PET-MRI: a review of challenges and solutions in the development of integrated multimodality imaging

S Vandenberghe, PK Marsden - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The integration of positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) has been an ongoing research topic for the last 20 years. This paper gives an …

A review of deep-learning-based approaches for attenuation correction in positron emission tomography

JS Lee - IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attenuation correction (AC) is essential for the generation of artifact-free and quantitatively
accurate positron emission tomography (PET) images. PET AC based on computed …

Ea-GANs: edge-aware generative adversarial networks for cross-modality MR image synthesis

B Yu, L Zhou, L Wang, Y Shi, J Fripp… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is a widely used medical imaging protocol that can be
configured to provide different contrasts between the tissues in human body. By setting …

Unsupervised MR-to-CT synthesis using structure-constrained CycleGAN

H Yang, J Sun, A Carass, C Zhao, J Lee… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthesizing a CT image from an available MR image has recently emerged as a key goal
in radiotherapy treatment planning for cancer patients. CycleGANs have achieved promising …

Unpaired brain MR-to-CT synthesis using a structure-constrained CycleGAN

H Yang, J Sun, A Carass, C Zhao, J Lee, Z Xu… - Deep Learning in …, 2018 - Springer
The cycleGAN is becoming an influential method in medical image synthesis. However, due
to a lack of direct constraints between input and synthetic images, the cycleGAN cannot …

Deep learning-based attenuation correction in the absence of structural information for whole-body positron emission tomography imaging

X Dong, Y Lei, T Wang, K Higgins, T Liu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Deriving accurate structural maps for attenuation correction (AC) of whole-body positron
emission tomography (PET) remains challenging. Common problems include truncation …

Synthetic CT generation from non-attenuation corrected PET images for whole-body PET imaging

X Dong, T Wang, Y Lei, K Higgins, T Liu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Attenuation correction (AC) of PET/MRI faces challenges including inter-scan motion, image
artifacts such as truncation and distortion, and erroneous transformation of structural voxel …

A new deep convolutional neural network design with efficient learning capability: Application to CT image synthesis from MRI

A Bahrami, A Karimian, E Fatemizadeh… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Despite the proven utility of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in
radiation therapy, MRI‐guided radiation treatment planning is limited by the fact that MRI …

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 …