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2012

Tetard, L.; Passian, A.; Jung, S.; Rogouskas, A.; and Davison, B., "Development of New Methods in Scanning Probe Microscopy for Lignocellulosic Biomass Characterization", Industrial Biotechnology, Vol. 8, No. 4, August 2012. PDF Document

Passian, A. and Thundat, T., “The abilities of instabilities,” Nature 487, 440–441 (2012). PDF Document

Farahi, R.; Passian, A.; Tetard, L.; Thundat, T., “Critical issues in sensor science to aid food and water safety,” ACS Nano 6(6), 4548–4556 (2012). PDF Document

Farahi, R.; Passian, A.; Tetard, L.; Thundat, T., “Pump-probe photothermal spectroscopy using quantum cascade lasers,” J. Physics D, 45, 125101 (2012). PDF Document

Lereu, A.; Passian, A.; Farahi, R.; Abel-Tiberini, L.; Tetard, L.; Thundat, T., “Spectroscopy and imaging of arrays of nanorods toward nanopolarimetry”, Nanotechnology 23, 045701 (2012). PDF Document

Lereu, A.; Passian, A.; Dumas, Ph., “Near field optical microscopy: a brief review,” International Journal Of Nanotechnology 9(3), 488-501 (2012). PDF Document

Bonod, N.; Bouhelier, A.; Koenderink, A.; and Passian, A., “Optical Antennas” International Journal of Optics, Volume 2012 (2012), doi:10.1155/2012/365109. PDF Document

Tetard, L.; Passian, A.; Farahi, R.; Voy, B.; Thundat, T., “Applications of Subsurface Microscopy,” in Nanotoxicity: Methods and Protocols, Edited by Joshua Reineke, Series: Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 926, 2012 (ISBN 978-1-62703-001-4) PDF Document

Karakaya, M.; Barstow,D.; Villalobos, H. S.; Thompson, J. and Boehnen, C., “Gaze Estimation for ORNL Biometric Eye Model in Off-angle Iris Recognition”, submitted to IEEE Workshop on the Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2013), (2012).

Karakaya, M.; Barstow, D.; Villalobos, H. S. and Boehnen, C., “An Iris Segmentation Algorithm based on Edge Orientation for Off-angle Iris Recognition”, submitted to SPIE Electronic Imaging, (2012).

Karakaya, M. and Qi, H., “Communication and Energy Efficiency in Visual Sensor Networks for People Localization”, submitted to 3rd Future of Instrumentation International Workshop, (2012).

Karakaya, M.; Kerekes, R.; Morrell-Falvey, J.; Foster, C. and Retterer, S., “Analysis of Tight Junction Formation and Integrity”, accepted by 34th IEEE International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology, San Diego CA, (2012).

Villalobos, H. S.; Barstow, D.; Karakaya, M.; Chaum, E. and Boehnen, C., “ORNL Biometric Eye Model for Iris Recognition”, accepted by 5th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics, (2012). 

Karakaya, M. and Qi, H.;“Coverage Estimation in Heterogeneous Visual Sensor Networks”, 8th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, Hangzhou, China, (2012).

Karakaya, M. and Qi, H.,“Collaborative Localization in Visual Sensor Networks”, under 2nd revision for ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, (2012).

Karakaya, M. and Qi, H., “Coverage Estimation for Crowded Targets in Visual Sensor Networks”, accepted by ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, (2012).

Raffo-Caiado, A.; Boehnen, C.; Guzzardo, T.; and Ziock, K.-P., "Field Trial of a Highly Portable Coded Aperture Gamma Ray and 3D Imaging System", 34th ESARDA Working Group Meeting, May (2012) PDF Document for more information PDF Document

2011

Tetard, L.; Passian, A.; Farahi, R.; Davison, B.; Jung, S.; Ragaukas, A.; Lereu, A.; Thundat, T., “Nanometrology of delignified Populus using mode synthesizing atomic force microscopy”, Nanotechnology 22(46), 465702 (2011). PDF Document

Passian, A.; Koucheckian, S.; Yakubovich, S., “Index integral representations for connection between cartesian, cylindrical, and spheroidal systems,” Integral Transforms and Special Functions 22(8), 549-560 (2011). PDF Document

Tetard, L.; Passian, A.; Farahi, R.; Eslami, S.; Jalili, N.; Thundat, T., “Virtual Resonance and Frequency Difference Generation by van der Waals Interaction,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 106(18), 180801 (2011). PDF Document

Tetard, L.; Passian, A.; Farahi, R.; Davison, B.; Lereu, A.; Thundat, T., “Optical and plasmonic spectroscopy with cantilever shaped materials”, J. Physics D 44(44), 445102 (2011). PDF Document

Brissinger, D.; Lereu, A.; Salomon, L.; Charvolin, T.; Cluzel, B.; Dumas, C.; Passian, A.; de Fornel, F., “Discontinuity induced angular distribution of photon plasmon coupling,” Optics Express, 19(18), 17750-17757 (2011). PDF Document

Tetard, L.; Passian, A.; Farahi, R.; Davison, B.; Thundat, T.,“Optomechanical spectroscopy with broadband interferometric and quantum cascade laser sources,” Optics Letters 36(16), 3251-3253 (2011). PDF Document

Karakaya, M. and Qi, H.,“Distributed Target Localization using a Progressive Certainty Map in Visual Sensor Networks”, Journal of Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 9, pp. 576–590, (2011).

