Effect of positron range on PET quantification in diseased and normal lungs

EC Emond, AM Groves, BF Hutton… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
… In regions where density does not vary, positron range … on positron range in the lungs and
its impact on quantification, … evaluate the effects of positron range for multiple radionuclides ( …

Improving PET Quantification of Small Animal [68Ga]DOTA-Labeled PET/CT Studies by Using a CT-Based Positron Range Correction

J Cal-Gonzalez, JJ Vaquero, JL Herraiz… - Molecular Imaging and …, 2018 - Springer
PET/CT imaging of mice with neuroendocrine tumors, hence demonstrating that these
techniques could also ameliorate the deleterious effect of the positron range in clinical PET

[HTML][HTML] Tumor quantification in clinical positron emission tomography

B Bai, J Bading, PS Conti - Theranostics, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… in PET instrumentation and image reconstruction and their impact on tumor quantification. …
the current development needs in PET tumor quantification, including practical techniques …

Towards enhanced PET quantification in clinical oncology

H Zaidi, N Karakatsanis - The British journal of radiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… Nonetheless, in the case of integrated PET/MR, the presence of a strong magnetic field may
limit positron range along certain directions due to magnetic forces exercised on positron’s …

Deep-learning based positron range correction of PET images

JL Herraiz, A Bembibre, A López-Montes - Applied sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Quantification of the reconstructed PET images corrected with Deep-PRC showed that it …
provide an accurate positron range correction in a few seconds for a typical PET acquisition. …

PET quantification: strategies for partial volume correction

V Bettinardi, I Castiglioni, E De Bernardi… - Clinical and Translational …, 2014 - Springer
… However, this solution, while practical, results in non-optimal PSF models, as the positron
range does not exactly correspond to that of the isotopes used in clinical studies ( 18 F, 11 C, …

Positron range in PET imaging: an alternative approach for assessing and correcting the blurring

L Jødal, C Le Loirec, C Champion - Physics in Medicine & …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
… of positron emission is relevant for assessing statistical noise. This paper aims to determine
the positron range distribution relevant for blurring for seven medically relevant PET isotopes…

Effect of the positron range of 18F, 68Ga and 124I on PET/CT in lung-equivalent materials

GJ Kemerink, MGW Visser, R Franssen, E Beijer… - European journal of …, 2011 - Springer
… The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of positron range on visualization and
quantification in 18 F, 68 Ga and 124 I positron emission tomography (PET)/CT of lung-like tissue…

Positron range in tissue-equivalent materials: experimental microPET studies

H Alva-Sánchez, C Quintana-Bautista… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
… This work presents experimental results to quantify the impact that positron range can have
in the final reconstructed images when β + line-sources are placed inside different tissue-…

The role of PET quantification in cardiovascular imaging

P Slomka, DS Berman, E Alexanderson… - Clinical and translational …, 2014 - Springer
… In addition, 82 Rb does not have optimal imaging characteristics, due to its long positron
range and low extraction fraction. A new imaging tracer, 18 F-flurpiridaz, has recently been …