Advances in time-of-flight PET

S Surti, JS Karp - Physica medica, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper provides a review and an update on time-of-flight PET imaging with a focus on
PET instrumentation, ranging from hardware design to software algorithms. We first present …

Attenuation correction in emission tomography using the emission data—a review

Y Berker, Y Li - Medical physics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The problem of attenuation correction (AC) for quantitative positron emission tomography
(PET) had been considered solved to a large extent after the commercial availability of …

ML-reconstruction for TOF-PET with simultaneous estimation of the attenuation factors

A Rezaei, M Defrise, J Nuyts - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In positron emission tomography (PET), attenuation correction is typically done based on
information obtained from transmission tomography. Recent studies show that time-of-flight …

LSO background radiation as a transmission source using time of flight

H Rothfuss, V Panin, A Moor, J Young… - Physics in Medicine …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract LSO scintillators (Lu 2 Sio 5: Ce) have a background radiation which originates
from the isotope Lu-176 that is present in natural occurring lutetium. The decay that occurs in …

Transmission-less attenuation correction in time-of-flight PET: analysis of a discrete iterative algorithm

M Defrise, A Rezaei, J Nuyts - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The maximum likelihood attenuation correction factors (MLACF) algorithm has been
developed to calculate the maximum-likelihood estimate of the activity image and the …

Simultaneous reconstruction of the activity image and registration of the CT image in TOF-PET

A Rezaei, C Michel, ME Casey… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Previously, maximum-likelihood methods have been proposed to jointly estimate the activity
image and the attenuation image or the attenuation sinogram from time-of-flight (TOF) …

Reconstruction with partially known attenuation information in time of flight positron emission tomography

VY Panin, M Defrise, J Nuyts - US Patent 9,155,514, 2015 - Google Patents
Reconstruction in positron emission tomography is per formed with partially known
attenuation. A PET-CT scanner is used to generate a PET image with time of flight emission …

[HTML][HTML] Research on combustion flow field imaging method based on ray casting algorithm

M Yao, Y Zhang, M Zhao, R Guo, J Xu - Aip Advances, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Measurement of flame or combustion is an important method to estimate combustion quality,
study the performance of engine and develop renewable energy sources. This paper …

Evaluation of MLACF based calculated attenuation brain PET imaging for FDG patient studies

H Bal, VY Panin, G Platsch, M Defrise… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Calculating attenuation correction for brain PET imaging rather than using CT presents
opportunities for low radiation dose applications such as pediatric imaging and serial scans …

Reconstruction of uniform sensitivity emission image with partially known axial attenuation information in PET-CT scanners

VY Panin, M Defrise, J Nuyts, A Rezaei… - 2012 IEEE nuclear …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In PET-CT the axial length of image reconstruction is defined by the CT scan, which delivers
an axial extend-dependent radiation dose. The beginning and end scanning points for CT …