Kerekes, R.; Martins, R.; Davis, D.; Karakaya, M.; Gleason, S. and Dyer, M., “Automated Tracing of Horizontal Neuron Processes During Retinal Development”, Neurochemical Research, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 583-593, (2011).

Martins, R.; Davis, D.; Kerekes,R.; Zhang, J.; Bayazitov, I.. Hiler, D.; Karakaya, M.; Frase, S.; Gleason, S.; Zakharenko, S.; Johnson, D. and Dyer, M., “Retinoblastoma (Rb) regulates laminar dendritic arbor reorganization in retinal horizontal neurons”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 108: 21111-21116, (2011).

Dabbs, B.; Hayward, J.; Ziock, K.-P.; Boehnen, C.; Bogard, J.; and Raffo-Caiado, A., "Characterization of the Imaging Performance of a Portable, Coded-Aperture, Gamma-Ray Imager for use in Enrichment Plants", INMM 52nd Annual Meeting, July (2011). PDF Document

Karakaya, M. and Qi, H.,“Detection-based Tracking for Crowded Targets in Distributed Visual Sensor Networks”, 2nd Future of Instrumentation International Workshop, Oak Ridge TN, (2011).

Karakaya, M.; Kerekes, R.; Gleason, S.; Martins, R. and Dyer, M., “Automatic Detection, Segmentation and Classification of Retinal Horizontal Neurons in Large-scale 3D Confocal Imagery”, Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Vol. 7962, Orlando FL, (2011).

2010

Kim, S.; Yi, D.; Passian, A. and Thundat, T.,“Observation of an anomalous mass effect in microcantilever-based biosensing caused by adsorbed DNA,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 153703 (2010). PDF Document

Tetard, L.; Passian, A.; Thundat, T., “New modes for subsurface atomic force microscopy through nanomechanical coupling,” Nature Nanotechnology 5, 105 (2010). PDF Document

Passian, A.; Kouchekian, S.; Yakubovich, S. and Thundat, T., “Properties of Index Transforms in Modeling of Nanostructures and Plasmonic Systems,” Journal of Mathematical Physics 51, 023518 (2010). PDF Document

Tetard, L.; Passian, A.; Farahi, R.; Kalluri, U.; Davison, B. and Thundat, T., “Spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy of biomass,” Ultramicroscopy doi:10.1016/j.ultramic.2010.02.035 (2010).

Eslami, S.; Jalili, N.; Passian, A.; Tetard, L.; Thundat, T., “Nonlinear interaction force analysis of microcantilevers utilized in atomic force microscopy,” ASME, Dynam Syst & Control Div, PTS A AND B 781-788 (2010).

Tetard, L.; Passian, A.; Farahi, R. and Thundat, T., “Atomic force microscopy of silica nanoparticles and carbon nanohorns in macrophages and red blood cells,” Ultramicroscopy doi:10.1016/j.ultramic.2010.02.015 (2010).

Karakaya, M. and Qi, H., “Fault Detection, Correction, and Tolerance for Collaborative Target Localization in Visual Sensor Networks”, 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, Atlanta GA, (2010).

Gleason S.; Ferrell R.; Cheriyadat A.; Vatsavai R.; De S., “Semantic Information Extraction from Multispectral Geospatial Imagery via a Flexible Framework,” Invited Paper, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, (2010). PDF Document

Vatsavai, R.; Cheriyadat, A.; Gleason, S.; Ferrell, R., “Supervised Semantic Classification for Nuclear Nonproliferation Monitoring,” IEEE Applied Imagery and Pattern Recognition Workshop, (2010). PDF Document

Young, S. and Arel, I. and Karnowski, T. and Rose, D., “A Fast and Stable Incremental Clustering Algorithm”, IEEE Seventh International Conference on Information Technology, pp. 204-209, (2010)

Karnowski, T.; Cunningham, M.; et al. (2010)."Motion Estimation Accuracy for Visible Light Gamma Ray Fusion." SPIE Electronic Imaging - Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications III, San Jose, CA, SPIE. PDF Document

Karnowski, T.; Cunningham, M.; et al. (2010). "Design of Dual-Road Transportable Portal Monitoring System for Visible Light and Gamma-Ray Imaging." SPIE Defence & Security, Orlando, Florida, SPIE. PDF Document

Ziock, K.-P.; Cheriydat, A.; et al. (2010). "Autonomous Radiation Monitoring of Small Vessels." SORMA XII, Ann Arbor, Michigan. PDF Document

Karnowski, T.; Arel, I.; et al. (2010). "Deep Spatiotemporal Feature Learning with Application to Image Classification." International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications 2010, Washington, DC. PDF Document

Boehnen, C.; Bogard, J.; et al. (2010). "Combining Measurements with Three-Dimensional Laser Scanning System and Coded Aperture Gamma-Ray Imaging Systems for International Safeguards Applications." INMM 51st Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland. PDF Document

