A review of partial volume correction techniques for emission tomography and their applications in neurology, cardiology and oncology

K Erlandsson, I Buvat, PH Pretorius… - Physics in Medicine …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate quantification in PET and SPECT requires correction for a number of physical
factors, such as photon attenuation, Compton scattering and random coincidences (in PET) …

Optical tomography: forward and inverse problems

SR Arridge, JC Schotland - Inverse problems, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
This is a review of recent mathematical and computational advances in optical tomography.
We discuss the physical foundations of forward models for light propagation on microscopic …

PET image denoising using unsupervised deep learning

J Cui, K Gong, N Guo, C Wu, X Meng, K Kim… - European journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Purpose Image quality of positron emission tomography (PET) is limited by various physical
degradation factors. Our study aims to perform PET image denoising by utilizing prior …

Iterative PET image reconstruction using convolutional neural network representation

K Gong, J Guan, K Kim, X Zhang, J Yang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
PET image reconstruction is challenging due to the ill-poseness of the inverse problem and
limited number of detected photons. Recently, the deep neural networks have been widely …

Resolution modeling in PET imaging: theory, practice, benefits, and pitfalls

A Rahmim, J Qi, V Sossi - Medical physics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, the authors review the field of resolution modeling in positron emission
tomography (PET) image reconstruction, also referred to as point‐spread‐function modeling …

Recent advances in diffuse optical imaging

AP Gibson, JC Hebden, SR Arridge - Physics in medicine & …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the current state-of-the-art of diffuse optical imaging, which is an emerging
technique for functional imaging of biological tissue. It involves generating images using …

X-ray-based attenuation correction for positron emission tomography/computed tomography scanners

PE Kinahan, BH Hasegawa, T Beyer - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2003 - Elsevier
A synergy of positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scanners is
the use of the CT data for x-ray-based attenuation correction of the PET emission data …

Determination of the attenuation map in emission tomography

H Zaidi, B Hasegawa - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2003 - Soc Nuclear Med
Reliable attenuation correction methods for quantitative emission CT (ECT) require accurate
delineation of the body contour and often necessitate knowledge of internal anatomic …

Dynamic PET image denoising using deep convolutional neural networks without prior training datasets

F Hashimoto, H Ohba, K Ote, A Teramoto… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning has attracted growing interest for application to medical imaging, such as
positron emission tomography (PET), due to its excellent performance. Convolutional neural …

[HTML][HTML] Image reconstruction for PET/CT scanners: past achievements and future challenges

S Tong, AM Alessio, PE Kinahan - Imaging in medicine, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PET is a medical imaging modality with proven clinical value for disease diagnosis and
treatment monitoring. The integration of PET and CT on modern scanners provides a …