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Tau positron emission tomography (PET) is a critical diagnostic modality for Alzheimer's disease (AD) because it visualizes and quantifies neurofibrillary tangles, a hallmark of AD pathology. However, its widespread clinical adoption is…

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Dynamic positron emission tomography (dPET) image reconstruction is extremely challenging due to the limited counts received in individual frame. In this paper, we propose a spatial-temporal convolutional primal dual network (STPDnet) for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Rui Hu , Jianan Cui , Chengjin Yu , Yunmei Chen , Huafeng Liu

Score-based generative models have demonstrated highly promising results for medical image reconstruction tasks in magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography. However, their application to Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is still…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Imraj RD Singh , Alexander Denker , Riccardo Barbano , Željko Kereta , Bangti Jin , Kris Thielemans , Peter Maass , Simon Arridge

Photoluminesce (PL) spectroscopy offers excellent methods for mapping the PL decay on the nanosecond time scale. However, capturing maps of emission dynamics on the microsecond time scale can be highly time-consuming. We present a new…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-24 Jiri Junek , Karel Zidek

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an imaging method that can assess physiological function rather than structural disturbances by measuring cerebral perfusion or glucose consumption. However, this imaging technique relies on injection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Sahar Yousefi , Hessam Sokooti , Wouter M. Teeuwisse , Dennis F. R. Heijtel , Aart J. Nederveen , Marius Staring , Matthias J. P. van Osch

Pulmonary embolisms (PE) are known to be one of the leading causes for cardiac-related mortality. Due to inherent variabilities in how PE manifests and the cumbersome nature of manual diagnosis, there is growing interest in leveraging AI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Deepta Rajan , David Beymer , Shafiqul Abedin , Ehsan Dehghan

FDG-PET reveals altered brain metabolism in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Some biomarkers derived from FDG-PET by computer-aided-diagnosis (CAD) technologies have been proved that they can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Wenju Cui , Caiying Yan , Zhuangzhi Yan , Yunsong Peng , Yilin Leng , Chenlu Liu , Shuangqing Chen , Xi Jiang

The EndoTOFPET-US project aims to jointly exploit Time-Of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography (TOFPET) and ultrasound endoscopy with a multi-modal instrument for the development of new biomarkers for pancreas and prostate oncology. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-03-20 Erika Garutti

In the calculation of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image reconstruction, System Response Matrix (SRM) characterizes the numerical relationship between measurement space and image space. Due to a significant amount of calculation and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 Zhenzhou Deng , Feifan Luo , Anyi Li , Liang Ling , Jiu Xiong , Sikang Xu , Hongsheng Deng , Xin Zhao

Large-area PhotoMultiplier Tubes (PMT) allow to efficiently instrument Liquid Scintillator (LS) neutrino detectors, where large target masses are pivotal to compensate for neutrinos' extremely elusive nature. Depending on the detector light…

Photoemission orbital tomography (POT) from photoelectron momentum maps (PMMs) has enabled detailed analysis of the shape and energy of molecular orbitals in the adsorbed state. This study proposes a new POT method based on the PhaseLift.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-03 Kaori Niki , Rena Asano , Ryuji Sakanoue , Manabu Hagiwara , Kazushi Mimura

We present a method to discover interesting brain regions in [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) scans, showing also the benefits when PET scans are in combined use with non-imaging variables. The discriminative…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-14 Rui Li , Robert Perneczky , Alexander Drzezga , Stefan Kramer

Brain positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is broadly used in research and clinical routines to study, diagnose, and stage Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, its potential cannot be fully exploited yet due to the lack of portable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Eléonore V. Lieffrig , Takuya Toyonaga , Jiazhen Zhang , John A. Onofrey

We report the use of a phase retrieval procedure based on maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) to produce an improved, experimentally calibrated model of a point spread function (PSF) for use in three-dimensional (3D) localization microscopy…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-30 Petar N. Petrov , Yoav Shechtman , W. E. Moerner

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) enables functional imaging of deep brain structures, but the bulk and weight of current systems preclude their use during many natural human activities, such as locomotion. The proposed long-term solution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Junxiang Wang , Ti Wu , Iulian I. Iordachita , Peter Kazanzides

The photon flux resulting from high-energy electron beam interactions with high field systems, such as in the upcoming FACET-II experiments at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, may give deep insight into the electron beam's underlying…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 M. Yadav , M. Oruganti , S. Zhang , B. Naranjo , G. Andonian , Y. Zhuang , Ö. Apsimon , C. P. Welsch , J. B. Rosenzweig

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) enables functional imaging of deep brain structures, but the bulk and weight of current systems preclude their use during many natural human activities, such as locomotion. The proposed long-term solution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Junxiang Wang , Ti Wu , Iulian I. Iordachita , Peter Kazanzides

We present a reconstruction method involving maximum-likelihood expectation maximization (MLEM) to model Poisson noise as applied to fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT). MLEM is initialized with the output from a sparse…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Yansong Zhu , Abhinav K. Jha , Dean F. Wong , Arman Rahmim

Images of the linear polarization of synchrotron radiation around Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) identify their projected magnetic field lines and provide key data for understanding the physics of accretion and outflow from supermassive black…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Andrew A. Chael , Michael D. Johnson , Ramesh Narayan , Sheperd S. Doeleman , John F. C. Wardle , Katherine L. Bouman

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis heavily relies on amyloid-beta positron emission tomography (Abeta-PET), which is limited by high cost and limited accessibility. This study explores whether Abeta-PET spatial patterns can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhengjie Zhang , Xiaoxie Mao , Qihao Guo , Shaoting Zhang , Qi Huang , Mu Zhou , Fang Xie , Mianxin Liu