Positron emission tomography: current challenges and opportunities for technological advances in clinical and preclinical imaging systems

JJ Vaquero, P Kinahan - Annual review of biomedical …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is based on detecting two time-coincident high-
energy photons from the emission of a positron-emitting radioisotope. The physics of the …

PET-MRI: a review of challenges and solutions in the development of integrated multimodality imaging

S Vandenberghe, PK Marsden - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The integration of positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) has been an ongoing research topic for the last 20 years. This paper gives an …

Attenuation correction synthesis for hybrid PET-MR scanners: application to brain studies

N Burgos, MJ Cardoso, K Thielemans… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attenuation correction is an essential requirement for quantification of positron emission
tomography (PET) data. In PET/CT acquisition systems, attenuation maps are derived from …

Communication quantization for data-parallel training of deep neural networks

N Dryden, T Moon, SA Jacobs… - 2016 2nd Workshop on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study data-parallel training of deep neural networks on high-performance computing
infrastructure. The key problem with scaling data-parallel training is avoiding severe …

Neuroimaging in Parkinson disease: from research setting to clinical practice

M Politis - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2014 - nature.com
Over the past three decades, neuroimaging studies—including structural, functional and
molecular modalities—have provided invaluable insights into the mechanisms underlying …

Machine learning in PET: from photon detection to quantitative image reconstruction

K Gong, E Berg, SR Cherry, J Qi - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning has found unique applications in nuclear medicine from photon detection
to quantitative image reconstruction. Although there have been impressive strides in …

Simultaneous whole-body PET/MR imaging in comparison to PET/CT in pediatric oncology: initial results

JF Schäfer, S Gatidis, H Schmidt, B Gückel, I Bezrukov… - Radiology, 2014 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To compare positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance (MR)
imaging and PET/computed tomography (CT) for lesion detection and interpretation …

Generating patient specific pseudo-CT of the head from MR using atlas-based regression

J Sjölund, D Forsberg, M Andersson… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Radiotherapy planning and attenuation correction of PET images require simulation of
radiation transport. The necessary physical properties are typically derived from computed …

[HTML][HTML] Combined PET/MR imaging in neurology: MR-based attenuation correction implies a strong spatial bias when ignoring bone

FL Andersen, CN Ladefoged, T Beyer, SH Keller… - Neuroimage, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Aim Combined PET/MR systems have now become available for clinical use. Given
the lack of integrated standard transmission (TX) sources in these systems, attenuation and …

Vision 20/20: magnetic resonance imaging‐guided attenuation correction in PET/MRI: challenges, solutions, and opportunities

A Mehranian, H Arabi, H Zaidi - Medical physics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Attenuation correction is an essential component of the long chain of data correction
techniques required to achieve the full potential of quantitative positron emission …