A review on the application of deep learning for CT reconstruction, bone segmentation and surgical planning in oral and maxillofacial surgery

J Minnema, A Ernst, M van Eijnatten… - Dentomaxillofacial …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Computer-assisted surgery (CAS) allows clinicians to personalize treatments and surgical
interventions and has therefore become an increasingly popular treatment modality in …

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 …

Accuracies of the synthesized monochromatic CT numbers and effective atomic numbers obtained with a rapid kVp switching dual energy CT scanner

MM Goodsitt, EG Christodoulou, SC Larson - Medical physics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: This study was performed to investigate the accuracies of the synthesized
monochromatic images and effective atomic number maps obtained with the new GE …

A personalized deep learning denoising strategy for low-count PET images

Q Liu, H Liu, N Mirian, S Ren… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Deep learning denoising networks are typically trained with images that are
representative of the testing data. Due to the large variability of the noise levels in positron …

Ultralow‐parameter denoising: trainable bilateral filter layers in computed tomography

F Wagner, M Thies, M Gu, Y Huang… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Computed tomography (CT) is widely used as an imaging tool to visualize three‐
dimensional structures with expressive bone‐soft tissue contrast. However, CT resolution …

Anatomically aided PET image reconstruction using deep neural networks

Z Xie, T Li, X Zhang, W Qi, E Asma, J Qi - Medical physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The developments of PET/CT and PET/MR scanners provide opportunities for
improving PET image quality by using anatomical information. In this paper, we propose a …

Development and characterization of modular readout design for two-panel head-and-neck dedicated PET system based on CZT detectors

Y Wang, R Herbst… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors are suitable for various applications due to the good
energy resolution and the simple pixilation to achieve high spatial resolution. Our group is …

[HTML][HTML] A learning-based method for online adjustment of C-arm Cone-beam CT source trajectories for artifact avoidance

M Thies, JN Zäch, C Gao, R Taylor, N Navab… - International journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose During spinal fusion surgery, screws are placed close to critical nerves suggesting
the need for highly accurate screw placement. Verifying screw placement on high-quality …

[HTML][HTML] Toward on-the-fly trajectory optimization for C-arm CBCT under strong kinematic constraints

S Hatamikia, A Biguri, G Kronreif, M Figl, T Russ… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) has become a vital tool in interventional
radiology. Usually, a circular source-detector trajectory is used to acquire a three …

iPhantom: A Framework for Automated Creation of Individualized Computational Phantoms and Its Application to CT Organ Dosimetry

W Fu, S Sharma, E Abadi, AS Iliopoulos… - IEEE journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: This study aims to develop and validate a novel framework, iPhantom, for
automated creation of patient-specific phantoms or “digital-twins (DT)” using patient medical …