A review on medical imaging synthesis using deep learning and its clinical applications

T Wang, Y Lei, Y Fu, JF Wynne… - Journal of applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviewed the deep learning‐based studies for medical imaging synthesis and its
clinical application. Specifically, we summarized the recent developments of deep learning …

Tissue mimicking materials for imaging and therapy phantoms: a review

CK McGarry, LJ Grattan, AM Ivory, F Leek… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Tissue mimicking materials (TMMs), typically contained within phantoms, have been used
for many decades in both imaging and therapeutic applications. This review investigates the …

MR‐based synthetic CT generation using a deep convolutional neural network method

X Han - Medical physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Interests have been rapidly growing in the field of radiotherapy to replace CT with
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), due to superior soft tissue contrast offered by MRI and …

MRI‐only based synthetic CT generation using dense cycle consistent generative adversarial networks

Y Lei, J Harms, T Wang, Y Liu, HK Shu, AB Jani… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Automated synthetic computed tomography (sCT) generation based on magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) images would allow for MRI‐only based treatment planning in …

A review of substitute CT generation for MRI-only radiation therapy

JM Edmund, T Nyholm - Radiation Oncology, 2017 - Springer
Radiotherapy based on magnetic resonance imaging as the sole modality (MRI-only RT) is
an area of growing scientific interest due to the increasing use of MRI for both target and …

Generating synthetic CTs from magnetic resonance images using generative adversarial networks

H Emami, M Dong, SP Nejad‐Davarani… - Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose While MR‐only treatment planning using synthetic CTs (synCTs) offers potential for
streamlining clinical workflow, a need exists for an efficient and automated synCT …

Systematic review of synthetic computed tomography generation methodologies for use in magnetic resonance imaging–only radiation therapy

E Johnstone, JJ Wyatt, AM Henry, SC Short… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers superior soft-tissue contrast as compared with
computed tomography (CT), which is conventionally used for radiation therapy treatment …

Radiotherapy planning using MRI

MA Schmidt, GS Payne - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in radiotherapy (RT) planning is rapidly
expanding. We review the wide range of image contrast mechanisms available to MRI and …

Attenuation correction synthesis for hybrid PET-MR scanners: application to brain studies

N Burgos, MJ Cardoso, K Thielemans… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attenuation correction is an essential requirement for quantification of positron emission
tomography (PET) data. In PET/CT acquisition systems, attenuation maps are derived from …

MRI-only treatment planning: benefits and challenges

AM Owrangi, PB Greer… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past decade, the application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has increased,
and there is growing evidence to suggest that improvements in the accuracy of target …