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1.      Dougherty, G., Johnson, M.J.and Wiers, M.D. The measurement of retinal vascular tortuosity and its application to retinal pathologies.


2.      Dougherty, G.and Johnson, M.J. Assessment of scoliosis by direct measurement of the curvature of the spine.


3.      Manikka-Baduge, D.C. and Dougherty, G. Texture analysis using lacunarity and average local variance.


Recent Publications

 

1.      Dougherty, G. and Johnson, M.J. Clinical validation of three-dimensional tortuosity metrics based on the minimum curvature of approximating polynomial splines. Med. Eng. Phys., 2008, 30, 190-198. pdf


2.      Johnson, M.J. and Dougherty, G. Robust measures of three-dimensional vascular tortuosity based on the minimum curvature of approximating polynomial spline fits to the vessel mid-line. Med. Eng. Phys., 2007, 29, 677-690. pdf


3.      Dougherty, G. and Johnson, M.J. Clinical applications of three-dimensional tortuosity metrics. Proc. SPIEE, 2007, vol. 6511, paper 65110H, 1-9. pdf


4.      Ballani, N. and Dougherty, G. The effect of finite spatial resolution on the measurement of cardiac phantom wall thickness in SPECT imaging. Med. Principles Prac., 2004, 13, 316-324.

 

5.      Dougherty, G. and Henebry, G.  Lacunarity analysis of spatial pattern in CT images of vertebral bone for assessing osteoporosis. Med. Eng. Phys., 2002, 24, 129-138. pdf

 

6.      Dougherty, G. and Kawaf, Z.  The point spread function revisited: image restoration using 2-D convolution. Radiography, 2001, 7, 255-262.

 

7.      Dougherty, G. and Henebry, G.  Fractal signature and lacunarity in the measurement of the texture of trabecular bone in clinical CT images. Med. Eng. Phys., 2001, 23, 369-380. pdf

 

8.      Dougherty, G.  A comparison of the texture of computed tomography and projection radiography images of vertebral trabecular bone using fractal signature and lacunarity.  Med. Eng. Phys., 2001, 23, 313-321. pdf

 

9.      Dougherty, G. and Kawaf, Z.  A simplified method for densitometric quantification of vessel stenosis in angiographic images.  Radiography, 2001, 7, 187-191.

 

10.      Dougherty, G. and Al-Marzouk, N. Bone mineral density measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in healthy Kuwaiti women.  Calcif Tissue Int., 2001, 68, 225-229.

 

11.      Dougherty, G. and Varro, J.  A quantitative index for the measurement of the tortuosity of blood vessels.  Med. Eng. Phys., 2000, 22, 567-574.

 

12.      Dougherty, G. Effect of sub-pixel misregistration on the determination of the point spread function of a CT imaging system.  Med. Eng. Phys., 2000, 22, 503-507.

 

13.     Dougherty, G.  The peak CT number of profiles perpendicular to the vertebral cortical shell may be a useful indicator of the integrity of the cortical shell.  Med. Eng. Phys., 2000, 22, 487-491.

 

14.     Dougherty, G. and Newman, D. The measurement of thickness and density of thin structures by CT: a simulation study. Med. Phys., 1999, 26, 1341 - 1348.

 

15.     Dougherty, G. Computerized evaluation of mammographic image quality using phantom images. Comp. Med. Imag. & Graphics, 1998, 22, 365-373.

 

16.     Newman, D., Dougherty, G., Al Obaid, A. and Al Hajrasy, H. Limitations of clinical CT in assessing cortical thickness and density.  Phys. Med. Biol., 1998, 43, 619-626.

 

17.     Dougherty, G. and Newman, D. The effect of anticipation in the scoring of mammographic accreditation phantom images. Radiography, 1997, 3, 279-286.

 

18.     Dougherty, G. Quantitative assessment of abdominal aortic atherosclerosis using computed tomography. Comp. Med. Imag. & Graphics, 1997, 21, 185-193 and p. 321.

 

19.     Dougherty, G. and Newman, D. Quantitation of film-screen contact in radiographic imaging. Radiography, 1996, 2, 301-309.

 

20.     Dougherty, G. Quantitative CT in the measurement of bone quantity and bone quality for assessing osteoporosis.  Med. Phys., 1996, 18, 557-568.

 

21.     Dougherty, G. Quantitative indices for assessing the severity of hepatocellular carcinoma. Comp. Med. Imag. & Graphics, 1995, 19, 329-338.




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