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• Ex vivo quantification of lanthanum and gadolinium in post-mortem human tibiae with estimated barium and iodine concentrations using K x-ray fluorescence  Journal Articles
• In vivo activation analysis of spinal calcium using 25 keV neutrons  Journal Articles
• In vivoinvestigation of a new¹⁰⁹Cd γ-ray induced K-XRF bone lead measurement system  Journal Articles
• Thermobifida fusca cellulases exhibit limited surface diffusion on bacterial micro‐crystalline cellulose  Journal Articles
• A Genetic-Algorithm-Aided Stochastic Optimization Model for Regional Air Quality Management under Uncertainty  Journal Articles
• A Monte Carlo and physical phantom evaluation of quantitative In-111 SPECT  Journal Articles
• A Multinational Pharmacoeconomic Evaluation of Acute Major Depressive Disorder (MDD): a Comparison of Cost-Effectiveness Between Venlafaxine, SSRIs and TCAs  Journal Articles
• A One-Year Economic Evaluation of Six Alternative Strategies for the Management of Uninvestigated Upper Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Canadian Primary Care  Journal Articles
• A Simple Model for Complex Dynamical Transitions in Epidemics  Journal Articles
• A comparison of the ability of different propensity score models to balance measured variables between treated and untreated subjects: a Monte Carlo study  Journal Articles
• A comprehensive Monte Carlo simulation of the neutron response of multi-element microdosimetric detectors based on THick Gas Electron Multiplier  Journal Articles
• A diffusion theory model of spatially resolved fluorescence from depth-dependent fluorophore concentrations  Journal Articles
• A diffusion theory model of spatially resolved, steady-state diffuse reflectance for the noninvasive determination of tissue optical properties in vivo  Journal Articles
• A dynamic model for ALA-PDT of skin: simulation of temporal and spatial distributions of ground-state oxygen, photosensitizer and singlet oxygen  Journal Articles
• A homology model of the pore domain of a voltage-gated calcium channel is consistent with available SCAM data  Journal Articles
• A method detection limit for potentialin vivoarsenic measurements with a 50 W x-ray tube  Journal Articles
• A method for energy window optimization for quantitative tasks that includes the effects of model-mismatch on bias: application to Y-90 bremsstrahlung SPECT imaging  Journal Articles
• A multivariate Poisson-log normal mixture model for clustering transcriptome sequencing data  Journal Articles
• A primary method for determination of optical parameters of turbid samples and application to intralipid between 550 and 1630nm  Journal Articles
• A statistical investigation of the scaling factor method of beta‐ray dose distribution derivation: The scaling factor for water to bone  Journal Articles
• Access and Binding of Local Anesthetics in the Closed Sodium Channel  Journal Articles
• Accuracy of Noninvasive in vivo Measurements of Photosensitizer Uptake Based on a Diffusion Model of Reflectance Spectroscopy  Journal Articles
• Amyloid-β_25–35peptides aggregate into cross-β sheets in unsaturated anionic lipid membranes at high peptide concentrations  Journal Articles
• An Increase in Cellular Size Variance Contributes to the Increase in Ultrasound Backscatter During Cell Death  Journal Articles
• An empirical analysis of milk addiction  Journal Articles
• An evaluation of the EGS4 and CYLTRAN Monte Carlo codes with regard to boundary beta‐ray dosimetry by comparison with experimental beta‐ray dose backscatter factors  Journal Articles
• An inexact chance-constrained programming model for water quality management in Binhai New Area of Tianjin, China  Journal Articles
• Analysis of inter-residue contacts reveals folding stabilizers in P-loops of potassium, sodium, and TRPV channels  Journal Articles
• Anisotropy of light propagation in human skin  Journal Articles
• Anomalous Diffusion of Proteins Due to Molecular Crowding  Journal Articles
• Application of the scaling factor method to estimation of beta dose distributions for dissimilar media separated by a planar interface  Journal Articles
• Bayesian cure rate models induced by frailty in survival analysis  Journal Articles
• Bayesian inference for the log-symmetric autoregressive conditional duration model  Journal Articles
• Binding of solvated peptide (EPLQLKM) with a graphene sheet via simulated coarse-grained approach  Journal Articles
