PET is used in laboratory small-animal research to visualize and track certain molecular processes associated with diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and neurologic …
M Fu, N Zhang, Z Huang, C Zhou… - … on Medical Imaging, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The short frames of low-count positron emission tomography (PET) images generally cause high levels of statistical noise. Thus, improving the quality of low-count images by using …
Monte Carlo simulations play an important role in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, as an essential tool for the research and development of new scanners and for …
G Pratx, G Chinn, PD Olcott… - IEEE transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
List-mode processing provides an efficient way to deal with sparse projections in iterative image reconstruction for emission tomography. An issue often reported is the tremendous …
The axial field of view (FOV) is a key factor that affects the quality of PET images. Due to hardware FOV restrictions, conventional short-axis PET scanners with FOVs of 20 to 35 cm …
N Omidvari, J Cabello, G Topping… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
MADPET4 is the first small animal PET insert with two layers of individually read out crystals in combination with silicon photomultiplier technology. It has a novel detector arrangement …
Featured Application This work demonstrates that a trained deep neural network is able to accurately correct the blurring present in PET images when using radionuclides with large …
T Yamaya, E Yoshida, T Obi, H Ito… - … on Nuclear Science, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The jPET-D4 is a novel brain PET scanner which aims to achieve not only high spatial resolution but also high scanner sensitivity by using 4-layer depth-of-interaction (DOI) …
Purpose Image quality of positron emission tomography (PET) tracers that emits high-energy positrons, such as Ga-68, Rb-82, or I-124, is significantly affected by positron range (PR) …