Synergistic motion compensation strategies for positron emission tomography when acquired simultaneously with magnetic resonance imaging

I Polycarpou, G Soultanidis… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Subject motion in positron emission tomography (PET) is a key factor that degrades image
resolution and quality, limiting its potential capabilities. Correcting for it is complicated due to …

Core Imaging Library-Part I: a versatile Python framework for tomographic imaging

JS Jørgensen, E Ametova, G Burca… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We present the Core Imaging Library (CIL), an open-source Python framework for
tomographic imaging with particular emphasis on reconstruction of challenging datasets …

Open‐source magnetic resonance imaging: Improving access, science, and education through global collaboration

L Winter, J Periquito, C Kolbitsch… - NMR in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Open‐source practices and resources in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have increased
substantially in recent years. This trend started with software and data being published open …

Core Imaging Library-Part II: multichannel reconstruction for dynamic and spectral tomography

E Papoutsellis, E Ametova… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The newly developed core imaging library (CIL) is a flexible plug and play library for
tomographic imaging with a specific focus on iterative reconstruction. CIL provides building …

TOF-PET image reconstruction with multiple timing kernels applied on Cherenkov radiation in BGO

N Efthimiou, N Kratochwil, S Gundacker… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today Time-of-Flight (TOF), in PET scanners, assumes a single, well-defined timing
resolution for all events. However, recent BGO-Cherenkov detectors, combining prompt …

Image reconstruction analysis for positron emission tomography with heterostructured scintillators

P Mohr, N Efthimiou, F Pagano… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The concept of structure engineering has been proposed for exploring the next generation of
radiation detectors with improved performance. A TOF-PET geometry with heterostructured …

Score-based generative models for PET image reconstruction

IRD Singh, A Denker, R Barbano, Ž Kereta… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Score-based generative models have demonstrated highly promising results for medical
image reconstruction tasks in magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography …

[HTML][HTML] PET image reconstruction using physical and mathematical modelling for time of flight PET-MR scanners in the STIR library

P Wadhwa, K Thielemans, N Efthimiou, K Wangerin… - Methods, 2021 - Elsevier
This work demonstrates how computational and physical modelling of the positron emission
tomography (PET) image acquisition process for a state-of-the-art integrated PET and …

Data-driven, energy-based method for estimation of scattered events in positron emission tomography

N Efthimiou, JS Karp, S Surti - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Scattered events add bias in the reconstructed positron emission tomography
(PET) images. Our objective is the accurate estimation of the scatter distribution, required for …

Motion estimation and correction for simultaneous PET/MR using SIRF and CIL

R Brown, C Kolbitsch, C Delplancke… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
SIRF is a powerful PET/MR image reconstruction research tool for processing data and
developing new algorithms. In this research, new developments to SIRF are presented, with …