医学物理
Current mainstream of CT reconstruction methods based on deep learning usually needs to fix the scanning geometry and dose level, which will significantly aggravate the training cost and need more training data for clinical application. In…
MRI offers outstanding soft tissue contrast that may reduce uncertainties in target and organ-at-risk delineation and enable online adaptive image-guided treatment. Spatial distortions resulting from non-linearities in the gradient fields…
An implementation of the remote pulse monitoring system which allows observing of the patient's pulse in a real-time mode via browser is offered in this work. The result of the work is the development of the complex system, which contains…
In a standard computed tomography (CT) image, pixels having the same Hounsfield Units (HU) can correspond to different materials and it is therefore challenging to differentiate and quantify materials. Dual-energy CT (DECT) is desirable to…
Purpose: Automatic planning for focal low-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy (LDR-PB) boost. Methods: A simulated annealing approach was utilized for creating automatic focal LDR-PB boost plans using both geometric (i.e. adherence of isodose…
In recent years, the possibility of direct production of the 99mTc isotope (bypassing the parent 99Mo stage) for medical purposes using nuclear reactions on charged particle beams has been actively discussed around the world [1,2]. At A.I.…
Cardiac 18F-FDG PET has been used in clinics to assess myocardial glucose metabolism. Its ability for imaging myocardial glucose transport, however, has rarely been exploited in clinics. Using the dynamic FDG-PET scans of ten patients with…
Radiotherapy is sensitive to executional and preparational uncertainties that propagate to uncertainty in dose and plan quality indicators like dose-volume histograms (DVHs). Current approaches to quantify and mitigate such uncertainties…
This paper presents a dictionary learning-based method with region-specific image patches to maximize the utility of the powerful sparse data processing technique for CT image reconstruction. Considering heterogeneous distributions of image…
We introduce a new method, (Doppler Velocity Reconstruction or DoVeR), for reconstructing two-component velocity fields from color Doppler scans. DoVeR employs the streamfunction-vorticity equation, which satisfies mass conservation while…
Acoustic-resolution optoacoustic microscopy (AR-OAM) retrieves anatomical and functional contrast from living tissues at depths not reachable with optical microscopy. The imaging performance of AR-OAM has been advanced with image…
Wall shear stress (WSS) has been suggested as a potential biomarker in various cardiovascular diseases and it can be estimated from phase-contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (PC-MRI) velocity measurements. We present a new parametric…
Multi-contrast images are commonly acquired together to maximize complementary diagnostic information, albeit at the expense of longer scan times. A time-efficient strategy to acquire high-quality multi-contrast images is to accelerate…
The highest three-dimensional (3D) resolution possible in in-vivo retinal imaging is achieved by combining optical coherence tomography (OCT) and adaptive optics (AO). However, this combination brings important limitations, such as small…
Allying high-resolution with a large field-of-view (FOV) is of great importance in the fields of biology and medicine, but particularly challenging when imaging non-flat living samples such as the human retina. Indeed, high-resolution is…
Manifold learning using deep neural networks been shown to be an effective tool for building sophisticated prior image models that can be applied to noise reduction in low-dose CT. We propose a new iterative CT reconstruction algorithm,…
Diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) has recently seen a rising interest in planar, spherical and general B-tensor encodings. Some of these sequences have aided traditional linear encoding in the estimation of white matter microstructural…
Conductive hearing loss, due to middle ear pathologies or traumas, affects more than 5% of the population worldwide. Passive prostheses to replace the ossicular chain mainly rely on piston-like titanium and/or hydroxyapatite devices, which…
Additive manufacturing (AM) techniques have gained interest in the tissue engineering field thanks to their versatility and unique possibilities of producing constructs with complex macroscopic geometries and defined patterns. Recently,…
Spectral CT has great potential for a variety of clinical applications due to the improved material discrimination with respect to conventional CT. Many clinical and preclinical spectral CT systems have two spectral channels for dual-energy…