Dynamic whole-body PET imaging: principles, potentials and applications

A Rahmim, MA Lodge, NA Karakatsanis… - European journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Purpose In this article, we discuss dynamic whole-body (DWB) positron emission
tomography (PET) as an imaging tool with significant clinical potential, in relation to …

PET parametric imaging: past, present, and future

G Wang, A Rahmim, RN Gunn - IEEE transactions on radiation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) is actively used in a diverse range of applications in
oncology, cardiology, and neurology. The use of PET in the clinical setting focuses on static …

PET-guided delineation of radiation therapy treatment volumes: a survey of image segmentation techniques

H Zaidi, I El Naqa - European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular …, 2010 - Springer
Historically, anatomical CT and MR images were used to delineate the gross tumour
volumes (GTVs) for radiotherapy treatment planning. The capabilities offered by modern …

PET image reconstruction using kernel method

G Wang, J Qi - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image reconstruction from low-count positron emission tomography (PET) projection data is
challenging because the inverse problem is ill-posed. Prior information can be used to …

Low-rank modeling and its applications in image analysis

X Zhou, C Yang, H Zhao, W Yu - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2014 - dl.acm.org
Low-rank modeling generally refers to a class of methods that solves problems by
representing variables of interest as low-rank matrices. It has achieved great success in …

A deep neural network for parametric image reconstruction on a large axial field-of-view PET

Y Li, J Hu, H Sari, S Xue, R Ma, S Kandarpa… - European journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose The PET scanners with long axial field of view (AFOV) having~ 20 times higher
sensitivity than conventional scanners provide new opportunities for enhanced parametric …

A novel fuzzy C‐means algorithm for unsupervised heterogeneous tumor quantification in PET

S Belhassen, H Zaidi - Medical physics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Accurate and robust image segmentation was identified as one of the most
challenging issues facing PET quantification in oncological imaging. This difficulty is …

Dynamic PET image reconstruction using nonnegative matrix factorization incorporated with deep image prior

T Yokota, K Kawai, M Sakata… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We propose a method that reconstructs dynamic positron emission tomography (PET)
images from given sinograms by using non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) incorporated …

[HTML][HTML] Direct estimation of kinetic parametric images for dynamic PET

G Wang, J Qi - Theranostics, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) can monitor spatiotemporal distribution of
radiotracer in vivo. The spatiotemporal information can be used to estimate parametric …

Dynamic PET image denoising using deep image prior combined with regularization by denoising

H Sun, L Peng, H Zhang, Y He, S Cao, L Lu - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The quantitative accuracy of positron emission tomography (PET) is affected by several
factors, including the intrinsic resolution of the imaging system and inherently noisy data …