64, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23399757.
30. Ahmad M, Pan T. Target-specific optimization of four-dimensional cone beam computed tomography. Medical Physics 39(9):5683-96, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22957634.
31. Ahmad M, Balter P, Pan T. Four-dimensional volume-of-interest reconstruction for cone-beam computed tomography-guided radiation therapy. Medical Physics 38(10):5646-56, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21992381.
32. Riegel AC, Bucci MK, Mawlawi OR, Johnson V, Ahmad M, Sun X, Luo D, Chandler AG, Pan T. Target definition of moving lung tumors in positron emission tomography: correlation of optimal activity concentration thresholds with object size, motion extent, and source-to-background ratio. Medical Physics 37(4):1742-52, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20443495.
33. Ahmad, M, Liu Y, Slavens ZW, Low R, Merkle E, Hwang KP, Vu A, Ma J. A method for automatic identification of water and fat images from a symmetrically sampled dual-echo Dixon technique. Magn Reson Imaging 28(3):427-33, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20061107.
34. Riegel AC, Ahmad M, Sun X, Pan T. Dose calculation with respiration-averaged CT processed from cine CT without a respiratory surrogate. Medical Physics 35(12):5738-47, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 19175131.

Invited Articles

1. Jones, Ahmad, Raza, Chen, Siewerdsen. Cone-beam CT with a noncircular (sine-on-sphere) orbit: imaging performance of a clinical system for image-guided interventions. Journal of Medical Imaging. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39185476.
2. Govyadinov P, Layman RR, Netherton TJ, Mumme R, Jones AK, Court LE, Ahmad M. Robust Automated Method of Spatial Resolution Measurement in Radiotherapy CT Simulation Images. Journal of App CLin Med Phys, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
3. Ahmad M, Pratx G, Bazalova M, Xing L. X-ray Luminescence and X-ray fluorescence computed tomography: new molecular imaging modalities. IEEE Access 2:1051-1061, 2014. e-Pub 2014.

Other Articles

1. Pung L, Ahmad M, Mueller K, Rosenberg J, Stave C, Hwang GL, Shah R, Kothary N The Role of Cone-Beam CT in Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Journal of Vascular Interventional Radiology 28(3):334-341, 2017. PMID: 28109724.

