Advances in micro-CT imaging of small animals

DP Clark, CT Badea - Physica Medica, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose Micron-scale computed tomography (micro-CT) imaging is a ubiquitous, cost-
effective, and non-invasive three-dimensional imaging modality. We review recent …

Systematic review on learning-based spectral CT

A Bousse, VSS Kandarpa, S Rit… - … on Radiation and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spectral computed tomography (CT) has recently emerged as an advanced version of
medical CT and significantly improves conventional (single-energy) CT. Spectral CT has two …

Material decomposition from photon-counting CT using a convolutional neural network and energy-integrating CT training labels

R Nadkarni, A Allphin, DP Clark… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Photon-counting CT (PCCT) has better dose efficiency and spectral resolution
than energy-integrating CT, which is advantageous for material decomposition …

Clinical micro-CT empowered by interior tomography, robotic scanning, and deep learning

M Li, Z Fang, W Cong, C Niu, W Wu, J Uher… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While micro-CT systems are instrumental in preclinical research, clinical micro-CT imaging
has long been desired with cochlear implantation as a primary application. The structural …

Motion correction for robot-based x-ray photon-counting CT at ultrahigh resolution

M Li, J Bohacova, J Uher, W Cong… - Developments in X …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Ultrahigh-resolution CT is highly desirable in many clinical applications, such as cochlear
implantation and coronary stenosis assessment. Despite the wide accessibility to micro-CT …

High-resolution hybrid micro-CT imaging pipeline for mouse brain region segmentation and volumetric morphometry

R Nadkarni, ZY Han, RJ Anderson, AJ Allphin… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Background Brain region segmentation and morphometry in humanized apolipoprotein E
(APOE) mouse models with a human NOS2 background (HN) contribute to Alzheimer's …

Motion correction via locally linear embedding for helical photon-counting CT

M Li, C Lowe, A Butler, P Butler… - … Conference on Image …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
X-ray photon-counting detector (PCD) offers low noise, high resolution, and spectral
characterization, representing a next generation of CT and enabling new biomedical …

Photon-counting computed tomography thermometry via material decomposition and machine learning

N Wang, M Li, P Haverinen - … Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art, 2023 - Springer
Thermal ablation procedures, such as high intensity focused ultrasound and radiofrequency
ablation, are often used to eliminate tumors by minimally invasively heating a focal region …

Exploring charge sharing compensation using inter-pixel coincidence counters for photon counting detectors by deep-learning from local information

S Zhao, L Shen, K Taguchi, Y Xing - Physics in Medicine & …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Photon counting detectors (PCDs) have well-acknowledged advantages in
computed tomography (CT) imaging, such as decreasing noise, relieving beam hardening …

Interior photon-counting CT data denoising via multi-agent reinforcement learning

MS Tanveer, C Wiedeman, Y Shi… - Developments in X …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Interior photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) scans are essential for obtaining
high-resolution images at minimal radiation dose by focusing only on a specific region of …