[HTML][HTML] The promise of artificial intelligence and deep learning in PET and SPECT imaging

H Arabi, A AkhavanAllaf, A Sanaat, I Shiri, H Zaidi - Physica Medica, 2021 - Elsevier
This review sets out to discuss the foremost applications of artificial intelligence (AI),
particularly deep learning (DL) algorithms, in single-photon emission computed tomography …

Advanced Monte Carlo simulations of emission tomography imaging systems with GATE

D Sarrut, M Bała, M Bardiès, J Bert… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Built on top of the Geant4 toolkit, GATE is collaboratively developed for more than 15 years
to design Monte Carlo simulations of nuclear-based imaging systems. It is, in particular …

Physics and technology of time-of-flight PET detectors

DR Schaart - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The imaging performance of clinical positron emission tomography (PET) systems has
evolved impressively during the last∼ 15 years. A main driver of these improvements has …

Hybrid total-body pet scanners—current status and future perspectives

V Nadig, K Herrmann, FM Mottaghy… - European journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Since the 1990s, PET has been successfully combined with MR or CT systems. In
the past years, especially PET systems have seen a trend towards an enlarged axial field of …

Evolution of PET detectors and event positioning algorithms using monolithic scintillation crystals

A Gonzalez-Montoro, AJ Gonzalez… - … on Radiation and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of monolithic scintillator-based photon detectors in positron emission tomography
(PET) has emerged as an attractive alternative to traditional pixelated array designs …

Machine learning in PET: from photon detection to quantitative image reconstruction

K Gong, E Berg, SR Cherry, J Qi - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning has found unique applications in nuclear medicine from photon detection
to quantitative image reconstruction. Although there have been impressive strides in …

Sensors for positron emission tomography applications

W Jiang, Y Chalich, MJ Deen - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is an essential tool in clinical applications for
the diagnosis of diseases due to its ability to acquire functional images to help differentiate …

A neural network-based algorithm for simultaneous event positioning and timestamping in monolithic scintillators

P Carra, MG Bisogni, E Ciarrocchi… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Monolithic scintillator crystals coupled to silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays are
promising detectors for PET applications, offering spatial resolution around 1 mm and depth …

Histopathological biomarkers for predicting the tumour accumulation of nanomedicines

JN May, JI Moss, F Mueller, SK Golombek… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
The clinical prospects of cancer nanomedicines depend on effective patient stratification.
Here we report the identification of predictive biomarkers of the accumulation of …

A semi‐monolithic detector providing intrinsic DOI‐encoding and sub‐200 ps CRT TOF‐capabilities for clinical PET applications

F Mueller, S Naunheim, Y Kuhl, D Schug… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Current clinical positron emission tomography (PET) systems utilize detectors
where the scintillator typically contains single elements of 3–6‐mm width and about 20‐mm …