Some physical aspects in evidence-based virtual medicine
Paolo Russo
Dept. of Physics “Ettore Pancini”, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Abstract: Evidence-based medicine relies on clinical trials. In the field of X-ray imaging diagnostics, virtual imaging trials (VITs) are emerging that reproduce radiographic examinations in silico, hence saving time, costs, and radiation dose to patients when assessing technology performance, patient dosimetry, and in regulatory approval of new imaging technologies. These studies require an accurate digital description of the organ's shape and internal anatomy, using so-called computational phantoms (voxelized or mesh type). The development of these personalized whole-body or organ-specific phantoms (patient’s digital twin) is an active field of research, at the basis of VITs in medicine. The seminar will describe studies at Federico II University for VITs in 2D and 3D mammography, dedicated breast tomography, computed tomography for whole body and for bone imaging, centered on the development of digital anthropomorphic phantoms and Monte Carlo simulations for personalized X-ray dose estimation and image quality assessment.
Seminar takes place on Tuesday, February 10th 2026 at 2:00 PM
in the IEAP meeting room, Praha 1, Husova 240/5.
| Ing. Bartoloměj Biskup, Ph.D. seminar chair |
doc. Ing. Ivan Štekl, CSc. director of IEAP |
doc. Dr. André Sopczak IEEE CS - NPSS chair |
NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY CHAPTER
IEEE Czechoslovakia section
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