Topas Materials and Sources for Male XCAT Phantom

• Cameron Poe, Ev Sun, 2022, Topas Material Definitions for the XCAT Male Phantom.
• ICRP Publication 89. Includes elemental compositions for use in computational phantoms.
• Annex B from Annals of the ICRP Publication 110. Includes various organic tissue compositions and densities for use in computational phantoms.
• Annex B from Annals of the ICRP Publication 145. More organic tissue compositions and densities for use in computational phantoms.
• Bhuiyan, Nasir Uddin, A Revised Model for Radiation Dosimetry in the Human Gastrointestinal Track, 2003. Used as an example for estimating unknown tissue compositions/densities as soft tissue.
• ICRU, Photon, Electron, Proton, and Neutron Interaction Data for Body Tissues, Report 46, 28 February 1992. Further organic tissue compositions and densities. Used specifically for soft tissue data.

Positron Kinetic Energy Spectrum at Decay for Fluorine-18

• Jacobson, Orit, et al. Fluorine-18 Radiochemistry, Labeling Strategies and Synthetic Routes, 2015. Contains end point energy value for Fluorine-18.
• Craig S Levin and Edward J Hoffman 1999 Phys. Med. Biol. 44 781. Includes analytical equation for energy at decay for Fluorine-18.

Higher-Order Single Value Decomposition (HOSVD) Denoising

• Rajwade et al., Using the Higher Order Singular Value Decomposition (HOSVD) for Video Denoising. Useful introductory paper for general HOSVD denoising. Gives good theoretical background.
• Liu et al., Postreconstruction filtering of 3D PET images by using weighted higher-order singular value decomposition. Applications of HOSVD to PET in two and three dimensions. Includes details about standard HOSVD (HOSVD-S), Weiner-weighted HOSVD (HOSVD-W), and a proposed HOSVD-KSW involving HOSVD-W and Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests.