Recent advances and future progress in PET instrumentation

PJ Slomka, T Pan, G Germano - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
PET is an important and growing imaging modality. PET instrumentation has undergone a
steady evolution improving various aspects of imaging. In this review, we discuss recent and …

PET respiratory motion correction: quo vadis?

F Lamare, A Bousse, K Thielemans, C Liu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) respiratory motion correction has been a subject of
great interest for the last twenty years, prompted mainly by the development of multimodality …

Image-driven, model-based 3D abdominal motion estimation for MR-guided radiotherapy

B Stemkens, RHN Tijssen… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Respiratory motion introduces substantial uncertainties in abdominal radiotherapy for which
traditionally large margins are used. The MR-Linac will open up the opportunity to acquire …

4D respiratory motion‐compensated image reconstruction of free‐breathing radial MR data with very high undersampling

CM Rank, T Heußer, MTA Buzan… - Magnetic resonance …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop four‐dimensional (4D) respiratory time‐resolved MRI based on free‐
breathing acquisition of radial MR data with very high undersampling. Methods We propose …

MR-based respiratory and cardiac motion correction for PET imaging

T Küstner, M Schwartz, P Martirosian, S Gatidis… - Medical image …, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose: To develop a motion correction for Positron-Emission-Tomography (PET) using
simultaneously acquired magnetic-resonance (MR) images within 90 s. Methods: A 90 s MR …

Motion correction of respiratory-gated PET images using deep learning based image registration framework

T Li, M Zhang, W Qi, E Asma, J Qi - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Artifacts caused by patient breathing and movement during PET data acquisition affect
image quality. Respiratory gating is commonly used to gate the list-mode PET data into …

Cardiac and respiratory motion correction for simultaneous cardiac PET/MR

C Kolbitsch, MA Ahlman, C Davies-Venn… - Journal of nuclear …, 2017 - Soc Nuclear Med
Cardiac PET is a versatile imaging technique providing important diagnostic information
about ischemic heart diseases. Respiratory and cardiac motion of the heart can strongly …

Correction of respiratory and cardiac motion in cardiac PET/MR using MR-based motion modeling

PM Robson, MG Trivieri, NA Karakatsanis… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) imaging suffers from image blurring due to the
constant motion of the heart that can impact interpretation. Hybrid PET/magnetic resonance …

Validation of software gating: a practical technology for respiratory motion correction in PET

AL Kesner, JH Chung, KE Lind, JJ Kwak, D Lynch… - Radiology, 2016 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To assess the performance of hardware-and software-gating technologies in terms
of qualitative and quantitative characteristics of respiratory motion in positron emission …

Synergistic motion compensation strategies for positron emission tomography when acquired simultaneously with magnetic resonance imaging

I Polycarpou, G Soultanidis… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Subject motion in positron emission tomography (PET) is a key factor that degrades image
resolution and quality, limiting its potential capabilities. Correcting for it is complicated due to …