Photons

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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)

Descriptor ID	D017785
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
Concept/Terms	Photons Photons

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Photons".

Biological Sciences [G]
Physical Phenomena [G01]
Elementary Particles [G01.249]
Photons [G01.249.705]
Magnetic Phenomena [G01.358]
Electromagnetic Phenomena [G01.358.500]
Electromagnetic Radiation [G01.358.500.505]
Light [G01.358.500.505.650]
Photons [G01.358.500.505.650.782]
Optical Phenomena [G01.590]
Light [G01.590.540]
Photons [G01.590.540.782]
Radiation [G01.750]
Electromagnetic Radiation [G01.750.250]
Light [G01.750.250.650]
Photons [G01.750.250.650.782]
Radiation, Nonionizing [G01.750.770]
Light [G01.750.770.578]
Photons [G01.750.770.578.782]

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Bar chart showing 17 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2002 and 2010 and 2020 and 2021

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2001	0	1	1
2002	0	2	2
2004	0	1	1
2005	0	1	1
2006	0	1	1
2008	0	1	1
2010	0	2	2
2011	0	1	1
2015	0	1	1
2016	1	0	1
2018	0	1	1
2020	0	2	2
2021	1	1	2

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Sch?nfeld AB, Mund K, Yan G, Sch?nfeld AA, Looe HK, Poppe B. Corrections of photon beam profiles of small fields measured with ionization chambers using a three-layer neural network. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2021 Dec; 22(12):64-71.

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Mund K, Maloney L, Lu B, Wu J, Li J, Liu C, Yan G. Reconstruction of volume averaging effect-free continuous photon beam profiles from discrete ionization chamber array measurements using a machine learning technique. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2021 Oct; 22(10):161-168.

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Jain V, Niezink AGH, Frick M, Doucette A, Mendes A, Simone CB, Langendijk JA, Wijsman R, Feigenberg SJ, Levin W, Cengel KA, van der Schaaf A, Berman AT. Updating Photon-Based Normal Tissue Complication Probability Models for Pneumonitis in Patients With Lung Cancer Treated With Proton Beam Therapy. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2020 Sep - Oct; 10(5):e330-e338.

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Mund K, Wu J, Liu C, Yan G. Evaluation of a neural network-based photon beam profile deconvolution method. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2020 Jun; 21(6):53-62.

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Moran JM, Molineu A, Kruse JJ, Oldham M, Jeraj R, Galvin JM, Palta JR, Olch AJ. Executive summary of AAPM Report Task Group 113: Guidance for the physics aspects of clinical trials. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2018 Sep; 19(5):335-346.

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Giaddui T, Chen W, Yu J, Lin L, Simone CB, Yuan L, Gong YU, Wu QJ, Mohan R, Zhang X, Bluett JB, Gillin M, Moore K, O'Meara E, Presley J, Bradley JD, Liao Z, Galvin J, Xiao Y. Establishing the feasibility of the dosimetric compliance criteria of RTOG 1308: phase III randomized trial comparing overall survival after photon versus proton radiochemotherapy for inoperable stage II-IIIB NSCLC. Radiat Oncol. 2016 May 04; 11:66.

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Flynn DC, Bhagwat AR, Brenner MH, N??ez MF, Mork BE, Cai D, Swanson JA, Ogilvie JP. Pulse-shaping based two-photon FRET stoichiometry. Opt Express. 2015 Feb 09; 23(3):3353-72.

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Jo W, Freedman K, Yi DK, Bose RK, Lau KK, Solomon SD, Kim MJ. Photon to thermal response of a single patterned gold nanorod cluster under near-infrared laser irradiation. Biofabrication. 2011 Mar; 3(1):015002.

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Podder TK, Bednarz G, Yu Y, Galvin JM. Physical characterization and comparison of two commercially available micro-MLCs. Phys Med. 2011 Jan; 27(1):52-7.

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Flynn DC, Ramakrishna G, Yang HB, Northrop BH, Stang PJ, Goodson T. Ultrafast optical excitations in supramolecular metallacycles with charge transfer properties. J Am Chem Soc. 2010 Feb 03; 132(4):1348-58.

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