Publications

Papers that describe AMIGO or used it. If you use AMIGOpy in a publication, cite the 2014 paper.

1. Phys Med Biol 70(10), 2025
   Evaluating photon-counting computed tomography for quantitative material characteristics and material differentiation in radiotherapy
   DECT module; the phantom data are on Zenodo (10.5281/zenodo.15119102).
   doi:10.1088/1361-6560/add3ba
2. Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol, 2024
   Development of a novel 3D-printed dynamic anthropomorphic thorax phantom for evaluation of four-dimensional computed tomography
   4DCT, breathing curves and 3D printing modules.
   doi:10.1016/j.phro.2024.100656
3. Med Phys, 2023
   AAPM WGDCAB Report 372: A joint AAPM, ESTRO, ABG, and ABS report on commissioning of model-based dose calculation algorithms in brachytherapy
   Monte Carlo and TG-43 comparison in brachytherapy.
   doi:10.1002/mp.16571
4. Brachytherapy, 2021
   Validation of the collapsed cone algorithm for HDR liver brachytherapy against Monte Carlo simulations
   AMIGO with MCNP as the Monte Carlo reference.
   doi:10.1016/j.brachy.2021.03.018
5. Radiat Oncol, 2020
   The dosimetric impact of replacing the TG-43 algorithm by model based dose calculation for liver brachytherapy
   AMIGO with MCNP.
   doi:10.1186/s13014-020-01492-9
6. Brachytherapy 13(6):632-639, 2014
   A medical image-based graphical platform: features, applications and relevance for brachytherapy
   The original AMIGO (MATLAB) description. Cite this paper when using AMIGO or AMIGOpy.
   doi:10.1016/j.brachy.2014.07.004

@article{fonseca2014amigo,
  title   = {A medical image-based graphical platform: features, applications and relevance for brachytherapy},
  author  = {Fonseca, Gabriel P. and Reniers, Brigitte and Landry, Guillaume and White, Shane and Bellezzo, Murillo and Antunes, Paula C. G. and de Sales, Camila P. and Welteman, Eduardo and Yoriyaz, Helio and Verhaegen, Frank},
  journal = {Brachytherapy},
  volume  = {13},
  number  = {6},
  pages   = {632--639},
  year    = {2014},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.brachy.2014.07.004}
}

AMIGOpy builds on VTK, pydicom, SimpleITK, PySide6, NumPy, SciPy, OpenCV, PyTorch and TotalSegmentator.