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Precise alignment of the electron beam is critical for successful application of scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM) to understanding materials at atomic level. Despite the success of aberration correctors, aberration…

Low-dose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from severe noise and quantitative degradation. Diffusion-based denoising models achieve strong final reconstructions, yet their reverse trajectories are…

Uncompressed clinical data from modern positron emission tomography (PET) scanners are very large, exceeding 350 million data points (projection bins). The last decades have seen tremendous advancements in mathematical imaging tools many of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Pawel Markiewicz , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Low-count positron emission tomography (PET) reconstruction is a challenging inverse problem due to severe degradations arising from Poisson noise, photon scarcity, and attenuation correction errors. Existing deep learning methods typically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Zheng Zhang , Hao Tang , Yingying Hu , Zhanli Hu , Jing Qin

Attenuation and scatter correction (AC) is crucial for quantitative Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging. Recently, direct application of AC in the image domain using deep learning approaches has been proposed for the hybrid PET/MR…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 Reza Jahangir , Alireza Kamali-Asl , Hossein Arabi

Positronium Imaging requires two classes of events: double-coincidences originated from pair of back-to-back annihilation photons and triple-coincidences comprised with two annihilation photons and one additional prompt photon. The standard…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Lech Raczynski , Wojciech Krzemien , Konrad Klimaszewski

Time-Of-Flight (TOF) is a noble technique that is used in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging worldwide. The scintillator based imaging system that is being used around the world for TOF-PET is very expensive. Multi-gap Resistive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-02 Rajesh Ganai , Shaifali Mehta , Mehulkumar Shiroya , Mitali Mondal , Zubayer Ahammed , Subhasis Chattopadhyay

Attenuation correction (AC) is essential for the generation of artifact-free and quantitatively accurate positron emission tomography (PET) images. However, AC of PET faces challenges including inter-scan motion and erroneous transformation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Yu Guan , Bohui Shen , Xinchong Shi , Xiangsong Zhang , Bingxuan Li , Qiegen Liu

We develop a positronium imaging method for the Jagiellonian PET (J-PET) scanners based on the time-of-flight maximum likelihood expectation maximisation (TOF MLEM). The system matrix elements are calculated on-the-fly for the coincidences…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-19 Roman Y. Shopa , Kamil Dulski

In positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, statistical iterative reconstruction (IR) techniques appear particularly promising since they can provide accurate system model. The system model matrix which describes the relationship between…

Current methods for magnetic resonance-based positron emission tomography attenuation correction (PET-MR AC) are time consuming, and less able than computed tomography (CT)-based AC methods to capture inter-individual variability and skull…

The total electron content (TEC) maps can be used to estimate the signal delay of GPS due to the ionospheric electron content between a receiver and satellite. This delay can result in GPS positioning error. Thus it is important to monitor…

Applications · Statistics 2022-01-14 Hu Sun , Zhijun Hua , Jiaen Ren , Shasha Zou , Yuekai Sun , Yang Chen

Treatment planning in ion beam therapy requires accurate knowledge of the relative stopping power (RSP) distribution within the patient. Currently, RSP maps are obtained via conventional x-ray computed tomography (CT) by converting the…

Tomography can be used to reveal internal properties of a 3D object using any penetrating wave. Advanced tomographic imaging techniques, however, are vulnerable to both systematic and random errors associated with the experimental…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Anthony P. Austin , Zichao Wendy Di , Sven Leyffer , Stefan M. Wild

For dose calculations in ion beam therapy, it is vital to accurately determine the relative stopping power (RSP) distribution within the treated volume. Currently, RSP values are extrapolated from Hounsfield units (HU), measured with x-ray…

Aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) has become an essential tool in understanding materials at the atomic scale. However, tuning the aberration corrector to produce a sub-{\AA}ngstr\"om probe is a complex…

We present the first fully two-dimensional attenuation imaging technique developed for pulse-echo ultrasound systems. Unlike state-of-the-art techniques, which use line-by-line acquisitions, our method uses steered emissions to constrain…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Naiara Korta Martiartu , Parisa Salemi Yolgunlu , Martin Frenz , Michael Jaeger

Positron emission tomography (PET) scans expose patients to radiation, which can be mitigated by reducing the dose, albeit at the cost of diminished quality. This makes low-dose (LD) PET recovery an active research area. Previous studies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Ghulam Nabi Ahmad Hassan Yar , Himashi Peiris , Victoria Mar , Cameron Dennis Pain , Zhaolin Chen

Improving the quality of positron emission tomography (PET) images, affected by low resolution and high level of noise, is a challenging task in nuclear medicine and radiotherapy. This work proposes a restoration method, achieved after…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Stéphanie Guérit , Laurent Jacques , Benoît Macq , John A. Lee

The modern imaging techniques of Positron Emission Tomography and of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography are not only two of the most important tools for studying the functional characteristics of the brain, but they now also play a…

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