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 …

Iterative reconstruction techniques in emission computed tomography

J Qi, RM Leahy - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
In emission tomography statistically based iterative methods can improve image quality
relative to analytic image reconstruction through more accurate physical and statistical …

PET image reconstruction using deep image prior

K Gong, C Catana, J Qi, Q Li - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, deep neural networks have been widely and successfully applied in computer
vision tasks and have attracted growing interest in medical imaging. One barrier for the …

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 …

AMIDE: a free software tool for multimodality medical image analysis

AM Loening, SS Gambhir - Molecular imaging, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
Amide's a Medical Image Data Examiner (AMIDE) has been developed as a user-friendly,
open-source software tool for displaying and analyzing multimodality volumetric medical …

Physical Performance of the new hybrid PET/CT Discovery‐690

V Bettinardi, L Presotto, E Rapisarda, M Picchio… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The aim of this work was the assessment of the physical performance of the new
hybrid PET/CT system: Discovery‐690. Methods: The Discovery‐690 combines a lutetium …

Digimouse: a 3D whole body mouse atlas from CT and cryosection data

B Dogdas, D Stout, AF Chatziioannou… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We have constructed a three-dimensional (3D) whole body mouse atlas from coregistered x-
ray CT and cryosection data of a normal nude male mouse. High quality PET, x-ray CT and …

Fully 3-D PET reconstruction with system matrix derived from point source measurements

VY Panin, F Kehren, C Michel… - IEEE transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The quality of images reconstructed by statistical iterative methods depends on an accurate
model of the relationship between image space and projection space through the system …

[BUCH][B] PET: physics, instrumentation, and scanners

SR Cherry, M Dahlbom, SR Cherry, M Dahlbom - 2006 - Springer
introduced. The methods by which PET data are reconstructed into a three-dimensional
image volume are explained, along with some of the approaches that are used to analyze …

Machine learning in PET: from photon detection to quantitative image reconstruction

K Gong, E Berg, SR Cherry, J Qi - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning has found unique applications in nuclear medicine from photon detection
to quantitative image reconstruction. Although there have been impressive strides in …