Use of advanced neuroimaging and artificial intelligence in meningiomas

N Galldiks, F Angenstein, JM Werner, EK Bauer… - Brain …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Anatomical cross‐sectional imaging methods such as contrast‐enhanced MRI and CT are
the standard for the delineation, treatment planning, and follow‐up of patients with …

Imaging inflammation in patients and animals: focus on PET imaging the vulnerable plaque

B Bartlett, HP Ludewick, S Lee, S Verma, RJ Francis… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) describes a range of conditions associated with the rupture
of high-risk or vulnerable plaque. Vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque is associated with many …

Comparison of image quality and spatial resolution between 18F, 68Ga, and 64Cu phantom measurements using a digital Biograph Vision PET/CT

A Braune, L Oehme, R Freudenberg, F Hofheinz… - EJNMMI physics, 2022 - Springer
Background PET nuclides can have a considerable influence on the spatial resolution and
image quality of PET/CT scans, which can influence diagnostics in oncology, for example …

Impact of the Noise Penalty Factor on Quantification in Bayesian Penalized Likelihood (Q.Clear) Reconstructions of 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT Scans

S Rijnsdorp, MJ Roef, AJ Arends - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Functional imaging with 68Ga prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) and positron
emission tomography (PET) can fulfill an important role in treatment selection and …

[HTML][HTML] Implementation of a spatially-variant and tissue-dependent positron range correction for PET/CT imaging

H Kertész, T Beyer, V Panin, W Jentzen… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Aim To develop and evaluate a new approach for spatially variant and tissue-dependent
positron range (PR) correction (PRC) during the iterative PET image reconstruction …

Positron range corrections and denoising techniques for gallium-68 PET imaging: a literature review

P Gavriilidis, M Koole, S Annunziata, FM Mottaghy… - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Gallium-68 (68Ga) is characterized by relatively high positron energy compared to Fluorine-
18 (18F), causing substantial image quality degradation. Furthermore, the presence of …

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 …

Positron range in combination with point-spread-function correction: an evaluation of different implementations for [124I]-PET imaging

H Kertész, M Conti, V Panin, J Cabello, D Bharkhada… - EJNMMI physics, 2022 - Springer
Aim To evaluate the effect of combining positron range correction (PRC) with point-spread-
function (PSF) correction and to compare different methods of implementation into iterative …

Evaluation of image quality with four positron emitters and three preclinical PET/CT systems

J Teuho, L Riehakainen, A Honkaniemi, O Moisio… - EJNMMI research, 2020 - Springer
Background We investigated the image quality of 11 C, 68 Ga, 18 F and 89 Zr, which have
different positron fractions, physical half-lifes and positron ranges. Three small animal …

Evaluation of a 68Ga-Labeled DOTA-Tetrazine as a PET Alternative to 111In-SPECT Pretargeted Imaging

PE Edem, JT Jørgensen, K Nørregaard, R Rossin… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The bioorthogonal reaction between a tetrazine and strained trans-cyclooctene (TCO) has
garnered success in pretargeted imaging. This reaction was first validated in nuclear …