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Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications

Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications is a research topic within Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Science Explorer counts 84k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging in oncology, covering topics such as PET/CT imaging, cancer tumor imaging, image reconstruction, molecular imaging, quantitative analysis, attenuation correction, and response criteria. The cluster also discusses the application of PET imaging in small animal research.

  • PET/CT
  • imaging
  • cancer
  • tumor
  • reconstruction
  • molecular
  • quantitative
  • attenuation correction
  • response criteria
  • small animal
Research works
84k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
8.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (3k and 2.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 3k works
  2. 2 China 2.5k works
  3. 3 Germany 937 works
  4. 4 Japan 775 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 497 works
  6. 6 France 487 works
  7. 7 Italy 461 works
  8. 8 India 459 works
  9. 9 South Korea 413 works
  10. 10 Canada 317 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 30.6%China: 25.3%Germany: 9.5%Japan: 7.9%6 others listed: 26.7%31%largest
United States3,016 · 30.6%China2,493 · 25.3%Germany937 · 9.5%Japan775 · 7.9%6 others listed2,635 · 26.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications research, followed by Harvard University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 134 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 133 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 124 works
  4. 4 Stanford UniversityUnited States 93 works
  5. 5 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 88 works
  6. 6 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 78 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 78 works
  8. 8 Mayo ClinicUnited States 73 works
  9. 9 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 64 works
  10. 10 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 61 works

Who are the leading researchers in Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications include Bert Vogelstein, Cyrus Cooper and Matthias Egger.

  1. 1 Bert Vogelstein United States 373k citations
  2. 2 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  3. 3 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  4. 4 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  5. 5 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications?

The most cited paper in Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications is "New response evaluation criteria in solid tumours: Revised RECIST guideline (version 1.1)" (E. A. Eisenhauer, P. Therasse, Jan Bogaerts et al., 2008), with 30,125 citations. Next come "Robust uncertainty principles: exact signal reconstruction from highly incomplete frequency information" (15,931) and "Fast robust automated brain extraction" (10,948).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 New response evaluation criteria in solid tumours: Revised RECIST guideline (version 1.1) E. A. Eisenhauer, P. Therasse, Jan Bogaerts et al. · European Journal of Cancer 27 Dec 2008 30,125
2 Robust uncertainty principles: exact signal reconstruction from highly incomplete frequency information Emmanuel J. Candès, Justin K. Romberg, Terence Tao · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 25 Jan 2006 15,931
3 Fast robust automated brain extraction Stephen M. Smith · Human Brain Mapping Open access 18 Sep 2002 10,948
4 Improved Optimization for the Robust and Accurate Linear Registration and Motion Correction of Brain Images Mark Jenkinson · NeuroImage Oct 2002 10,690
5 3D Slicer as an image computing platform for the Quantitative Imaging Network Andriy Fedorov, Reinhard Beichel, Jayashree Kalpathy–Cramer et al. · Magnetic Resonance Imaging Open access 7 Jul 2012 9,292
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Seoul (South Korea) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Forchheim.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 472 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 308 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 216 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 195 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 174 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 151 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 144 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 144 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 121 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 115 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ForchheimDE · 27.9 works94×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications than the world average.

See Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications on the map

Where is the best place to study Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Zurich, University of Bern and University of Groningen score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 18.26%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Gronin…University of ZurichUniversity of BernUniversity of Califo…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of ZurichSwitzerland 77.821.5%4.6×37 +10.2%
2University of BernSwitzerland 72.018.1%7.3×46 +69.4%
3University of GroningenNetherlands 69.321.8%5.4×42 -13.5%
4University of California, DavisUnited States 68.714.3%6.1×55 +23.7%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 68.113.4%3.7×133 -12.4%
6Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 67.221.8%4.0×18 +10.0%
7Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 63.415.0%2.7×88 +63.5%
8New York UniversityUnited States 61.721.9%2.0×26 +12.2%
9Sichuan UniversityChina 61.616.2%2.3×59 +69.6%
10Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 61.418.6%3.6×25 -4.7%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, country by country

Is Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.063% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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