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To acquire high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) images while reducing the radiation tracer dose, numerous efforts have been devoted to reconstructing standard-dose PET (SPET) images from low-dose PET (LPET). However, the success…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Jiaqi Cui , Pinxian Zeng , Yuanyuan Xu , Xi Wu , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang

Purpose: The scattering phenomenon creates degrading effects in positron emission tomography (PET) and the corresponding events are rejected conventionally. We have proposed a mathematical model to retrace the original line of response of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Satyajit Ghosh , Pragya Das

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a Nuclear Medicine technique that creates images that allow the study of metabolic activity and organ function using radiopharmaceuticals. Continuous improvement of scintillation detectors for radiation…

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a widely used, highly sensitive molecular imaging in clinical diagnosis. There is interest in reducing the radiation exposure from PET but also maintaining adequate image quality. Recent methods using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Yuxin Xue , Lei Bi , Yige Peng , Michael Fulham , David Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an imaging technique which can be used to investigate chemical changes in human biological processes such as cancer development or neurochemical reactions. Most dynamic PET scans are currently analyzed…

Applications · Statistics 2014-11-11 Ci-Ren Jiang , John A D Aston , Jane-Ling Wang

Standard dual-energy computed tomography (CT) uses two different X-ray energies to obtain energy-dependent tissue attenuation information to allow quantitative material decomposition. The combined use of dual-energy CT and positron emission…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Guobao Wang

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a critical tool for diagnosing tumors and neurological disorders but poses radiation risks to patients, particularly to sensitive populations. While reducing injected radiation dose mitigates this risk,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Yucun Hou , Fenglin Zhan , Xin Cheng , Chenxi Li , Ziquan Yuan , Runze Liao , Haihao Wang , Jianlang Hua , Jing Wu , Jianyong Jiang

The present paper proposes a novel computational method for parametric imaging of nuclear medicine data. The mathematical procedure is general enough to work for compartmental models of diverse complexity and is effective in the…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-15 Mara Scussolini , Sara Garbarino , Gianmario Sambuceti , Giacomo Caviglia , Michele Piana

In this study, we explore the use of Co-55 as a radioisotope for multiplexed PET (mPET) by utilizing its emission of a prompt gamma-ray in cascade with a positron during decay. We leverage the prompt-gamma signal to generate triple…

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging requires accurate attenuation correction (AC) to account for photon loss due to tissue density variations. In PET/MR systems, computed tomography (CT), which offers a straightforward estimation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Weijie Chen , James Wang , Alan McMillan

Recent work has shown improved lesion detectability and flexibility to reconstruction hyperparameters (e.g. scanner geometry or dose level) when PET images are reconstructed by leveraging pre-trained diffusion models. Such methods train a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P. King , Andrew J. Reader

Images from positron emission tomography (PET) provide metabolic information about the human body. They present, however, a spatial resolution that is limited by physical and instrumental factors often modeled by a blurring function. Since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Stéphanie Guérit , Adriana González , Anne Bol , John A. Lee , Laurent Jacques

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has shown great potential and promising applications in advanced imaging fields for its capabilities of material decomposition. However, image reconstructions and decompositions under sparse views…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-08-01 Lei Li , Ailong Cai , Linyuan Wang , Bin Yan , Hanming Zhang , Zhizhong Zheng , Wenkun Zhang , Wanli Lu , Guoen Hu

Scattered coincidences introduce quantitative bias in positron emission tomography (PET) and must be compensated during reconstruction. Conventional scatter estimates typically rely on simplified cylindrical scanner models that omit…

In positron emission tomography acquisition (PET), sensitivity along a line of response can vary due to crystal geometrical arrangements in the scanner and/or detector inefficiencies, leading to severe artefacts in the reconstructed image.…

This paper presents a novel image reconstruction pipeline for three-gamma (3-{\gamma}) positron emission tomography (PET) aimed at improving spatial resolution and reducing noise in nuclear medicine; the proposed Direct3{\gamma} pipeline…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Youness Mellak , Alexandre Bousse , Thibaut Merlin , Debora Giovagnoli , Dimitris Visvikis

In this paper, we provide a novel method for the estimation of unknown parameters of the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) in Positron Emission Tomography (PET). A vast majority of PET imaging methods are based on reconstruction model that is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Tomislav Matulić , Damir Seršić

To obtain high-quality Positron emission tomography (PET) images while minimizing radiation exposure, numerous methods have been proposed to reconstruct standard-dose PET (SPET) images from the corresponding low-dose PET (LPET) images.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Jiaqi Cui , Yan Wang , Lu Wen , Pinxian Zeng , Xi Wu , Jiliu Zhou , Dinggang Shen

Positron emission tomography (PET) is an important modality for diagnosing diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's disease, capable of revealing the uptake of radiolabeled molecules that target specific pathological markers of the diseases.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Hsin-Hsiung Huang , Zheyuan Zhu , Slun Booppasiri , Zhuo Chen , Shuo Pang , Chien-Min Kao