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

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stat.AP2026

Voxel-wise Bayesian Estimation for Multi-Population Positronium Lifetime Imaging

Berkin Uluutku, Narendra Rathod, Giulianno Gasparato +4

Positronium lifetime imaging (PLI) provides local annihilation environment data beyond conventional activity imaging. Existing approaches, however, often estimate lifetime paramete…

physics.med-ph2025

Patient-specific AI for generation of 3D dosimetry imaging from two 2D-planar measurements

Alejandro Lopez-Montes, Robert Seifert, Astrid Delker +6

In this work we explored the use of patient specific reinforced learning to generate 3D activity maps from two 2D planar images (anterior and posterior). The solution of this probl…

physics.med-ph2025

First Positronium Lifetime Imaging with Scandium-44 on a Long Axial Field-of-view PET/CT

Lorenzo Mercolli, William M. Steinberger, Pascal V. Grundler +12

Purpose: 44Sc has been successfully produced, synthesized, labeled and first-in-human studies were conducted some years ago. The decay properties of 44Sc, together with being close…

eess.IV2025

Fed-NDIF: A Noise-Embedded Federated Diffusion Model For Low-Count Whole-Body PET Denoising

Yinchi Zhou, Huidong Xie, Menghua Xia +12

Low-count positron emission tomography (LCPET) imaging can reduce patients' exposure to radiation but often suffers from increased image noise and reduced lesion detectability, nec…

cs.CV2025

Developing a PET/CT Foundation Model for Cross-Modal Anatomical and Functional Imaging

Yujin Oh, Robert Seifert, Yihan Cao +15

In oncology, Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography (PET/CT) is widely used in cancer diagnosis, staging, and treatment monitoring, as it combines anatomical details from…

physics.med-ph2025★ 14 cited

Positronium Imaging: History, Current Status, and Future Perspectives

Paweł Moskal, Aleksander Bilewicz, Manish Das +11

Positronium imaging was recently proposed to image the properties of positronium atoms in the patient body. Positronium properties depend on the size of intramolecular voids and ox…

physics.med-ph2025

Semi-Supervised Learning for Dose Prediction in Targeted Radionuclide: A Synthetic Data Study

Jing Zhang, Alexandre Bousse, Chi-Hieu Pham +2

Targeted Radionuclide Therapy (TRT) is a modern strategy in radiation oncology that aims to administer a potent radiation dose specifically to cancer cells using cancer-targeting r…

eess.IV2025

PET Image Denoising via Text-Guided Diffusion: Integrating Anatomical Priors through Text Prompts

Boxiao Yu, Savas Ozdemir, Jiong Wu +4

Low-dose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging presents a significant challenge due to increased noise and reduced image quality, which can compromise its diagnostic accuracy…

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-ph2025★ 2 cited

Positronium Lifetime Imaging with the Biograph Vision Quadra using 124I

Lorenzo Mercolli, William M. Steinberger, Narendra Rathod +7

Purpose: Measuring the ortho-positronium (oPs) lifetime in human tissue bears the potential of adding clinically relevant information about the tissue microenvironment to conventio…

eess.IV2024★ 4 cited

Dose-aware Diffusion Model for 3D PET Image Denoising: Multi-institutional Validation with Reader Study and Real Low-dose Data

Huidong Xie, Weijie Gan, Reimund Bayerlein +24

Reducing scan times, radiation dose, and enhancing image quality for lower-performance scanners, are critical in low-dose PET imaging. Deep learning techniques have been investigat…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

LeqMod: Adaptable Lesion-Quantification-Consistent Modulation for Deep Learning Low-Count PET Image Denoising

Menghua Xia, Huidong Xie, Qiong Liu +9

Deep learning-based positron emission tomography (PET) image denoising offers the potential to reduce radiation exposure and scanning time by transforming low-count images into hig…

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…

eess.IV2023

FedFTN: Personalized Federated Learning with Deep Feature Transformation Network for Multi-institutional Low-count PET Denoising

Bo Zhou, Huidong Xie, Qiong Liu +10

Low-count PET is an efficient way to reduce radiation exposure and acquisition time, but the reconstructed images often suffer from low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), thus affecting…