• CHARACTERIZATION OF A LANTHANUM BROMIDE DETECTOR FOR EYE LENS DOSIMETRY AT THE CANDU NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS BASED ON DIRECT MEASUREMENTS OF THE GAMMA-RAY SPECTRA  Journal Articles
• COMPREHENSIVE RADIATION DOSE MEASUREMENTS AND MONTE CARLO SIMULATION FOR THE⁷Li(p,n) ACCELERATOR NEUTRON FIELD  Journal Articles
• Calculation of radiation-induced DNA damage from photons and tritium beta-particles  Journal Articles
• Calculation of radiation-induced DNA damage from photons and tritium beta-particles  Journal Articles
• Calibration of the¹²⁵I-induced x-ray fluorescence spectrometry-based system ofin vivobone strontium determinations using hydroxyapatite as a phantom material: a simulation study  Journal Articles
• Canada's Population Health Model (POHEM)  Journal Articles
• Chemoprevention: Drug pricing and mortality  Journal Articles
• Chloride Channels of Glycine and GABA Receptors with Blockers: Monte Carlo Minimization and Structure-Activity Relationships  Journal Articles
• Classification of errors in locating a rigid body  Journal Articles
• Coherent normalization forin vivomeasurements of gadolinium in bone  Journal Articles
• Coherent normalization of finger strontium XRF measurements: feasibility and limitations  Journal Articles
• Comments on the paper `Monte Carlo simulation of source-excitedin vivox-ray fluorescence measurements of heavy metals'  Journal Articles
• Comparing methods to estimate treatment effects on a continuous outcome in multicentre randomized controlled trials: A simulation study  Journal Articles
• Comparing the rhythm and melody of speech and music: The case of British English and French  Journal Articles
• Comparison of Residence Time Estimation Methods for Radioimmunotherapy Dosimetry and Treatment Planning—Monte Carlo Simulation Studies  Journal Articles
• Comparison of the ability of double‐robust estimators to correct bias in propensity score matching analysis. A Monte Carlo simulation study  Journal Articles
• Compensation for spill-in and spill-out partial volume effects in cardiac PET imaging  Journal Articles
• Comprehensive characterization of ExacTrac stereoscopic image guidance system using Monte Carlo and Spektr simulations  Journal Articles
• Computational Structural Pharmacology and Toxicology of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels  Chapters
• Conditioning on the propensity score can result in biased estimation of common measures of treatment effect: A Monte Carlo study (p n/a) by Peter C. Austin, Paul Grootendorst, Sharon‐Lise T. Normand, Geoffrey M. Anderson, Statistics in Medicine, Published Online: 16 June 2006. DOI: 10.1002/sim.2618  Journal Articles
• Conditioning on the propensity score can result in biased estimation of common measures of treatment effect: a Monte Carlo study  Journal Articles
• Conformation transitions of a polyelectrolyte chain: A replica-exchange Monte-Carlo study  Journal Articles
• Conformational Analysis of the Ca²⁺-Bound Opioid Peptides: Implications for Ligand-Receptor Interaction  Journal Articles
• Conformational Studies on Calcium Binding BytBoc-Leu-Pro-Tyr-Ala-NHCH₃, a Tyrosine Kinase Substrate, in a Nonpolar Solvent  Journal Articles
• Correction: The potential role of borophene as a radiosensitizer in boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) and particle therapy (PT)  Journal Articles
• Cost effectiveness of outpatient treatment for febrile neutropaenia in adult cancer patients  Journal Articles
• Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Utility of Long-Term Management Strategies for Heartburn  Journal Articles
• Cost-effectiveness analysis of Helicobacter pylori screening in prevention of gastric cancer in Chinese  Journal Articles
• Cost-effectiveness analysis of oxycodone with naloxone versus oxycodone alone for the management of moderate-to-severe pain in patients with opioid-induced constipation in Canada  Journal Articles
• Cost-effectiveness modelling of recombinant FSH versus urinary FSH in assisted reproduction techniques in the UK  Journal Articles
• Decoupled echo state networks with lateral inhibition  Journal Articles
• Design of a Hybrid Computational Fluid Dynamics–Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Methodology for Radioactive Particulate Resuspension Studies  Journal Articles
• Design of a digital phantom population for myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging research  Journal Articles
• Design study of a high-resolution breast-dedicated PET system built from cadmium zinc telluride detectors  Journal Articles
