Extending the clinical capabilities of short-and long-lived positron-emitting radionuclides through high sensitivity PET/CT

J van Sluis, R Borra, C Tsoumpas, JH van Snick… - Cancer Imaging, 2022 - Springer
This review describes the main benefits of using long axial field of view (LAFOV) PET in
clinical applications. As LAFOV PET is the latest development in PET instrumentation, many …

[HTML][HTML] Radionuclide generators: the prospect of availing PET radiotracers to meet current clinical needs and future research demands

A Dash, R Chakravarty - American journal of nuclear medicine and …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Targeted molecular imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) constitutes a
successful technique for detecting and diagnosing disease conditions promptly and …

Using domain knowledge for robust and generalizable deep learning-based CT-free PET attenuation and scatter correction

R Guo, S Xue, J Hu, H Sari, C Mingels… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the potential of deep learning (DL)-based methods in substituting CT-based PET
attenuation and scatter correction for CT-free PET imaging, a critical bottleneck is their …

Artificial intelligence enables whole-body positron emission tomography scans with minimal radiation exposure

YR Wang, L Baratto, KE Hawk, AJ Theruvath… - European journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose To generate diagnostic 18 F-FDG PET images of pediatric cancer patients from
ultra-low-dose 18 F-FDG PET input images, using a novel artificial intelligence (AI) …

Image enhancement of whole-body oncology [18F]-FDG PET scans using deep neural networks to reduce noise

A Mehranian, SD Wollenweber, MD Walker… - European journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose To enhance the image quality of oncology [18F]-FDG PET scans acquired in
shorter times and reconstructed by faster algorithms using deep neural networks. Methods …

Towards lower-dose PET using physics-based uncertainty-aware multimodal learning with robustness to out-of-distribution data

VP Sudarshan, U Upadhyay, GF Egan, Z Chen… - Medical Image …, 2021 - Elsevier
Radiation exposure in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging limits its usage in the
studies of radiation-sensitive populations, eg, pregnant women, children, and adults that …

Image quality and activity optimization in oncologic 18F-FDG PET using the digital biograph vision PET/CT system

J van Sluis, R Boellaard, RAJO Dierckx… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2020 - Soc Nuclear Med
The first Biograph Vision PET/CT system (Siemens Healthineers) was installed at the
University Medical Center Groningen. Improved performance of this system could allow for a …

Reduction of 18F-FDG Dose in Clinical PET/MR Imaging by Using Silicon Photomultiplier Detectors

T Sekine, G Delso, KG Zeimpekis, F de Galiza Barbosa… - Radiology, 2018 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To determine the level of clinically acceptable reduction in injected fluorine 18
(18F) fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) dose in time-of-flight (TOF)–positron emission tomography …

Head-to-head comparison between digital and analog PET of human and phantom images when optimized for maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio from small lesions

J Salvadori, F Odille, A Verger, P Olivier, G Karcher… - EJNMMI physics, 2020 - Springer
Background Routine PET exams are increasingly performed with reduced injected activities,
leading to the use of different image reconstruction parameters than the NEMA parameters …

[HTML][HTML] High-quality PET image synthesis from ultra-low-dose PET/MRI using bi-task deep learning

H Sun, Y Jiang, J Yuan, H Wang, D Liang… - … Imaging in Medicine …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Lowering the dose for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging reduces
patients' radiation burden but decreases the image quality by increasing noise and reducing …