System models for PET statistical iterative reconstruction: A review

A Iriarte, R Marabini, S Matej, COS Sorzano… - … Medical Imaging and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear imaging modality that provides in vivo
quantitative measurements of the spatial and temporal distribution of compounds labeled …

Current trends in preclinical PET system design

CS Levin, H Zaidi - PET clinics, 2007 - Elsevier
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 …

Oif-net: An optical flow registration-based pet/mr cross-modal interactive fusion network for low-count brain pet image denoising

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 …

PeneloPET, a Monte Carlo PET simulation tool based on PENELOPE: features and validation

S España, JL Herraiz, E Vicente… - Physics in Medicine …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Fast, accurate and shift-varying line projections for iterative reconstruction using the GPU

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 …

A two-branch neural network for short-axis PET image quality enhancement

M Fu, M Wang, Y Wu, N Zhang, Y Yang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

PET performance evaluation of MADPET4: a small animal PET insert for a 7 T MRI scanner

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 …

Deep-learning based positron range correction of PET images

JL Herraiz, A Bembibre, A López-Montes - Applied sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
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 …

First human brain imaging by the jPET-D4 prototype with a pre-computed system matrix

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) …

Improving PET Quantification of Small Animal [68Ga]DOTA-Labeled PET/CT Studies by Using a CT-Based Positron Range Correction

J Cal-Gonzalez, JJ Vaquero, JL Herraiz… - Molecular Imaging and …, 2018 - Springer
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) …