• Determination of the optical properties of semi-infinite turbid media from frequency-domain reflectance close to the source  Journal Articles
• Determination of the optical properties of turbid media from a single Monte Carlo simulation  Journal Articles
• Development and Validation of a Monte Carlo Simulation Tool for Multi-Pinhole SPECT  Journal Articles
• Development and evaluation of a model-based downscatter compensation method for quantitative I-131 SPECT  Journal Articles
• Development and evaluation of an improved quantitative ⁹⁰Y bremsstrahlung SPECT method  Journal Articles
• Development of New Deoxycytidine Kinase Inhibitors and Noninvasive in Vivo Evaluation Using Positron Emission Tomography  Journal Articles
• Docking flexible ligands in proteins with a solvent exposure- and distance-dependent dielectric function  Journal Articles
• Docking of Verapamil in a Synthetic Ca2+Channel: Formation of a Ternary Complex Involving Ca2+Ions  Journal Articles
• Domains on a Sphere: Neutron Scattering, Models, and Mathematical Formalism  Journal Articles
• Dose calculation in proton therapy using a discovery cross‐domain generative adversarial network (DiscoGAN)  Journal Articles
• Dosimetric and microdosimetric analyses for blood exposed to reactor-derived thermal neutrons  Journal Articles
• Dosimetric properties of the new 125I BrachySeed™ model LS-1 source  Journal Articles
• Double-adjustment in propensity score matching analysis: choosing a threshold for considering residual imbalance  Journal Articles
• Economic analysis of epoetin alfa in critically ill trauma patients  Journal Articles
• Effect of 1O2 quencher depletion on the efficiency of photodynamic therapy  Journal Articles
• Effect of tissue inhomogeneity on beta dose distribution of ³²P  Journal Articles
• Effect of tissue inhomogeneity on dose distribution of point sources of low‐energy electrons  Journal Articles
• Encapsulated Gamma Source Contact Dose Conversion Factors: Updating NCRP-40 Guidance  Journal Articles
• Energy Deposition Pattern from Tritium and Different Energy Photons-A Comparative Study  Journal Articles
• Estimating average attributable fractions with confidence intervals for cohort and case–control studies  Journal Articles
• Estimation of a method detection limit for anin vivoXRF arsenic detection system  Journal Articles
• Estimation of duplication history under a stochastic model for tandem repeats  Journal Articles
• Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of anterior uveitis investigation by Canadian ophthalmologists  Journal Articles
• Evaluation of quantitative imaging methods for organ activity and residence time estimation using a population of phantoms having realistic variations in anatomy and uptake  Journal Articles
• Evaluation of safety and effectiveness of factor VIII treatment in haemophilia A patients with low titre inhibitors or a personal history of inhibitor  Journal Articles
• Evidence for Dual Binding Sites for 1,1,1-Trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane (DDT) in Insect Sodium Channels  Journal Articles
• Evolution of protein interfaces in multimers and fibrils  Journal Articles
• Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Box–Cox Transformation Cure Rate Model and Assessment of Model Misspecification Under Weibull Lifetimes  Journal Articles
• Expectation maximization-based likelihood inference for flexible cure rate models with Weibull lifetimes  Journal Articles
• Fast method for inverse determination of optical parameters from two measured signals  Journal Articles
• Fast modelling of the collimator–detector response in Monte Carlo simulation of SPECT imaging using the angular response function  Journal Articles
• Feasibility study of 3D time‐reversal reconstruction of proton‐induced acoustic signals for dose verification in the head and the liver: A simulation study  Journal Articles
• Feasibility study of patient‐specific dose verification in proton therapy utilizing positron emission tomography (PET) and generative adversarial network (GAN)  Journal Articles
• Feasibility study of range verification based on proton-induced acoustic signals and recurrent neural network  Journal Articles
• Fiber-optic probe design and optical property recovery algorithm for optical biopsy of brain tissue  Journal Articles
• Fitting mechanistic epidemic models to data: A comparison of simple Markov chain Monte Carlo approaches  Journal Articles
