Advances in PET imaging of cancer

J Schwenck, D Sonanini, JM Cotton… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Molecular imaging has experienced enormous advancements in the areas of imaging
technology, imaging probe and contrast development, and data quality, as well as machine …

Brown adipose tissue—a translational perspective

AC Carpentier, DP Blondin, F Haman… - Endocrine …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Brown adipose tissue (BAT) displays the unique capacity to generate heat through
uncoupled oxidative phosphorylation that makes it a very attractive therapeutic target for …

Colloquium: Positronium physics and biomedical applications

SD Bass, S Mariazzi, P Moskal, E Stępień - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
Positronium is the simplest bound state, built of an electron and a positron. Studies of
positronium in vacuum and its decays in medium tell us about quantum electrodynamics …

First results on kinetic modelling and parametric imaging of dynamic 18F-FDG datasets from a long axial FOV PET scanner in oncological patients

H Sari, C Mingels, I Alberts, J Hu, D Buesser… - European journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose To investigate the kinetics of 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18 F-FDG) by positron
emission tomography (PET) in multiple organs and test the feasibility of total-body …

Long-axial field-of-view PET/CT: perspectives and review of a revolutionary development in nuclear medicine based on clinical experience in over 7000 patients

I Alberts, H Sari, C Mingels, A Afshar-Oromieh, T Pyka… - Cancer Imaging, 2023 - Springer
Recently introduced long-axial field-of-view (LAFOV) PET/CT systems represent one of the
most significant advancements in nuclear medicine since the advent of multi-modality …

Application of the long axial field-of-view PET/CT with low-dose [18F]FDG in melanoma

C Sachpekidis, L Pan, A Kopp-Schneider… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Aim The recent introduction of long axial field-of-view (LAFOV) PET/CT scanners has
yielded very promising results regarding image quality and sensitivity in oncological …

Positronium image of the human brain in vivo

P Moskal, J Baran, S Bass, J Choiński, N Chug… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Positronium is abundantly produced within the molecular voids of a patient's body during
positron emission tomography (PET). Its properties dynamically respond to the submolecular …

Long axial field-of-view PET/CT devices: are we ready for the technological revolution?

L Filippi, A Dimitrakopoulou-Strauss… - Expert Review of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In last decades hybrid imaging, combining molecular and anatomical data in a unique,
synergistic approach, has thoroughly changed the face of medical diagnostics [1, 2]. In …

Fully automated, semantic segmentation of whole-body 18F-FDG PET/CT images based on data-centric artificial intelligence

LKS Sundar, J Yu, O Muzik, OC Kulterer… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - Soc Nuclear Med
We introduce multiple-organ objective segmentation (MOOSE) software that generates
subject-specific, multiorgan segmentation using data-centric artificial intelligence principles …

A deep neural network for parametric image reconstruction on a large axial field-of-view PET

Y Li, J Hu, H Sari, S Xue, R Ma, S Kandarpa… - European journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose The PET scanners with long axial field of view (AFOV) having~ 20 times higher
sensitivity than conventional scanners provide new opportunities for enhanced parametric …