Publications

 

  • Frank, C., Ramesh, P., Lyu, Q., Ruan, D., Park, S., Cheng, A., Venkat, P., Kishan, A., and Sheng, K. Deterministic HDR Prostate Brachytherapy Planning with Automatic Catheter and Isotope Selection, Medical Physics 2023, http://doi.org/10.1002/mp.16677 
  • Jiang, L., Lyu, Q., and Sheng, K. An efficient rectangular optimization method for sparse orthogonal collimator based small animal irradiation, Phys Med Biol . 2022 Sep 28;67(19). https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6560/ac910b
  • Ramesh, P., Lyu, Q., Gu, W., Ruan, D., and Sheng, K. Reformulated McNamara RBE-weighted Beam Orientation Optimization for Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy, Med Phys. 2022; 49: 2136– 2149. https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.15552
  • Lyu, Q., Neph, R., and Sheng, K. Tomographic detection of photon pairs produced from high-energy X-rays for the monitoring of radiotherapy dosing, Nat. Biomed. Eng (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-022-00953-8
  • Xu, Q., Lyu, Q., Ruan, D. and Sheng, K., To what extent can Plug-and-Play methods outperform neural networks alone in low-dose CT reconstruction, accepted by IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2022, https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07173
  • Neph, R., Lyu, Q., Yang, Y., and Sheng, K. (2021), DeepMC: A Deep Learning Method for Efficient Monte Carlo Beamlet Dose Calculation by Predictive Denoising in Magnetic Resonance-guided Radiotherapy, Phys. Med. Biol. 66 035022 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/abca01
  • Lyu, Q., Neph, R., Ruan, D., Boucher, S., and Sheng, K. (2021), ROAD: ROtational direct Aperture optimization with a Decoupled ring-collimator for FLASH radiotherapy, Phys. Med. Biol. 66 035020 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/abcbd0
  • Gu, W., Ruan, D., Lyu, Q., Zou, W., Dong, L., and Sheng, K. (2020), A Novel Energy Layer Optimization Framework with for Spot-Scanning Proton Arc Therapy, Med. Phys., 47: 2072-2084. https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.14083
  • Lyu, Q., Niu, T., Ruan, D. and Sheng, K. , Iterative reconstruction of cone-beam breast CT using plug-and-play projected gradient descent, Proceedings Volume 11312, Medical Imaging 2020: Physics of Medical Imaging; 113124J (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2549787
  • Jiang Y, Zhang X, Sheng K, Niu T, Xue Y, Lyu Q, et al. (2020), Noise Suppression in Image-Domain Multi-Material Decomposition for Dual-Energy CT. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2020;67: 523–535. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8713891
  • Lyu, Q., Neph, R., Yu, V., Ruan, D., Boucher, S., and Sheng, K. (2020), Many-isocenter Optimization for Robotic Radiotherapy, Phys. Med. Biol. Volume 65, Number 4 pp:5003, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ab63b8
  • Lyu, Q., O’Connor, D., Niu, T. and Sheng, K. (2019), Image-domain multi-material decomposition for dual-energy CT with non-convex sparsity regularization, J. Med. Imag. 6(4), 044004, https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.6.4.044004
  • Lyu, Q., Neph, R., Yu, V., Ruan, D., and Sheng, K. (2019), Single-arc VMAT optimization for dual-layer MLC, Phys. Med. Biol. vol. 64 issue 9 pp: 095028 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ab0ddd
  • Lyu, Q., Ruan, D., Hoffman, J., Neph R., McNitt-Gray, M. and Sheng, K. (2019), Iterative reconstruction for low dose CT using Plug-and-Play alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) framework, Proc. SPIE 10949, Medical Imaging 2019: Image Processing, 1094906 https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2512484
  • Xue Y, Jiang Y, Yang C, Lyu Q, Wang J, Luo C, et al. (2019), Accurate Multi-Material Decomposition in Dual-Energy CT: A Phantom Study. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. 2019;5: 515–529. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8684950
  • Lyu, Q., O’Connor, D., Niu, T. and Sheng, K., Image-domain multi-material decomposition for dual-energy CT with non-convex sparsity regularization, Proc. SPIE 10949, Medical Imaging 2019: Image Processing, 1094903, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2508037
  • Lyu, Q., Yu, V., Ruan, D., Neph, R., O’Connor, D., and Sheng, K. (2018), A novel optimization framework for VMAT with dynamic gantry couch rotation, Phys. Med. Biol. vol. 63 issue 12 pp: 125013 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/aac704
  • Lyu, Q. , O’Connor, D. , Ruan, D. , Yu, V. , Nguyen, D. and Sheng, K. (2018), VMAT optimization with dynamic collimator rotation. Med. Phys., 45: 2399-2410. https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.12915
  • Lyu, Q. , Yang, C. , Gao, H. , Xue, Y. , O’Connor, D. , Niu, T. and Sheng, K. (2018), Technical Note: Iterative megavoltage CT (MVCT) reconstruction using block-matching 3D-transform (BM3D) regularization. Med. Phys., 45: 2603-2610. https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.12916
  • Yang, C. , Wu, P. , Gong, S. ,Wang, J., Lyu, Q. , Tang, X., Niu, T. (2017), Shading correction assisted iterative cone-beam CT reconstruction. Phys. Med. Biol. vol. 62 issue 22 pp: 8495-8520, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/aa8e62
  • Nguyen, D. , Lyu, Q. , Ruan, D. , O’Connor, D. , Low, D. A. and Sheng, K. (2016), A comprehensive formulation for volumetric modulated arc therapy planning. Med. Phys., 43: 4263-4272. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4953832