Ziock, K.-P.; Boehnen, C.; et al. (2010). "A Mechanically-Cooled, Highly-Portable, HPGe-Based, Coded-Aperture Gamma-Ray Imager." INMM 51st Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland. PDF Document

Giancardo, L.; Meriaudeau, F.; Karnowski, T.; Chaum, E. & Tobin, K. (2010), "Quality Assessment of Retinal Fundus Images using ELVD", IN-TECH, New Developments in Biomedical Engineering, ISBN: 978-953-7619-57-2, pp. 201--224. PDF Document

Giancardo, L.; Meriaudeau, F.; Karnowski, T.; Tobin, K. W.; Lic, Y .and Chaum, E.;"Microaneurysms Detection with the Radon Cliff Operator in Retinal Fundus Images." SPIE Medical Imaging. Volume 7623. San Diego, CA; 2010. p 29. PDF Document

Karnowski, T.; Bradley, C.; Cheriyadat, A.; Chesser, J.; Cunningham, M.; Fabris, L.; Goddard, J.; Hornback, D.; Kerekes, R.; Marchant, W. and Ziock, K.-P., "Design of dual-road transportable portal monitoring system for visible light and gamma-ray imaging." SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing. Orlando, FL; (2010). PDF Document

Karnowski, T. ; Cunningham, M.; Goddard, J.; Cheriyadat, A.; Hornback, D.; Fabris, L.; Kerekes, R.; Ziock, K-P and Gee, T., "Motion estimation accuracy for visible-light/gamma-ray imaging fusion for portable portal monitoring SPIE." Volume 7538; (2010). PDF Document

Kerekes, R.; Gleason, S.; Martins, R. and Dyer, M., “Fully automated segmentation and characterization of the dendritic trees of retinal horizontal neurons”, BSEC 2010: Annual ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Conference, May (2010). PDF Document

Kerekes, R.; Gleason, S.; Trivedi, N. and Solecki, D. J., “Automated method for tracing leading and trailing processes of migrating neurons in confocal image sequences”,Medical Imaging 2010: Image Processing. Edited by Dawant, Benoit M.; Haynor, David R. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7623, pp. 76233T-76233T-10 (2010). PDF Document

Passian, A.; Kouchekian, S.; Yakubovich, S. and Thundat, T., " Properties of Index Transforms in Modeling of Nanostructures and Plasmonic Systems,” Journal of Mathematical Physics 51, 023518 (2010).

Tetard, L.; Passian, A.; Thundat, T., “New modes for subsurface atomic force microscopy through nanomechanical coupling,” Nature Nanotechnology 5, 105 (2010).

2009

Farahi, R.; Passian, A.; Jones, Y.; Tetard, L.; Lereu, A. and Thundat, T.; "Laser reflectometry of submegahertz liquid meniscus ringing," Opt. Lett. 34, 3148-3150 (2009). PDF Document

Passian, A.; Simpson, H.; Kouchekian, S.; Yakubovic, S.; On the orthogonality of the MacDonald’s functions, "Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications" 360(2), 380-390 (2009). PDF Document

Karakaya, M. and Qi, H.,“Target Detection and Counting in Crowds with a Progressive Certainty Map in Distributed Visual Sensor Networks”, 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, Como, Italy, (20090. (Best Paper Award) PDF Document

Karnowski, T.; Aykac, D.; Chaum, E.; Giancardo, L.; Li, Y.; Tobin, K; Abramoff, M. “Practical Considerations for Optic Nerve Location in Telemedicine”, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE , Sept. (2009)

Arel, I. and Rose, D. and Karnowski, T., “A deep learning architecture comprising homogeneous cortical circuits for scalable spatiotemporal pattern inference”, NIPS Workshop on Deep Learning for Speech Recognition and Related Applications, (2009)

Giancardo, L.; Karnowski, T.; et al. (2009). Bright Retinal Lesions Detection using Colour Fundus Images Containing
Reflective Features. World Congress 2009 - Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Munich, Germany. PDF Document

Kerekes, R.; Goddard Jr, J.; et al. (2009). "Accuracy of a stereo vision system for portable roadside portal monitoring." IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Snowbird, Utah. PDF Document

Boehnen, C.; Peters, T. and Flynn, P. (2009). “3D Signatures for Fast 3D Face Recognition”, In Proceedings of the Third international Conference on Advances in Biometrics (Alghero, Italy, June 02 - 05, 2009). M. Tistarelli and M. S. Nixon, Eds. Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 5558, pp 12-21. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg. PDF Document

Boehnen, C. and Flynn, P., "Impact of involuntary subject movement on 3D face scans," CVPRW, pp.1-6, 2009 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, (2009). PDF Document

Nichols, T.; Kabalka, G. W.; Miller, L. F.; McCormack, M. T. and Johnson, A., “Implications for Clinical Treatment from the Micrometer Site Dosimetric Calculations in of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy”, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 67(2009) S161-S163.

Nichols, T., “The Flowering of Neutron Capture Therapy”, NIH forum at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June (2009).