• Further investigation of 3D dose verification in proton therapy utilizing acoustic signal, wavelet decomposition and machine learning  Journal Articles
• Generalized gamma frailty model  Journal Articles
• Genome-wide linkage analysis of systolic blood pressure slope using the Genetic Analysis Workshop 13 data sets  Journal Articles
• Glenohumeral stabilizing roles of the scapulohumeral muscles: Implications of muscle geometry  Journal Articles
• Homogeneity/Heterogeneity Hypotheses for Standardized Mortality Ratios Based on Minimum Power‐divergence Estimators  Journal Articles
• Impact of gestational diabetes mellitus screening strategies on perinatal outcomes: A simulation study  Journal Articles
• Implementation of angular response function modeling in SPECT simulations with GATE  Journal Articles
• Improving the in vivo X-ray fluorescence (XRF) measurement of renal mercury  Journal Articles
• Improving the risk assessment of lipophilic persistent environmental chemicals in breast milk  Journal Articles
• Imputation strategies for missing binary outcomes in cluster randomized trials  Journal Articles
• In Silico Activation of KcsA K+ Channel by Lateral Forces Applied to the C-Termini of Inner Helices  Journal Articles
• Incorporation of frailties into a cure rate regression model and its diagnostics and application to melanoma data  Journal Articles
• Inference on cancer screening exam accuracy using population‐level administrative data  Journal Articles
• Integrating spheres for improved skin photodynamic therapy  Journal Articles
• Interaction of calcium channel antagonists with calcium: structural studies on verapamil and its Ca2+ complex  Journal Articles
• Interaction of oxytocin with Ca2+: II. Proton magnetic resonance and molecular modeling studies of conformations of the hormone and its Ca2+ complex.  Journal Articles
• Intercomparison of Monte Carlo radiation transport codes to model TEPC response in low-energy neutron and gamma-ray fields  Journal Articles
• Intersegment Hydrogen Bonds as Possible Structural Determinants of the N/Q/R Site in Glutamate Receptors  Journal Articles
• Interval estimation and optimal design for the within-subject coefficient of variation for continuous and binary variables  Journal Articles
• Investigating coherent normalization and dosimetry for the ²⁴¹Am-La K XRF system  Journal Articles
• Joint modeling of zero-inflated longitudinal measurements and time-to-event outcomes with applications to dynamic prediction.  Journal Articles
• Kinked-Helices Model of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Ion Channel and Its Complexes with Blockers: Simulation by the Monte Carlo Minimization Method  Journal Articles
• Learning hierarchical models: advice for the rest of us  Journal Articles
• Likelihood inference for COM-Poisson cure rate model with interval-censored data and Weibull lifetimes  Journal Articles
• MAgnitude and PHase Thresholding (MAPHT) of noisy complex-valued magnetic resonance images  Journal Articles
• Magnitude and direction of missing confounders had different consequences on treatment effect estimation in propensity score analysis  Journal Articles
• Mapping of Steroids Binding to 17β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 1 Using Monte Carlo Energy Minimization Reveals Alternative Binding Modes  Journal Articles
• Megavoltage imaging with low Z targets: Implementation and characterization of an investigational system  Journal Articles
• Model-based compensation for quantitative¹²³I brain SPECT imaging  Journal Articles
• Model-based crosstalk compensation for simultaneous 99mTc/123I dual-isotope brain SPECT imaging.  Journal Articles
• Modeling Mortality Based on Pollution and Temperature Using a New Birnbaum–Saunders Autoregressive Moving Average Structure with Regressors and Related-Sensors Data  Journal Articles
• Modeling P-Loops Domain of Sodium Channel: Homology with Potassium Channels and Interaction with Ligands  Journal Articles
• Modeling Transmission of Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus AureusAmong Patients Admitted to a Hospital  Conferences
• Modeling the Bullying Prevention Program Preferences of Educators: A Discrete Choice Conjoint Experiment  Journal Articles
• Modeling the effects of musculoskeletal geometry on scapulohumeral muscle moment arms and lines of action  Journal Articles
• Modelling DNA damage induced by different energy photons and tritium beta-particles  Journal Articles
• Model‐based crosstalk compensation for simultaneous dual‐isotope brain SPECT imaging  Journal Articles
• Modified fast adaptive scatter kernel superposition (mfASKS) correction and its dosimetric impact on CBCT‐based proton therapy dose calculation  Journal Articles
• Monte Carlo design study for in vivo bone aluminum measurement using a low energy accelerator beam  Journal Articles
• Monte Carlo investigation of the dosimetric properties of the new Model Pd‐1 source  Journal Articles
• Monte Carlo investigations of distance-dependent effects on energy deposition in K-shell x-ray fluorescence bone lead measurement  Journal Articles
• Monte Carlo modeling of light propagation in highly scattering tissues--II: Comparison with measurements in phantoms.  Journal Articles
• Monte Carlo modeling of light propagation in highly scattering tissues. I. Model predictions and comparison with diffusion theory  Journal Articles
• Monte Carlo modelling of in vivo X-ray fluorescence of lead in the kidney  Journal Articles
• Monte Carlo simulation of neutron irradiation facility developed for accelerator based in vivo neutron activation measurements in human hand bones  Journal Articles
• Monte Carlo simulation of source-excitedin vivox-ray fluorescence measurements of heavy metals  Journal Articles
• Monte Carlo simulation of trabecular bone remodelling and absorbed dose coefficients for tritium and 14C  Conferences
• Monte Carlo simulations of in vivo K-shell X-ray fluorescence bone lead measurement and implications for radiation dosimetry  Journal Articles
• Monte Carlo-energy minimization of correolide in the Kv1.3 channel: possible role of potassium ion in ligand-receptor interactions.  Journal Articles
• Monte Carlo-minimized energy profile of estradiol in the ligand-binding tunnel of 17?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase: Atomic mechanisms of steroid recognition  Journal Articles
• Multi-criteria analysis towards the new end use of recycled water for household laundry: A case study in Sydney  Journal Articles
• Nonparametric Evaluation of Dynamic Disease Risk: A Spatio-Temporal Kernel Approach  Journal Articles
• Normalisation with coherent scatter signal: improvements in the calibration procedure of the -based in vivo XRF bone-Pb measurement  Journal Articles
• Optical properties of normal and diseased human breast tissues in the visible and near infrared  Journal Articles
• Optical properties of porcine skin dermis between 900 nm and 1500 nm  Journal Articles
• Optimising the computerised adaptive test to reliably reduce the burden of administering the CLEFT-Q: A Monte Carlo simulation study  Journal Articles
• Optimization of a Neutron Long Counter Design by Monte Carlo Simulation  Journal Articles
• Optimizing gentamicin conventional and extended interval dosing in neonates using Monte Carlo simulation – a retrospective study  Journal Articles
• Oseltamivir for Treatment of Influenza in Healthy Adults: Pooled Trial Evidence and Cost-Effectiveness Model for Canada  Journal Articles
• Overlapping Binding Sites of Structurally Different Antiarrhythmics Flecainide and Propafenone in the Subunit Interface of Potassium Channel Kv2.1*  Journal Articles
• Phenylalkylamines in calcium channels: computational analysis of experimental structures  Journal Articles
• Phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear data in haematophagous flies support the paraphyly of the genus Stomoxys (Diptera: Muscidae)  Journal Articles
• Phylogenetic and functional analyses of the cytochrome P450 family 4  Journal Articles
• Probabilistic Analysis of Cost-Effectiveness Models: Choosing between Treatment Strategies for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease  Journal Articles
• Probabilistic Analysis of Cost-Effectiveness Models: Choosing between Treatment Strategies for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease  Journal Articles
• Proton FLASH: passive scattering or pencil beam scanning?  Journal Articles
• Providing Information to Parents of Children with Mental Health Problems: A Discrete Choice Conjoint Analysis of Professional Preferences  Journal Articles
• Quantification of bioluminescence images of point source objects using diffusion theory models  Journal Articles
• Quantification of fluorophore concentration in tissue-simulating media by fluorescence measurements with a single optical fiber  Journal Articles
• Quantification of pure beta spectra in mixed beta gamma fields as part of eye lens dosimetry at CANDU power plants  Journal Articles
