The silicon photomultiplier: fundamentals and applications of a modern solid-state photon detector

S Gundacker, A Heering - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) is an established device of choice for a variety of
applications, eg in time of flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET), lifetime …

Biology and medicine in the landscape of quantum advantages

BA Cordier, NPD Sawaya… - Journal of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Quantum computing holds substantial potential for applications in biology and medicine,
spanning from the simulation of biomolecules to machine learning methods for subtyping …

Classification and evaluation strategies of auto‐segmentation approaches for PET: Report of AAPM task group No. 211

M Hatt, JA Lee, CR Schmidtlein, IE Naqa… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The purpose of this educational report is to provide an overview of the present state‐
of‐the‐art PET auto‐segmentation (PET‐AS) algorithms and their respective validation, with …

MRI for attenuation correction in PET: methods and challenges

G Wagenknecht, HJ Kaiser, FM Mottaghy… - … resonance materials in …, 2013 - Springer
In current combined PET/MR systems, PET attenuation correction is based on MRI, since the
small bore inside MRI systems and the strong magnetic field do not permit a rotating PET …

PET/MR imaging: technical aspects and potential clinical applications

DA Torigian, H Zaidi, TC Kwee, B Saboury, JK Udupa… - Radiology, 2013 - pubs.rsna.org
Instruments that combine positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance
(MR) imaging have recently been assembled for use in humans, and may have diagnostic …

Multifunctional superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles: design, synthesis and biomedical photonic applications

L Zhang, WF Dong, HB Sun - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) have shown great promise in
biomedical applications. In this review, we summarize the recent advances in the design …

Competitive advantage of PET/MRI

H Jadvar, PM Colletti - European journal of radiology, 2014 - Elsevier
Multimodality imaging has made great strides in the imaging evaluation of patients with a
variety of diseases. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is now …

Vision 20/20: magnetic resonance imaging‐guided attenuation correction in PET/MRI: challenges, solutions, and opportunities

A Mehranian, H Arabi, H Zaidi - Medical physics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Attenuation correction is an essential component of the long chain of data correction
techniques required to achieve the full potential of quantitative positron emission …

SiPM applications in positron emission tomography: toward ultimate PET time-of-flight resolution

P Lecoq, S Gundacker - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2021 - epjplus.epj.org
The development of PET/MRI multimodality, requiring magnetic field immunity of the
photodetectors associated with an increased demand for time-of-flight capabilities with a …

Magnetic resonance–based attenuation correction for PET/MR hybrid imaging using continuous valued attenuation maps

BK Navalpakkam, H Braun, T Kuwert… - Investigative …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Objectives Attenuation correction of positron emission tomographic (PET) data is critical in
providing accurate and quantitative PET volumes. Deriving an attenuation map (μ-map) from …