Goddard J.; Baba J.; Lee S.; Weisenberger A.; Stolin A.; McKisson J.; and Smith M., “Intrinsic Feature Pose Measurement for Awake Animal SPECT Imaging,” Conference Record of the 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando, (2009). PDF Document

Lee S.; Baba J.; Goddard J.; Stolin A.; McKisson J.; Weisenberger A.; and Smith M.; “Effect of geometric and motion tracking error for awake small animal SPECT,” Conference Record of the 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando, (2009). PDF Document

Paquit, V.; Price, J.; Tobin, K. and Mériaudeau, F., "3D and Multispectral Imaging for Subcutaneous Veins Detection," Opt. Express 17, 11360-11365 (2009). PDF Document

Karnowski, T.; Aykac, D.; Chaum, E.; Giancardo, L.; Li, Y.; Tobin, K. W. and Abramoff, M. D., "Practical considerations for optic nerve location in telemedicine." 2009 3-6 Sept. (2009). p 6205-6209. PDF Document

Karnowski, T.; Aykac, D.; Chaum, E.; Giancardo, L.; Li, Y.; Tobin, K. and Abramoff, M., "Evaluating the Accuracy of Optic Nerve Detections in Retina Imaging Using Complementary Methods." IFMBE Proceedings; (2009); Munich, Germany. Springer. PDF Document

Giancardo, L.; Karnowski, T.; Meriaudeau, F.; Tobin, K. and Li, Y., "Bright Retinal Lesions Detection using Color Fundus Images Containing Reflective Features." (2009) September 7-12; Munich, Germany. Springer. PDF Document

Solecki, D.; Trivedi, N.; Govek, E.-E.; Kerekes, R.; Gleason, S. and Hatten, M., "Myosin II Motors and F-Actin Dynamics Drive the Coordinated Movement of the Centrosome and Soma During CNS Glial-Guided Neuronal Migration," submitted to Nature Neuroscience, Mar. (2009). PDF Document

Kerekes, R.; Gleason, S.; Trivedi, N. and Solecki, D., “Automated 3-D tracking of centrosomes in sequences of confocal image stacks,” submitted to EMBC `09, Minneapolis, (2009). PDF Document

2008

Tetard, L.; Passian, A.; Lynch, R.; Voy, B.; Shekhawat, G.; Dravid, V.; Thundat, V., “Elastic phase response of silica nanoparticles buried in soft matter,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 133113 (2008). PDF Document

Tetard, L.; Passian, A.; Venmar, K.; Lynch, R.; Voy, B.; Shekhawat, G.; Dravid, V.; Thundat, T., “Imaging nanoparticels in cells by nanomechanical holography”, Nature Nanotechnology 3, 501 (2008). PDF Document

Lereu, A.; Sanchez-Mosteiro, G.; Ghenuche, P.; Passian, A.; R. Quidant, M. Garcia-Parajo, N. F. van Hulst, “Probing the local field of nanoantennas using single particle luminescence,” Journal of Physics: CS 100, 052038 (2008). PDF Document

Lereu, A.; Passian, A.; Farahi, R.; van Hulst, N.; Ferrell, T.; Thundat, T., “Thermoplasmonic shift and dispersion in thin metal films,” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 26, 836 (2008). PDF Document

Desikan, R.; Tetard, L.; Datar, R.; Passian, A.; T. Thundat, “Nanomechanical Methods to Study Single Cells,” in “Accessing Uncultivated Microorganisms,” ASM, ISBN: 1555814069 (2008). PDF Document

Finot, E.; Passian, A.; Thundat,T. “Measurement of mechanical properties of cantilever shaped materials,” Sensors 8, 3497 (2008). PDF Document

Karnowski, T.; Govindasamy, V.; et al. (2008). "Retina Lesion and Microaneurysm Segmentation using Morphological Reconstruction Methods with Ground-Truth Data." IEEE EMBS 2008, Vancouver, Canada. PDF Document

Boehnen, C. and Flynn, P., "Increased Resolution 3D Face Modeling and Recognition From Multiple Low Resolution Structure From Motion Models," Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, (2008). BTAS 2008. 2nd IEEE International Conference on, Sept. 29 2008-Oct. 1 2008. PDF Document

Nichols,T.; Kabalka, G.; Miller, L.; McCormack, M. and Johnson, A., “Implications for Clinical Treatment from the Microdosimetry of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy”, Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Neutron Capture Therapy, Florence, Italy, (2008)

Weisenberger, A.; Kross, B.; Majewsk,I.; McKisson, J.; Popov, V.; Proffitt, J.; Stolin A.; Baba, J.; Goddard, J.; Lee, S.; Smith, M. and Pomper, M., “Awake animal SPECT: Overview and initial results,” Conference Record of the 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Dresden, (2008). PDF Document

Goddard, J.; Baba, J.; Lee, S.; Weisenberger, A.; Stolin, A.; McKisson, J. and Smith, M., “Real-time awake animal motion tracking system for SPECT imaging,” Conference Record of the 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Dresden, (2008). PDF Document

Giancardo, L.; Abramoff, M.; Chaum, E.; Karnowsk, T.; Meriaudeau, F. and Tobin, K., "Elliptical Local Vessel Density: a Fast and Robust Quality Metric for Fundus Images." 30th Annual International Conf of the IEEE EMBS. Vancouver, Canada; (2008). PDF Document

