Publications

• Hardy AJ, Bostani M, Kim GHJ, Cagnon CH, Zankl MA, McNitt-Gray M. Evaluating Size-Specific Dose Estimate (SSDE) as an estimate of organ doses from routine CT exams derived from Monte Carlo simulations.. Medical physics, 2021.
• Layman RR, Hardy AJ, Kim HJ, Chou EN, Bostani M, Cagnon C, Cody D, McNitt-Gray M. A comparison of breast and lung doses from chest CT scans using organ-based tube current modulation (OBTCM) vs. Automatic tube current modulation (ATCM).. Journal of applied clinical medical physics, 2021.
• Hardy AJ, Bostani M, Angel E, Cagnon C, Sechopoulos I, McNitt-Gray MF. Reference dataset for benchmarking fetal doses derived from Monte Carlo simulations of CT exams.. Medical physics, 2020.
• Hardy AJ, Angel E, Bostani M, Cagnon C, McNitt-Gray M. Estimating fetal dose from tube current-modulated (TCM) and fixed tube current (FTC) abdominal/pelvis CT examinations.. Medical physics, 2019.
• Hardy AJ, Bostani M, Hernandez AM, Zankl M, McCollough C, Cagnon C, Boone JM, McNitt-Gray M. Estimating a size-specific dose for helical head CT examinations using Monte Carlo simulation methods.. Medical physics, 2018.
• Hardy AJ, Bostani M, McMillan K, Zankl M, McCollough C, Cagnon C, McNitt-Gray M. Estimating lung, breast, and effective dose from low-dose lung cancer screening CT exams with tube current modulation across a range of patient sizes.. Medical physics, 2018.
• McMillan K, Bostani M, Cagnon CH, Yu L, Leng S, McCollough CH, McNitt-Gray MF. Estimating patient dose from CT exams that use automatic exposure control: Development and validation of methods to accurately estimate tube current values.. Medical physics, 2017.
• Bostani M, McMillan K, Lu P, Kim GHJ, Cody D, Arbique G, Bruce Greenberg S, DeMarco JJ, Cagnon CH, McNitt-Gray MF. Erratum: "Estimating organ doses from tube current modulated CT examinations using a generalized linear model" [Med. Phys. Vol 44 (4), 1500-1513 (2017)].. Medical physics, 2017.
• Demb J, Chu P, Nelson T, Hall D, Seibert A, Lamba R, Boone J, Krishnam M, Cagnon C, Bostani M, Gould R, Miglioretti D, Smith-Bindman R. Optimizing Radiation Doses for Computed Tomography Across Institutions: Dose Auditing and Best Practices.. JAMA internal medicine, 2017.
• Bostani M, McMillan K, Lu P, Kim GH, Cody D, Arbique G, Greenberg SB, DeMarco JJ, Cagnon CH, McNitt-Gray MF. Estimating organ doses from tube current modulated CT examinations using a generalized linear model.. Medical physics, 2017.
• Fujii K, McMillan K, Bostani M, Cagnon C, McNitt-Gray M. Patient Size-Specific Analysis of Dose Indexes From CT Lung Cancer Screening.. AJR. American journal of roentgenology, 2016.
• Elgart SR, Bostani M, Mok KC, Adibi A, Ruehm S, Enzmann D, McNitt-Gray M, Iwamoto KS. Investigation of DNA Damage Dose-Response Kinetics after Ionizing Radiation Schemes Similar to CT Protocols.. Radiation research, 2015.
• Bostani M, Mueller JW, McMillan K, Cody DD, Cagnon CH, DeMarco JJ, McNitt-Gray MF. Accuracy of Monte Carlo simulations compared to in-vivo MDCT dosimetry.. Medical physics, 2015.
• Bostani M, McMillan K, Lu P, Kim HJ, Cagnon CH, DeMarco JJ, McNitt-Gray MF. Attenuation-based size metric for estimating organ dose to patients undergoing tube current modulated CT exams.. Medical physics, 2015.
• McMillan K, Bostani M, Cagnon C, Zankl M, Sepahdari AR, McNitt-Gray M. Size-specific, scanner-independent organ dose estimates in contiguous axial and helical head CT examinations.. Medical physics, 2014.
• Bostani M, McMillan K, DeMarco JJ, Cagnon CH, McNitt-Gray MF. Validation of a Monte Carlo model used for simulating tube current modulation in computed tomography over a wide range of phantom conditions/challenges.. Medical physics, 2014.
• McCollough C, Bakalyar DM, Bostani M, Brady S, Boedeker K, Boone JM, Chen-Mayer HH, Christianson OI, Leng S, Li B, McNitt-Gray MF, Nilsen RA, Supanich MP, Wang J. Use of Water Equivalent Diameter for Calculating Patient Size and Size-Specific Dose Estimates (SSDE) in CT: The Report of AAPM Task Group 220.. AAPM report, 2014.