Publications
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2025 (HVL)
- “PHITS & DCHAIN Tools: Python modules for parsing, organizing, and analyzing results from the PHITS radiation transport and DCHAIN activation codes,” H.N. Ratliff, Journal of Open Source Software.
- “Evaluating impact of detector arrangement and position resolution effect on a fast neutron-based range verification system for proton therapy,” L.M. Setterdahl, W.R.B. Lionheart, D. Lathouwers, H.N. Ratliff, K. Skjerdal, and I. Meric, Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 112793, April 2025.
2024 (HVL)
- “Image Reconstruction for Proton Therapy Range Verification via U-NETs,” L.M. Setterdahl, W.R.B. Lionheart, S. Holman, K. Skjerdal, H.N. Ratliff, K.S. Ytre-Hauge, D. Lathouwers, and I. Meric, Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA 2024), 232-244, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, July 2024.
- “The Backscatter Gating method for time, energy, and position resolution characterization of long form factor organic scintillators,” H.N. Ratliff, T. Kögler, G. Pausch, L.M. Setterdahl, K. Skjerdal, J. Turko, and I. Meric, Journal of Instrumentation, 19, P07002, July 2024.
- “Characterization of organic glass scintillator bars and their potential for a hybrid neutron/gamma ray imaging system for proton radiotherapy range verifcation,” J. Turko, R. Beyer, A.R. Junghans, I. Meric, S.E. Mueller, G. Pausch, H.N. Ratliff, K. Römer, S.M. Schellhammer, L.M. Setterdahl, S. Urlass, A. Wagner, and T. Kögler on behalf of the NOVO collaboration, Journal of Instrumentation, 19, P01008, January 2024.
- “Recent improvements of the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System – PHITS version 3.33,” T. Sato, Y. Iwamoto, S. Hashimoto, T. Ogawa, T. Furuta, S. Abe, T. Kai, Y. Matsuya, N. Matsuda, Y. Hirata, T. Sekikawa, L. Yao, P. Tsai, H.N. Ratliff, H. Iwase, Y. Sakaki, K. Sugihara, N. Shigyo, L. Sihver, and K. Niita, Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 61:1, 127-135, January 2024.
2023 (HVL)
- “Development of scalable deconvolution methods for determining secondary target neutron yields from dual-thick-target cosmic-ray ion accelerator experiments,” H.N. Ratliff, N.A. McGirl, M.R. Beach, L.A. Castellanos, M.S. Clowdsley, L.H. Heilbronn, C. La Tessa, J.W. Norbury, A. Rusek, M. Sivertz, A.P. Srikrishna, H. Wang, and C. Zeitlin, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 544, 165121, November 2023. (UTK)
- “Double-differential primary target neutron yields from dual-thick-target proton and heavy ion accelerator experiments,” H.N. Ratliff, N.A. McGirl, M.R. Beach, L.A. Castellanos, M.S. Clowdsley, L.H. Heilbronn, C. La Tessa, J.W. Norbury, A. Rusek, M. Sivertz, A.P. Srikrishna, H. Wang, and C. Zeitlin, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 542, 87-94, September 2023. (UTK)
- “A hybrid multi-particle approach to range assessment-based treatment verification in particle therapy,” I. Meric, E. Alagoz, L.B. Hysing, T. Kögler, D. Lathouwers, W.R.B. Lionheart, J. Mattingly, J. Obhodas, G. Pausch, H.E.S. Pettersen, H.N. Ratliff, M. Rovituso, S.M. Schellhammer, L.M. Setterdah, K. Skjerdal, E. Sterpin, D. Sudac, J.A. Turko, and K.S. Ytre-Hauge, Scientific Reports, 13, 6709, April 2023.
2020 (JAEA)
- “Modernization of the DCHAIN-PHITS activation code with new features and updated data libraries,” H.N. Ratliff, N. Matsuda, S. Abe, T. Miura, T. Furuta, Y. Iwamoto, and T. Sato, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 484, 29-41, December 2020.
2018 (UTK)
- “Secondary neutron yields from thick-target GCR accelerator experiments,” H.N. Ratliff, N.A. McGirl, L.A. Castellanos, H. Wang, A.P. Srikrishna, L.H. Heilbronn, Proceedings of 20th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division of the American Nuclear Society, Santa Fe, NM, 2018.
- “Light charged ion measurements and Monte Carlo calculations from thick targets bombarded by protons and heavy ions,” H. Wang, L.A. Castellanos, N.A. McGirl, H.N. Ratliff, A.P. Srikrishna, and L.H. Heilbronn, Proceedings of 20th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division of the American Nuclear Society, Santa Fe, NM, 2018.
2017 (UTK)
- “The radiation environment on the surface of Mars - Summary of model calculations and comparison to RAD data,” D. Matthiä, D.M. Hassler, W. de Wet, B. Ehresmann, A. Firan, J. Flores-McLaughlin, J. Guo, L.H. Heilbronn, K. Lee, H.N. Ratliff, R.R. Rios, T. Slaba, M.B.R. Smith, L.W. Townsend, T. Berger, G. Reitz, R.F. Wimmer-Schweingruber, and C. Zeitlin, Life Sciences in Space Research, 14, Supplement C, 18-28, June 2017.
- “Simulation of the GCR spectrum in the Mars curiosity rover’s RAD detector using MCNP6,” H.N. Ratliff, M.B.R. Smith, and L.H. Heilbronn, Life Sciences in Space Research, 14, Supplement C, 43-50, June 2017.
Dissertation
- “Thick-target neutron yields for intermediate-energy heavy ion experiments at NSRL,” H.N. Ratliff, December 2018.
Technical Notes
- “Cartesian formulas for curvature, circumradius, and circumcenter for any three two-dimensional points,” H.N. Ratliff, February 2019,
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My Affiliations
- UTK : The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- JAEA : Japan Atomic Energy Agency
- HVL : Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Høgskulen på Vestlandet)
Next to each year is my primary affiliation at that time; for any publications where my primary affiliation differed from that of my employment, the main affiliation associated with the work is noted at the end of the entry.