Stolin, A.; McKisson, J.; Weisenberger A.; Baba, J.; Lee, S.; Goddard, J. and Smith, M., “Image Reconstruction for awake animal SPECT imaging,” Conference Record of the 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Dresden, (2008). PDF Document

2007

Passian, A.; Lereu, A.; Yi, D.; Barhen, S.; Thundat, T., “Stochastic excitation and delayed oscillation of a micro-oscillator,” Phys. Rev. B 75, 233403 (2007); Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology 15 (25) (2007). PDF Document

Passian, A.; Lereu, A.; Farahi, R.; Ferrell, T. and Thundat, T., “Thermoplasmonics in thin solid films,” in Trends in Thin Solid Films Research, NOVA, ISBN: 1-60021-455-X (2007).

Yi, D.; Passian, A.; Thundat, T., “An experimental investigation of analog delay generation for dynamic control of microsensors,” Ultramicroscopy 107, 1020 (2007).

Evans, P.; Passian, A.; Ferrell, T., “A spectroscopic investigation of the shape dependency of gold nano-particles grown on roughened surfaces,” Ultramicroscopy 107, 1012 (2007).

Karakaya, M.; Alam, M. and Elbakary, M., “Target Detection in High Dimensional Space Using a Stochastic Expectation Maximization Algorithm”, Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Vol. 6565, 656509, Orlando FL (2007).

Boehnen, C.; Regier, A.; Thomas, D.; Chandra, S. and Flynn, P., “Mosaicing videos to stream over multiple independent channels”, In the 17th ACM workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio & Video (NOSSDAV '07), June 4-5, (2007), Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. PDF Document

Nichols, T.; Miller, L.; Kabalka, G. and  Dudney, T.; “Microdosimetric Study for Interpretation of Outcomes from Boron Neutron Capture Therapy Clinical Trials”, Radiation Protection Dosimetry, (2007) 126(1-4): pp. 645-647.

Slaybaugh, R.; Azmy, Y.; Williams, M.; Langer, M.; Kirk, B.; Peplow, D.; Ilas, D.; and Nichols, T.;  “Radiation Treatment Planning Using Discrete Ordinates Codes”, Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, (2007), 96, pp. 343-345.

Ziock, K.-P.; Collins, J.; Cunningham, M.; Fabris, L.; Gee, T.; Goddard, J.; Habte, F. and Karnowski, T., “The Use of Gamma-Ray Imaging to Improve Portal Monitor Performance,” Conference Record of the 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, (2007). PDF Document

Goddard, J.; Baba, J.; Weisenberger, A. and Smith, M., “Improved Pose Measurement and Tracking System for Motion Correction of Awake, Unrestrained Small Animal SPECT Imaging,” Conference Record of the 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, (2007). PDF Document

Bingham, P.; Arrowood, L. and Gregor, J., “Calibration and Performance Testing for Reconfigurable Computed Ttomography Systems,” American Society for Nondesctructive Testing, Digital Imaging X, Mashantucket, Connecticut, July 30-August. 1, (2007).

Arrowood, L.; Gregor, J. and Bingham, P., “Iterative Reconstruction Techniques for Industrial CT: Application and Performance,” American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Digital Imaging X, Mashantucket, Connecticut, July 30-August  1, (2007).

Tobin, K.; Chaum, E.; Govindasamy, V. and Karnowski, T., “Detection of Anatomic Structures in Human Retinal Imagery,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 26(12), pp. 1729-1739, December (2007). PDF Document

Tobin, K.; Bingham, P. and Price, J., “Optical Spatial Heterodyned Interferometry and Inspection of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems,” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision, SPIE Vol. 6356, Le Creusot, France, May 23-25, (2007). 

Paquit, V.; Price, J.; Meriaudeau, F.; Tobin, K. and Ferrell, R., “Combining Near-Infrared Illuminants to Optimize Venous Imaging,” Proceedings of the Medical Imaging Symposium,SPIE Vol. 6509, February (2007). PDF Document

Price, J.; Bingham, P. and Thomas, Jr.; C., “Improving Resolution in Microscopic Holography by Computationally Fusing Multiple, Obliquely-Illuminated Object Waves in the Fourier Domain,” Applied Optics 46(6), pp. 827-833, (2007). PDF Document

Price, J.; Aykac, D. and Wall, J., “Improvements in Level Set Segmentation of 3D Small Animal Imagery,” Proceedings of Image Processing (SPIE's Medical Imaging Symposium), February (2007). PDF Document

Price, J.; Aykac, D.; Hunn, J. and Kercher, A., “Automatic Characterization of Cross-sectional Coated Particle Nuclear Fuel using Greedy Coupled Bayesian Snakes,” Proceedings of Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection XV, (SPIE Electronic Imaging West Symposium), January (2007). PDF Document

Passian, A.; Lereu, L.; Yi, D.; Barhen, S. and Thundat, T., “Stochastic excitation and delayed oscillation of a micro-oscillator,” Phys. Rev. B 75, 233403 (2007).

