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physics.med-ph2025★ 2 cited

GATE 10 Monte Carlo particle transport simulation -- Part I: development and new features

David Sarrut, Nicolas Arbor, Thomas Baudier +30

We present GATE version 10, a major evolution of the open-source Monte Carlo simulation application for medical physics, built on Geant4. This release marks a transformative evolut…

physics.med-ph2025★ 1 cited

Joint Reconstruction of Activity and Attenuation in PET by Diffusion Posterior Sampling in Wavelet Coefficient Space

Clémentine Phung-Ngoc, Alexandre Bousse, Antoine De Paepe +6

Attenuation correction (AC) is necessary for accurate activity quantification in positron emission tomography (PET). Conventional reconstruction methods typically rely on attenuati…

physics.med-ph2025★ 3 cited

Machine Learning-Based Modeling of the Anode Heel Effect in X-ray Beam Monte Carlo Simulations

Hussein Harb, Didier Benoit, Axel Rannou +4

To develop a machine learning-based framework for accurately modeling the anode heel effect in Monte Carlo simulations of X-ray imaging systems, enabling realistic beam intensity p…

physics.med-ph2025

Material Decomposition in Photon-Counting Computed Tomography with Diffusion Models: Comparative Study and Hybridization with Variational Regularizers

Corentin Vazia, Thore Dassow, Alexandre Bousse +6

Photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) has emerged as a promising imaging technique, enabling spectral imaging and material decomposition (MD). However, images typically suffer…

physics.med-ph2025★ 2 cited

Dual-Input Dynamic Convolution for Positron Range Correction in PET Image Reconstruction

Youness Mellak, Alexandre Bousse, Thibaut Merlin +3

Positron range (PR) blurring degrades positron emission tomography (PET) image resolution, particularly for high-energy emitters like gallium-68 (68 Ga). We introduce Dual-Input Dy…

physics.med-ph2025★ 6 cited

Evaluation of Deep Learning-based Scatter Correction on a Long-axial Field-of-view PET scanner

Baptiste Laurent, Alexandre Bousse, Thibaut Merlin +3

Objective: Long-axial field-of-view (LAFOV) positron emission tomography (PET) systems allow higher sensitivity, with an increased number of detected lines of response induced by a…

physics.med-ph2024★ 2 cited

Synergistic PET/CT Reconstruction Using a Joint Generative Model

Noel Jeffrey Pinton, Alexandre Bousse, Zhihan Wang +5

We propose in this work a framework for synergistic positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) reconstruction using a joint generative model as a penalty. We use a…

physics.med-ph2024

CConnect: Synergistic Convolutional Regularization for Cartesian T2* Mapping

Juan Molina, Alexandre Bousse, Tabita Catalán +5

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is fundamental for the assessment of many diseases, due to its excellent tissue contrast characterization. This is based on quantitative techniques…

physics.med-ph2024★ 38 cited

A Review on Low-Dose Emission Tomography Post-Reconstruction Denoising with Neural Network Approaches

Alexandre Bousse, Venkata Sai Sundar Kandarpa, Kuangyu Shi +4

Low-dose emission tomography (ET) plays a crucial role in medical imaging, enabling the acquisition of functional information for various biological processes while minimizing the…

physics.med-ph2023★ 5 cited

Uconnect: Synergistic Spectral CT Reconstruction with U-Nets Connecting the Energy bins

Zhihan Wang, Alexandre Bousse, Franck Vermet +5

Spectral computed tomography (CT) offers the possibility to reconstruct attenuation images at different energy levels, which can be then used for material decomposition. However, t…

physics.med-ph2019★ 167 cited

Next Generation Radiogenomics Sequencing for Prediction of EGFR and KRAS Mutation Status in NSCLC Patients Using Multimodal Imaging and Machine Learning Approaches

Isaac Shiri, Hassan Maleki, Ghasem Hajianfar +5

Aim: In the present work, we aimed to evaluate a comprehensive radiomics framework that enabled prediction of EGFR and KRAS mutation status in NSCLC cancer patients based on PET an…

physics.med-ph2004★ 2.2k cited

GATE : a simulation toolkit for PET and SPECT

S. Jan, G. Santin, D. Strul +50

Monte Carlo simulation is an essential tool in emission tomography that can assist in the design of new medical imaging devices, the optimization of acquisition protocols, and the…