A review of partial volume correction techniques for emission tomography and their applications in neurology, cardiology and oncology

K Erlandsson, I Buvat, PH Pretorius… - Physics in Medicine …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate quantification in PET and SPECT requires correction for a number of physical
factors, such as photon attenuation, Compton scattering and random coincidences (in PET) …

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 …

NEMA NU 2‐2012 performance studies for the SiPM‐based ToF‐PET component of the GE SIGNA PET/MR system

AM Grant, TW Deller, MM Khalighi… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The GE SIGNA PET/MR is a new whole body integrated time‐of‐flight (ToF)‐
PET/MR scanner from GE Healthcare. The system is capable of simultaneous PET and MR …

Dynamic I maging of I ndividual R emyelination P rofiles in M ultiple S clerosis

B Bodini, M Veronese, D García‐Lorenzo… - Annals of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background Quantitative in vivo imaging of myelin loss and repair in patients with multiple
sclerosis (MS) is essential to understand the pathogenesis of the disease and to evaluate …

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 …

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 …

Design features and mutual compatibility studies of the time-of-flight PET capable GE SIGNA PET/MR system

CS Levin, SH Maramraju, MM Khalighi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A recent entry into the rapidly evolving field of integrated PET/MR scanners is presented in
this paper: a whole body hybrid PET/MR system (SIGNA PET/MR, GE Healthcare) capable …

Performance evaluation of the 5‐Ring GE Discovery MI PET/CT system using the national electrical manufacturers association NU 2‐2012 Standard

T Pan, SA Einstein, SC Kappadath, KS Grogg… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The GE Discovery MI PET/CT system has a modular digital detector design allowing three,
four, or five detector block rings that extend the axial field‐of‐view (FOV) from 15 to 25 cm in …

Improvement in PET/CT image quality with a combination of point-spread function and time-of-flight in relation to reconstruction parameters

G Akamatsu, K Ishikawa, K Mitsumoto… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2012 - Soc Nuclear Med
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the point-spread function (PSF) and
time-of-flight (TOF) on improving 18F-FDG PET/CT images in relation to reconstruction …

Quantitative comparison of OSEM and penalized likelihood image reconstruction using relative difference penalties for clinical PET

S Ahn, SG Ross, E Asma, J Miao, X **… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Ordered subset expectation maximization (OSEM) is the most widely used algorithm for
clinical PET image reconstruction. OSEM is usually stopped early and post-filtered to control …