Operational and dosimetric aspects of pediatric PET/CT

FH Fahey, A Goodkind, RD MacDougall… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2017 - Soc Nuclear Med
No consistent guidelines exist for the acquisition of a CT scan as part of pediatric PET/CT.
Given that children may be more vulnerable to the effects of ionizing radiation, it is …

EANM procedural recommendations for managing the paediatric patient in diagnostic nuclear medicine

L Camoni, A Santos, M Luporsi, A Grilo… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose The manuscript aims to characterize the principles of best practice in performing
nuclear medicine procedures in paediatric patients. The paper describes all necessary …

XCIST—an open access x-ray/CT simulation toolkit

M Wu, P FitzGerald, J Zhang, WP Segars… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. X-ray-based imaging modalities including mammography and computed
tomography (CT) are widely used in cancer screening, diagnosis, staging, treatment …

Convolutional neural network–based metal and streak artifacts reduction in dental CT images with sparse‐view sampling scheme

S Kim, J Ahn, B Kim, C Kim, J Baek - Medical physics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Sparse‐view sampling has attracted attention for reducing the scan time and
radiation dose of dental cone‐beam computed tomography (CBCT). Recently, various deep …

SPULTRA: Low-dose CT image reconstruction with joint statistical and learned image models

S Ye, S Ravishankar, Y Long… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-dose CT image reconstruction has been a popular research topic in recent years. A
typical reconstruction method based on post-log measurements is called penalized …

Statistical image reconstruction using mixed Poisson-Gaussian noise model for X-ray CT

Q Ding, Y Long, X Zhang, JA Fessler - arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.09533, 2018 - arxiv.org
Statistical image reconstruction (SIR) methods for X-ray CT produce high-quality and
accurate images, while greatly reducing patient exposure to radiation. When further …

[HTML][HTML] Low-dose CT for the spatial normalization of PET images: A validation procedure for amyloid-PET semi-quantification

L Presotto, L Iaccarino, A Sala, EG Vanoli, C Muscio… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2018 - Elsevier
The reference standard for spatial normalization of brain positron emission tomography
(PET) images involves structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Ultra-low dose whole-body CT for attenuation correction in a dual tracer PET/CT protocol for multiple myeloma

E Prieto, MJ García-Velloso, JD Aquerreta, JJ Rosales… - Physica Medica, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose To investigate within phantoms the minimum CT dose allowed for accurate
attenuation correction of PET data and to quantify the effective dose reduction when a CT for …

Multi-technique hybrid imaging in PET/CT and PET/MR: what does the future hold?

F de Galiza Barbosa, G Delso, E Ter Voert… - Clinical radiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Integrated positron-emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT) is one of the
most important imaging techniques to have emerged in oncological practice in the last …

The value of AI in the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of malignant lung cancer

Y Wang, H Cai, Y Pu, J Li, F Yang, C Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Malignant tumors is a serious public health threat. Among them, lung cancer, which has the
highest fatality rate globally, has significantly endangered human health. With the …