A review of PET attenuation correction methods for PET-MR

G Krokos, J MacKewn, J Dunn, P Marsden - EJNMMI physics, 2023 - Springer
Despite being thirteen years since the installation of the first PET-MR system, the scanners
constitute a very small proportion of the total hybrid PET systems installed. This is in stark …

[HTML][HTML] EANM guidelines for PET-CT and PET-MR routine quality control

M Koole, I Armstrong, AK Krizsan, A Stromvall… - … für Medizinische Physik, 2023 - Elsevier
We present guidelines by the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) for routine
quality control (QC) of PET-CT and PET-MR systems. These guidelines are partially based …

Quantitative PET in the 2020s: a roadmap

SR Meikle, V Sossi, E Roncali, SR Cherry… - Physics in medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) plays an increasingly important role in research and
clinical applications, catalysed by remarkable technical advances and a growing …

Time of flight in perspective: instrumental and computational aspects of time resolution in positron emission tomography

DR Schaart, G Schramm, J Nuyts… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The first time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) scanners were developed
as early as in the 1980s. However, the poor light output and low detection efficiency of TOF …

Quantification and discriminative power of 18F-FE-PE2I PET in patients with Parkinson's disease

A Delva, D Van Weehaeghe, J van Aalst… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Rationale Dopamine transporter (DAT) imaging is an important adjunct in the diagnostic
workup of patients with Parkinsonism. 18 F-FE-PE2I is a suitable PET radioligand for DAT …

Regional glucose metabolic decreases with ageing are associated with microstructural white matter changes: a simultaneous PET/MR study

J van Aalst, M Devrome, D Van Weehaeghe… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Human ageing is associated with a regional reduction in cerebral neuronal activity
as assessed by numerous studies on brain glucose metabolism and perfusion, grey matter …

Moving toward multicenter therapeutic trials in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: feasibility of data pooling using different translocator protein PET radioligands

D Van Weehaeghe, S Babu, J De Vocht… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2020 - Soc Nuclear Med
Neuroinflammation has been implicated in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and can be
visualized using translocator protein (TSPO) radioligands. To become a reliable …

Timing offset calibration for TOF PET using stationary line source scans at multiple positions

A Li, X Zhang, X Zhou, L Fang, J Hu, B Li… - Physics in Medicine …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Background. Accurate timing offset calibration is crucial for time-of-flight (TOF) positron
emission tomography (PET) to mitigate image artifacts and improve quantitative accuracy …

Long-term Ashtanga yoga practice decreases medial temporal and brainstem glucose metabolism in relation to years of experience

J van Aalst, J Ceccarini, G Schramm… - EJNMMI research, 2020 - Springer
Background Yoga is increasingly popular worldwide with several physical and mental
benefits, but the underlying neurobiology remains unclear. Whereas many studies have …

Feasibility of PET-enabled dual-energy CT imaging: First physical phantom and initial patient study results

Y Zhu, S Li, Z Xie, EK Leung, R Bayerlein… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose Dual-energy (DE) CT enables material decomposition by using two different x-ray
energies and may be combined with PET for improved multimodality imaging. However, this …