Abstracts

1. Pillai PS, Siewerdsen JH, Rypinski T, Deva A, Soni B, Jones AK, Ahmad M. Patient-specific NEQ(f): Automatic local and global determination of spatial-frequency-dependent SNR and task performance in clinical CT. SPIE Medical Imaging 2024: Physics of Medical Imaging, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
2. Hong J, et al. WE-1030-IePD-F2-1 - Evaluating the Impact of Using a Standardized Contrast-Enhanced CT Protocol in Image-Guided Liver Ablation Procedures. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
3. Govyadinov P, Netherton T, Jones AK, Layman RR, Court LE, M| <. SU-330-IePD-F8-5 - An Automated Method of Spatial Resolution Measurement in Radiotherapy CT Simulation Images. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
4. Lopez BP, Ahmad M, Jones AK. TU-115-IePD-F9-5 - Retrospective Comparison of Peak Skin Doses Using New in-House Software and Original Hand Calculations in Fluoroscopy Guided Interventions. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
5. et al PP. TH-730-361-2 - Operating Room Quality Assurance (ORQA): Statistical Process Control and Quantitative Imaging Metrology for Intraoperative CT. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
6. Jones AK, Ahmad M, Raza S, Chen S, Siewerdsen JH. Cone-beam CT with a noncircular (sine-on-sphere) orbit: imaging performance of a clinical system for image-guided interventions. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
7. Thomas, M, Ahmad, M, Jacobsen, M, Wagner-Bartak, N, Jensen, C. Global Noise Analysis of Single and Dual Source CT for Obese Patients. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
8. Rubinstein, A, Ahmad, M, Feng, J, Codina, R, Svolos, P. An Evaluation of Automated Quality Assurance and Physics Testing of Mobile CT Units. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
9. Ahmad, M, Jacobsen, M, Cody, D, Surabhi, V. Quantitative Accuracy of Virtual Non-Contrast Imaging in Various Dual-Energy CT Scanners. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
10. Ahmad, M, Thai, L, Feng, J. Evaluation of Image Quality in Fluoroscopic System. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
11. Vernekohl, Ahmad D, M, Chinn, G, Xing, L. SU‐G‐IeP3‐10: Molecular Imaging with Clinical X‐Ray Sources and Compton Cameras. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
12. Yousefi, s, Ahmad, M, Xiang, L, Chen, Y, Zhang, M, Tang, S, Zou, J. TU‐FG‐BRB‐08: Challenges, Limitations and Future Outlook Towards Clinical Translation of Proton Acoustic Range Verification. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
13. Vernekohl, D, Ahmad, M, Chinn, g, Xing, l. On-Board Molecular Imaging (OBMI) for Radiation Therapy. American Society for Radiation Oncology, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
14. Vernekohl, D, Streicher, M, Ahmad, M, Xing, l, He, z. Comparison of a large area czt detector to a spectroscopic cdte detector for x-ray fluorescence computed tomography. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
15. Vernekohl, D, Ahmad, M, Chinn, g, Xing, l. X-ray fluorescence computed tomography with a compton camera for a clinical application. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
16. Yousefi, s, Ahmad, M, Xiang, L, Chen, Y, Zhang, M, Tang, S, Zou, W. From Simulation Studies to Clinical Measurements: Challenges, Limitations, and Future Outlook in Proton Acoustic Range Verification. American Society for Radiation Oncology, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
17. Mueller, N, Datta, s, Gehrisch, S, Moore, T, Ahmad, M, Louie, J, Wang, C. Utility of dual-phase cone-beam CT: Can it predict tumor response after super-selective TACE for HCC?. Society of Interventional Radiology, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
18. Xiang, x, Tang, S, Ahmad, M, Xing, L. TH‐AB‐209‐07: High Resolution X‐Ray‐Induced Acoustic Computed Tomography. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
19. Martin, R, Ahmad, M, Pan, T. SU‐G‐BRA‐11: Tumor Tracking in An Iterative Volume of Interest Based 4D CBCT Reconstruction. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
20. Xiang, L, Tang, S, Ahmad, M, Xing, L. XACT: A Novel Imaging Technique for Radiation Therapy Guidance. American Society for Radiation Oncology, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
21. Ahmad, M, Xiang, L, Xing, L. WE‐EF‐303‐09: Proton‐Acoustic Range Verification in Proton Therapy. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
22. Bazalova-Carter, Ahmad M, M, Xing, L, Fahrig, R. TH‐AB‐204‐09: High‐Sensitivity L‐Shell X‐Ray Fluorescence CT Imaging of Gold. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