2006

Lereu, A.; Passian, A.; Farahi, R.; Zahrai, S. and Thundat, T., “Plasmonic Marangoni Forces,” J. Eur. Opt. Soc. Rapid publications 1, 06030 (2006). PDF Document

Passian, A.; Protopopescu, V. and Thundat, T., “Fluctuation and dissipation of a stochastic micro-oscillator under delayed feedback,” J. Appl. Phys. 100, 114314 (2006). PDF Document

Passian, A.; Zahrai, S.; Lereu, A.; Farahi, R.; Ferrell, T. and Thundat, T., “Nonradiative surface plasmon assisted microscale Marangoni forces,” Phys. Rev. E 73, 066311 (2006). PDF Document

Passian, A.; Lereu, A.; Ritchie, R.; Meriaudeau, F.; Thundat,T. and Ferrell, T., “Surface plasmon assisted thermal coupling of multiple photon energies,” Thin Solid Films 497, 315 (2006).

Farahi, R.; Passian, A.; Zahrai, S.; Lereu, A.; Ferrell, T. and Thundat, T., “Microscale Marangoni actuation: All-optical and all-electrical methods,” Ultramicroscopy 106(8-9), 815 (2006).

Wig, A.; Arakawa, E.; Passian, A.; Ferrell, T. and Thundat, T.; “Photothermal spectroscopy of Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus with microcantilevers,” Sensors and Actuators B 114(1), 206 (2006).

Russ, T.; Boehnen, C. and Peters, T., "3D Face Recognition Using 3D Alignment for PCA," cvpr, vol. 2, pp.1391-1398, 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Volume 2 (CVPR'06), (2006) PDF Document

Nichols, T.; Miller, L. and Kabalka, G., “Microdosimetric study for interpretation of outcomes from Boron Neutron Capture Therapy clinical trials”, Tenth Symposium on Neutron Dosimetry, Progress in dosimetry of neutrons and light nuclei, Uppsala, Sweden, (2006).

Lillie, R.; Peplow, D.; Williams, M.; Kirk, B.; Langer, M.; Nichols, T. and Azmy, Y., “Photon Beam Transport in a Voxelized Human Phantom Model: Discrete Ordinates vs Monte Carlo, The American Nuclear Society’s 14th Biennial Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division, Carlsbad New Mexico, (2006).

Hausladen, P.; Bingham, P. and Mullens, J., “Analytically Computed Small-Angle Scattering in Fast-Neutron Radiography,” Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, California, October 31, (2006).

Mihalczo, J.; Mullens, J.; Hausladen, P.; Bingham, P.; Neal, J.; Wright, M. and Archer, D., “Enhanced NMC&A by Imaging,” Proceedings of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Managers 47th Annual Meeting, July (2006).

Price, J.; Aykac, D. and Wall, J., “A 3D Level Sets Method for Segmenting the Mouse Spleen and Follicles in Volumetric microCT Images,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), pp. 2332-2336, (2006). PDF Document

Price, J.; Aykac, D.; Hunn, J.; Kercher, A. and Morris, R., “New Developments in Image-Based Characterization of Coated Particle Nuclear Fuel,” Proceedings of Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection XIV, SPIE Vol. 6070, pp. 153-162, (2006). PDF Document

Goddard, J.; Gee, T.; Wang, H. and Gorbach, A., “Segmentation-Based Registration of Organs in Intraoperative Video Sequences,” International Symposium on Visual Computing, November (2006). PDF Document

Weisenberger, A.; Kross, B.; Majewski, S.; Popov, V.; Smith, M.; Welch, B.; Baba, J.; Goddard, J.; Pomper, M. and Tsui, B., “Instrumentation Development of a SPECT-CT System to Image Awake Mice,”  Society of Molecular Imaging Conference, August (2006). PDF Document

Tobin, K.; Aykac, D.; Govindasamy, V.; Gleason, S.; Gregor, J.; Karnowski, T.; Price, J. and Wall, J., “Image-Based Informatics for Preclinical Biomedical Research,” 2nd International Symposium on Visual Computing, LNCS 4292, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, (2006), pp. 1740-1750. PDF Document

Karnowski, T.; Govindasamy, V.; Tobin, K. W. and Chaum, E., “Locating the Optic Nerve in Retinal Images: Comparing Model-Based and Bayesian Decision Methods,” 28th Annual International Conf. of the IEEE EMBS, August (2006). PDF Document

Tobin, K.; Bhaduri, B.; Bright, E.; Cheriyadat, A.; Karnowski, T.; Palathingal, P.; Potok, T. and Price, J., “Automated Feature Generation in Large-Scale Geospatial Libraries for Content-Based Indexing,” Journal of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 72(5), May (2006). PDF Document

Tobin, K.; Chaum, E.; Govindasamy, V.; Karnowski, T. and Sezer, O., “Characterization of the Optic Disk in Retinal Imagery using a Probabilistic Approach,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Medical Imaging, San Diego, California, SPIE Vol. 6144, February (2006). PDF Document

Paquit, V.; Price, J.; Seulin, R.; Meriaudeau, F.; Farahi, R.; Tobin, K. and Ferrell, T., “Near-Infrared Iimaging and Structured Light Ranging for Automatic Catheter Insertion,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Medical Imaging, San Diego, California,SPIE Vol. 6141, February (2006). PDF Document

Passian, A.; Zahrai, S.; Lereu, A. L.; Farahi, R. H.; Ferrell, T. L. and Thundat, T., “Nonradiative surface plasmon assisted microscale Marangoni forces,” Phys. Rev. E 73, 066311 (2006).

