"Photons" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Discrete concentrations of energy, apparently massless elementary particles, that move at the speed of light. They are the unit or quantum of electromagnetic radiation. Photons are emitted when electrons move from one energy state to another. (From Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, 11th ed)
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D017785
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.249.705 G01.358.500.505.650.782 G01.590.540.782 G01.750.250.650.782 G01.750.770.578.782
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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2016 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Photons" by people in Profiles.
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Experimental investigation of metal artifact reduction using one-step spectral CT reconstruction. Med Phys. 2026 Sep; 53(9):e70672.
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Pre-operative proton versus photon-based chemoradiotherapy as an addition to best systemic therapy in the management of oesophageal cancer: protocol for the UK multi-centre randomised phase 2 PROTIEUS study. BMC Cancer. 2026 Jun 29; 26(1).
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Photon-counting CT in cancer radiotherapy: technological advances and clinical benefits. Phys Med Biol. 2025 05 16; 70(10).
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Elucidating nanostructural organization and photonic properties of butterfly wing scales using hyperspectral microscopy. J R Soc Interface. 2024 09; 21(218):20240185.
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Impact of proton versus photon adjuvant radiotherapy on overall survival in the management of skull base and spinal chordomas: a National Cancer Database analysis. J Neurosurg. 2025 01 01; 142(1):239-247.
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Investigation of triaxial cables and microdetectors in small field dosimetry. Biomed Phys Eng Express. 2024 05 28; 10(4).
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Proton versus photon adjuvant radiotherapy: a multicenter comparative evaluation of recurrence following spinal chordoma resection. Neurosurg Focus. 2024 05; 56(5):E9.
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Characteristics of a plastic scintillation detector in photon beam dosimetry. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2024 Jan; 25(1):e14209.
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Constrained one-step material decomposition reconstruction of head CT data from a silicon photon-counting prototype. Med Phys. 2023 Oct; 50(10):6008-6021.
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Sample-minimizing co-flow cell for time-resolved pump-probe X-ray solution scattering. J Synchrotron Radiat. 2023 Mar 01; 30(Pt 2):490-499.