23. Bazalova, M, Ahmad, M, Zing, L, Fahrig, R. X-ray Fluorescence Imaging of Superficial Malignancies Using Gold Nanoparticles. American Society for Radiation Oncology, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
24. Bazalova, M, Ahmad, M, Fahrig, R, Zing, L. TU‐A‐9A‐09: Proton Beam X‐Ray Fluorescence CT. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
25. Xiang, L, Fahimian, B, Ahmad, M, Buyyounouski, M, Xing, L. High Precision Focal Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer Guided by Dual-Mode Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging. American Society for Radiation Oncology, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
26. Ahmad, M, Bazalova, M, Fahring, R, Xing, L. TU‐A‐9A‐05: First Experimental Demonstration of the Anisotropic Detection Principle in X‐Ray Fluorescence Computed Tomography. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
27. Ahmad, M, Bazalova, M, Xiang, L, Xing, L. X-Ray Fluorescence CT as a Novel Imaging Modality for Improved Radiation Therapy Target Delineation. American Society for Radiation Oncology, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
28. Bazalova‐Carter, M, Ahmad, M, Matsuura, T, Takao, S, Matsuo, Y, Fahrig, R. TH‐AB‐204‐11: X‐Ray Fluorescence CT Induced by Proton Beam: Experiments and Simulations. American Society for Radiation Oncology, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
29. Martin, R, Rubinstein, Ahmad, M, Pan, T. SU‐D‐144‐02: Four‐Dimensional Cone Beam CT for a Small Animal Image Guided Radiation Therapy System Without Use of An External Respiratory Monitoring System. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
30. Martin, R, Ahmad, M, Hugo, G, Pan, T. MO‐F‐WAB‐10: Evaluation of Scan Time Required for Motion Tracking in Four‐Dimensional Cone Beam CT Using Patient Data Sets. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
31. Fave, X, Balter, P, Martin, R, Ahmad, M, Pan, T, Court, L. SU‐E‐J‐168: Investigating the Feasibility of Vertical CBCT Imaging Using the Varian TrueBeam LINAC. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
32. Ahmad, M, Bazalova, M, Xing, L. TH‐A‐141‐05: Ultra‐Sensitive X‐Ray Fluorescence Computed Tomography. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
33. Ahmad, M, Pan, T. SU‐E‐J‐129: Target‐Specific Optimization of Four‐Dimensional Cone Beam Computed Tomography. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2012. e-Pub 2012.
34. Yan, H, Wang, X, Yin, W, Pat, T, Ahmad, M, Mou, X, Cervino L, Jia, X, Jiang, S. TU‐C‐213CD‐12: Respiratory Signal Extraction from Thoracic Cone Beam CT Projections. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2012. e-Pub 2012.
35. Ahmad, M, Pan, T. Four-dimensional volume-of-interest reconstruction for cone-beam computerized tomography based image-guided radiation therapy of the lung. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2011. e-Pub 2011.
36. Ahmad, M, Pan, T. Optimization of four-dimensional cone-beam computed tomography in image-guided radiation therapy of the lung. The International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2011. e-Pub 2011.
37. Riegel, A, Bucci, M, Mawlawi, O, Ahmad, M, Luo, D, Chandler, A, Pan, T. Development of new PET tumor delineation method for radiation therapy planning of NSCLC patients. Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2010. e-Pub 2010.
38. Riegel, A, Bucci, M, Mawlawi, O, Ahmad, M, Sun, X, Chandler, A, Pan, T. Target Definition of Lung Cancer with PET/CT: Threshold Dependence on Lesion Size, Motion Extent, and Signal-to-background. American Society for Radiation Oncology, 2009. e-Pub 2009.
39. Ahmad, M, Liu, Y, SLaven, Z, Low, R, Merkle, E, Hwang, K, Vu, A, Ma, J. SU‐FF‐I‐124: Automatic Identification of Water and Fat Images From a Symmetrically‐Sampled Dual‐Echo Dixon Technique. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2009. e-Pub 2009.
40. Riegel, A, Bucci, M, Ahmad, M, Sun, X, Chandler, A, Mawlawi, Pan O, T. SU‐FF‐J‐175: Segmentation of Moving Targets in PET: Threshold Dependence On Lesion Size, Motion Extent, and Signal‐To‐Background. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2009. e-Pub 2009.
41. Pan, T, Chang, J, Riegel, A, Ahmad, M, Sun, X, Luo, D. New Weighted Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP) Images for Assessing Tumor Motion in the Thorax Without a Respiratory Surrogate. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2008. e-Pub 2008.
42. Ahmad, M, Reigel, A, Pan, T. SU‐GG‐I‐07: Evaluation of Cine‐CT for Quantifying Respiratory Displacement of Lung Tumors Without a Respiratory Surrogate. The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2008. e-Pub 2008.