Dynamic whole-body PET imaging: principles, potentials and applications

A Rahmim, MA Lodge, NA Karakatsanis… - European journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Purpose In this article, we discuss dynamic whole-body (DWB) positron emission
tomography (PET) as an imaging tool with significant clinical potential, in relation to …

Kinetic modeling and parametric imaging with dynamic PET for oncological applications: general considerations, current clinical applications, and future perspectives

A Dimitrakopoulou-Strauss, L Pan… - European journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Dynamic PET (dPET) studies have been used until now primarily within research purposes.
Although it is generally accepted that the information provided by dPET is superior to that of …

Advantages and applications of total-body PET scanning

S Katal, LS Eibschutz, B Saboury… - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recent studies have focused on the development of total-body PET scanning in a variety of
fields such as clinical oncology, cardiology, personalized medicine, drug development and …

Parametric image generation with the uEXPLORER total-body PET/CT system through deep learning

Z Huang, Y Wu, F Fu, N Meng, F Gu, Q Wu… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Total-body dynamic positron emission tomography/computed tomography
(PET/CT) provides much sensitivity for clinical imaging and research, bringing new …

Towards enhanced PET quantification in clinical oncology

H Zaidi, N Karakatsanis - The British journal of radiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Positron emission tomography (PET) has, since its inception, established itself as the
imaging modality of choice for the in vivo quantitative assessment of molecular targets in a …

Assessment of population-based input functions for Patlak imaging of whole body dynamic 18F-FDG PET

M Naganawa, JD Gallezot, V Shah, T Mulnix, C Young… - EJNMMI physics, 2020 - Springer
Background Arterial blood sampling is the gold standard method to obtain the arterial input
function (AIF) for quantification of whole body (WB) dynamic 18 F-FDG PET imaging …

Short-time total-body dynamic PET imaging performance in quantifying the kinetic metrics of 18F-FDG in healthy volunteers

G Liu, H Yu, D Shi, P Hu, Y Hu, H Tan, Y Zhang… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose To investigate the performance of short-time dynamic imaging in quantifying kinetic
metrics of 2-[18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (18F-FDG). Methods Dynamic total-body …

Shortened duration whole body 18F-FDG PET Patlak imaging on the Biograph Vision Quadra PET/CT using a population-averaged input function

J van Sluis, JH van Snick, AH Brouwers, W Noordzij… - EJNMMI physics, 2022 - Springer
Background Excellent performance characteristics of the Vision Quadra PET/CT, eg a
substantial increase in sensitivity, allow for precise measurements of image-derived input …

Does whole-body Patlak 18F-FDG PET imaging improve lesion detectability in clinical oncology?

G Fahrni, NA Karakatsanis, G Di Domenicantonio… - European …, 2019 - Springer
Purpose Single-pass whole-body (WB) 18 F-FDG PET/CT imaging is routinely employed for
the clinical assessment of malignant, infectious, and inflammatory diseases. Our aim in this …

Whole-body direct 4D parametric PET imaging employing nested generalized Patlak expectation–maximization reconstruction

NA Karakatsanis, ME Casey, MA Lodge… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Whole-body (WB) dynamic PET has recently demonstrated its potential in translating the
quantitative benefits of parametric imaging to the clinic. Post-reconstruction standard Patlak …