• Quantitative Phylogenomics of Within-Species Mitogenome Variation: Monte Carlo and Non-Parametric Analysis of Phylogeographic Structure among Discrete Transatlantic Breeding Areas of Harp Seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus)  Journal Articles
• Quasi-Monte Carlo based global uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in modeling free product migration and recovery from petroleum-contaminated aquifers  Journal Articles
• RADIOLOGICAL HAZARD ESTIMATES FROM CONTAMINATED C7 CANISTERS ON THE C4 PROTECTIVE MASK  Journal Articles
• Reconciling early-outbreak estimates of the basic reproductive number and its uncertainty: framework and applications to the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak  Journal Articles
• Reconstruction of organ doses for patients undergoing computed tomography examinations in Canada 1992–2019  Journal Articles
• Renewal-process approximation of a stochastic threshold model for electrical neural stimulation.  Journal Articles
• Reproducing the Location-Based Context-Specific Proportion Congruent Effect for Frequency Unbiased Items: A Reply to Hutcheon and Spieler (2016)  Journal Articles
• Screening and Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Critically Ill Patients  Journal Articles
• Sequential Monte Carlo for response adaptive randomized trials  Journal Articles
• Side chain flexibility and the pore dimensions in the GABAA receptor  Journal Articles
• Simulation Models of Misclassification Error for Single Thresholds of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Due to Assay Bias and Imprecision  Journal Articles
• Simulation studies of time reversal‐based protoacoustic reconstruction for range and dose verification in proton therapy  Journal Articles
• Simultaneous Tc-99m/I-123 dual-radionuclide myocardial perfusion/innervation imaging using Siemens IQ-SPECT with SMARTZOOM collimator  Journal Articles
• Spatial heterogeneity, nonlinear dynamics and chaos in infectious diseases  Journal Articles
• Spatial resolution recovery utilizing multi-ray tracing and graphic processing unit in PET image reconstruction  Journal Articles
• Statistics Commentary Series  Journal Articles
• Structural Model for Dihydropyridine Binding to L-type Calcium Channels  Journal Articles
• Structural Model for Phenylalkylamine Binding to L-type Calcium Channels  Journal Articles
• Study of PET intrinsic spatial resolution and contrast recovery improvement for PET/MRI systems  Journal Articles
• Study of light transport inside scintillation crystals for PET detectors  Journal Articles
• System design for in vivo neutron activation analysis measurements of manganese in the human brain: based on Monte Carlo modeling  Journal Articles
• Technical Note: Machine learning approaches for range and dose verification in proton therapy using proton‐induced positron emitters  Journal Articles
• The Influence of Track Structure on the Understanding of Relative Biological Effectiveness for Induction of Chromosomal Exchanges in Human Lymphocytes  Journal Articles
• The Nanostructured Origin of Deformation Twinning  Journal Articles
• The Projection of Burden of Disease in Islamic Republic of Iran to 2025  Journal Articles
• The cellular environment in computer simulations of radiation-induced damage to DNA  Journal Articles
• The effects of stochastic neural activity in a model predicting intensity perception with cochlear implants: low-rate stimulation  Journal Articles
• The potential role of borophene as a radiosensitizer in boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) and particle therapy (PT)  Journal Articles
• The validity of the density scaling method in primary electron transport for photon and electron beams  Journal Articles
• Therapeutic potential of 90Y- and 131I-labeled anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody in treating non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with pulmonary involvement: a Monte Carlo-based dosimetric analysis.  Journal Articles
• Time course and robustness of ERP object and face differences  Journal Articles
• Two approaches to forecast Ebola synthetic epidemics  Journal Articles
• Uncertainty calculations for the measurement ofin vivobone lead by x-ray fluorescence  Journal Articles
• Use and misuse of cost-effectiveness terminology in the gastroenterology literature: a systematic review  Journal Articles
• Valence-bond quantum Monte Carlo algorithms defined on trees  Journal Articles
• X-ray fluorescence and energy dispersive x-ray diffraction for the quantification of elemental concentrations in breast tissue  Journal Articles