Penalized-likelihood sinogram restoration for computed tomography

PJ La Rivière, J Bian, PA Vargas - IEEE transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We formulate computed tomography (CT) sinogram preprocessing as a statistical restoration
problem in which the goal is to obtain the best estimate of the line integrals needed for …

High-fidelity artifact correction for cone-beam CT imaging of the brain

A Sisniega, W Zbijewski, J Xu, H Dang… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
CT is the frontline imaging modality for diagnosis of acute traumatic brain injury (TBI),
involving the detection of fresh blood in the brain (contrast of 30–50 HU, detail size down to …

System for emission-guided high-energy photon delivery

B Harper, R Wiggers, D Larkin, D Meer… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein are radiation therapy systems and methods. These radiation therapy
systems and methods are used for emission-guided radiation therapy, where gamma rays …

Systems and methods for patient monitoring for radiotherapy

TL LAURENCE, J Janardhanan - US Patent 11,369,806, 2022 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for real-time monitoring of patient position and/or
location during a radiation treatment session. Images acquired of a patient during a …

Converting a digital radiograph to an absolute thickness map

BW Lasiuk, TJ Batzinger, M Venugopal… - US Patent …, 2009 - Google Patents
A digital radiography imaging system for acquiring digital images of an object, and a method
for transforming digital images into an absolute thickness map characterizing the object …

Radiation therapy systems and methods with tumor tracking

M Maolinbay - US Patent 11,504,550, 2022 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A radiation therapy system comprising a therapeutic radia tion system (eg,
an MV X-ray source, and/or a linac) and a co-planar imaging system (eg, a kV X-ray system) …

Radiation therapy patient platform

W Pearce, B Harper - US Patent 10,702,715, 2020 - Google Patents
Described here are systems, devices, and methods for imaging and radiotherapy
procedures. Generally, a radiotherapy system may include a radiotransparent patient …

Methods for pet detector afterglow management

PD Olcott, MF Bieniosek - US Patent 10,795,037, 2020 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein are methods and devices for the acquisition of positron emission (or PET)
data in the presence of ionizing radiation that causes afterglow of PET detectors. In one …

Method and apparatus for emission guided radiation therapy

S Mazin - US Patent 10,959,686, 2021 - Google Patents
An apparatus comprising a radiation source, coincident positron emission detectors
configured to detect coincident positron annihilation emissions originating within a coordi …

Gamma-ray camera system

D Ramsden - US Patent 7,504,635, 2009 - Google Patents
A scintillator crystal (26) based gamma-ray camera system is described. The gamma-ray
camera system includes a spectra processing component for (34) providing improved …