2005

Passian, A.; Lereu, A.; Wig, A.; Meriaudeau, F.; Thundat, T. and Ferrell, T., “Imaging standing surface plasmon by photon tunneling,” Phys. Rev. B 71 (12), 165418-1 (2005). PDF Document

Passian, A.; Ritchie, R.; Lereu, A.; Thundat, T. and Ferrell, T., “Curvature effects in surface plasmon dispersion and coupling,” Phys. Rev. B 71 (7), 115425 (2005). PDF Document

Lereu, A.; Passian, A.; Goudonnet, J-P.; Thundat, T. and Ferrell, T., “Optical modulation processes in thin films based on thermal effects of surface plasmons,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 154101 (2005). PDF Document

Passian, A.; Lereu, A.; Arakawa, E.; Wig, A.; Thundat, T. and Ferrell, T., “Modulation of multiple photon energies by use of surface plasmons,” Optics Letters 30 (1), 41 (2005). PDF Document

Farahi, R.; Passian, A.; Ferrell, T. and Thundat, T., “Marangoni forces created by surface plasmon decay,” Optics Letters 30 (6), 616 (2005). PDF Document

Boehnen, C. and Russ, T., "A Fast Multi-Modal Approach to Facial Feature Detection," Application of Computer Vision, 2005. WACV/MOTIONS 2005 Volume 1. Seventh IEEE Workshops on, vol.1, pp.135-142, 5-7 Jan. (2005) PDF Document

Boehnen, C. and Flynn, P., "Accuracy of 3D Scanning Technologies in a Face Scanning Scenario," 3dim, pp.310-317, Fifth International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM'05), (2005) PDF Document

Nichols, T.; Miller, L. and Kabalka, G., “The Microdosimetry of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy in a Randomised Ellipsoidal Cell Geometry”, Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 116, 1-4 Pt 2, pp466-469, (2005).

Tobin, K.; Bhaduri, B.; Bright, E.; Cheriyadat, A.; Karnowski, T.; Palathingal, P.; Potok, T. and Price, J., “Large-Scale Geospatial Indexing for Image-Based Retrieval and Analysis,” ISVC 2005, LNCS 3804, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, (2005), pp. 543-552. PDF Document

Hausladen,P.; Bingham, P.; Karnowski, T.; Mullens, J. and Mihalczo, J., "Development of a Tomographic Imaging System for HEU Components,” Presentation at the Fall 2005 INMM Central Region Chapter Meeting Conference: Challenges to Safeguards and Security, October 12, (2005).

Tobin, K. and Bingham, P., “Optical Spatial Heterodyned Interferometry for Applications in Semiconductor Inspection and Metrology,” (invited) Proceedings of the International Conference on Lasers, Applications, and Technologies, St. Petersburg, Russia, SPIE Vol. 6162, May (2005). PDF Document

Aykac, D.; Price, J. and Wall, J.; “3D Segmentation of the Mouse Spleen in microCT via Active Contours,” Proceedings of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Vol. 3, pp. 1542-1545, (2005). Selected as “Premium Poster” (top 20 of 330). PDF Document

Tran, V.-H.; Smith, M.; Meikle, S.; Welch, B.; Goddard, J.; Baba, J. and Weisenberger, A., “Geometry Calibration of a Dual Headed SPECT System, with Rocking Motion Correction, for Small Animal Imaging,” Proceedings of the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, October (2005). PDF Document

Weisenberger, A.; Kross, B.; Gleason, S.; Goddard, J.; Majewski, S.; Meikle, S.; Paulus, M.; Pomper, M.; Popov, V.; Smith, M.; Welch, B. and Wojcik, R., “An Approach Towards a Restraint-Free Small Animal SPECT Imaging System with Motion Tracking,” IEEE Transaction on Nuclear Science 52(3), pp. 638-644, June (2005). PDF Document

Baba, J.; Gleason, S.; Goddard, J. and Paulus, M., “Application of Polarization for Optical Motion-Registered SPECT Functional Imaging of Tumors in Mice,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Biomedical Optics, Optical Diagnostics and Sensing V, SPIE Vol. 5702, January (2005). PDF Document

Karnowski, T.; Kercher, A.; Hunn, J. and Maxey, L., “A Simple Optical System for Real-Time Size Measurements of TRISO Fuel Pellets,” Proceedings of Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection XIII, SPIE Vol. 5679, February (2005), pp. 62-73. PDF Document

Price, J.; Aykac, D.; Gleason, S.; Chourey, K. and Liu, Y., “Quantitative Comparison of Mitotic Spindles by Confocal Image Analysis,” Journal of Biomedical Optics 10(4), 044012, July/August (2005). PDF Document

Weisenberger, A.; Kross, B.; Majewski, S.; Popov, V.; Smith, M.; Welch, B.; Wojcik, R.; Goddard, J.; Gleason, S.; Paulus, M. J.; Meikle, S. R. and Pomper, M., “A Small Animal SPECT Imaging System Utilizing Position Tracking of Un-anesthetized Mice,” Small Animal Spect Imaging; Springer USA, Chapter 18; pp. 239-243, (2005) PDF Document

Passian, A.; Lereu, L.; Wig, A.; Meriaudeau, F.; Thundat, T. and Ferrell, T. L., “Imaging standing surface plasmons by photon tunneling,” Phys. Rev. B 71, 165418 (2005).

Passian, A.; Ritchie, R. H.; Lereu, A. L.; Thundat, T. and Ferrell, T. L., “Curvature effects in surface plasmon dispersion and coupling,” Phys. Rev. B 71, 115425 (2005).

2004

Passian, A.; Wig, A.; Lereu, A.; Meriaudeau, F.; Thundat, T.; and Ferrell, T., “Plasmon coupling via photon tunneling,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 (16), 3420-3422 (2004). PDF Document

Farahi, R.; Passian, A.; Ferrell, T. and Thundat, T., “Microfluidic manipulation via Marangoni forces,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 (18), 4237-4239 (2004); Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology 10 (20) (2004). PDF Document

Aguirre, N.; Passian, A.; Martínez Pérez, L.; López-Sandoval, E.; Vázquez-López, C.; Jimenez Perez, J. and Ferrell, T., “The use of the surface plasmons resonance sensor in the study of the influence of “allotropic” cells on water,” Sensors and Actuators B 99, 149-155 (2004).

Passian, A.; Wig, A.; Lereu, A.; Evans, P.; Meriaudeau, F.; Thundat, T.; and Ferrell, T., “Probing large area surface plasmon interference in thin metal films using photon scanning tunneling microscopy,” Ultramicroscopy 100 (3-4), 429-436 (2004). PDF Document

Lereu, A.; Passian, A.; Ferrell, T. and Thundat, T., “Effect of thermal variations on the Knudsen forces in the transitional regime,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 84 (6), 1013-1015 (2004); Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology 9 (6) (2004). PDF Document

Wig, A.; Passian, A.; Arakawa, E.; Ferrell, T. and Thundat, T., “Optical thin-film interference effects in microcantilevers,” J. Appl. Phys. 95 (3), 1162-1165 (2004); Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology 9 (4) (2004). PDF Document

Passian, A.; Lereu, A.; Arakawa, E.; Ritchie, R.; Thundat, T.; and Ferrell, T., “Opto-electronic versus electro-optic modulation,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 (14), 2703-2705 (2004). PDF Document

Chan, H.-Y.; Sari-Sarraf, H.; Grinstead, B. I. and Gleason, S., “Content-Based Compression of Mammograms with Customized Fractal Encoding and a Modified JPEG2000,” J. Optical Engineering 43, p. 2986, December (2004). PDF Document

Weisenberger, A.; Baba, J.; Kross, B.; Gleason, S.; Goddard, J.; Majewski, S.; Meikle, S. R.; Paulus, M.; Pomper, M.; Popov, V.; Smith, M.; Welch, B. and Wojcik, R.; “Dual Low Profile Detector Heads for a Restraint Free Small Animal SPECT Imaging System,” Proceedings of the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, October (2004). PDF Document

Gleason, S.; Goddard, J.; Paulus, M.; Baba, J.; Majewski, S.; Smith, M.; Tran, T.; Weisenberger, A.; Welch, B. and Wojcik, R.; “Real-Time, High-Accuracy 3 D Tracking of Small Animals for Motion-Corrected SPECT Imaging,” Proceedings of the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, October (2004). PDF Document

Mullens, J.; Mihalczo, J. and Bingham, P., “Neutron and Gamma Ray Imaging for Nuclear Materials Identification,” Proceedings of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Managers 45th Annual Meeting, July (2004). PDF Document

Bingham, P.; Price, J.; Tobin, K. and Karnowski, T., “Semiconductor Sidewall Shape Estimation,” Journal of Electronic Imaging 13(3), pp. 474-485, (2004). PDF Document

Gregor, J.; Gleason, S.; Kennel, S.; Paulus, M.; Solomon, A. ; Hawkins, P. and Wall, J., “A MicroSPECT/CT System for Imaging of AA-Amyloidosis in Mice,” Small-Animal SPECT Imaging, Springer-Verlag, 209-213, (2004). PDF Document

Karnowski, T.; Allard, L.; Joy, D. and Clonts, L., “System Considerations for Maskless Lithography,” Proceedings of the Emerging Lithographic Techniques VIII, SPIE, Santa Clara, California, February (2004). PDF Document

Bingham, P.; Tobin, K.; Bennett, M. and Marmillion, P., “Phase Defect Detection with Spatial Heterodyne Interferometry,” Microlithography, Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 5378, May (2004). PDF Document

Bourgeat, P.; Meriaudeau, F.; Tobin, K. and Gorria, P., “Content based segmentation of patterned wafers,” Journal Electronic Imaging, Vol. 13, 428 (2004); . PDF Document

 

 

 

 

 

 

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