2023
Attenuation correction for PET imaging using conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic model
Dong Y, Jang S, Han P, Johnson K, Ma C, Fakhri G, Li Q, Gong K. Attenuation correction for PET imaging using conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic model. 2023, 00: 1-1. DOI: 10.1109/nssmicrtsd49126.2023.10338188.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDiffusion probabilistic modelGenerative adversarial networkConditional encodingAttenuation correctionDenoising diffusion probabilistic modelLow-level featuresProbabilistic modelAttenuation coefficientAdversarial networkExtract featuresPET/MR systemsEncodingPET acquisitionNovel methodDiffusion encodingMagnetic resonanceImagesPET imagingCorrectionMR imagingUNetAttenuationNetworkFeaturesResonance
2019
Free-Breathing Three-Dimensional T1 Mapping of the Heart Using Subspace-Based Data Acquisition and Image Reconstruction
Han P, Horng D, Marin T, Petibon Y, Ouyang J, Fakhri G, Ma C. Free-Breathing Three-Dimensional T1 Mapping of the Heart Using Subspace-Based Data Acquisition and Image Reconstruction. Annual International Conference Of The IEEE Engineering In Medicine And Biology Society (EMBC) 2019, 00: 4008-4011. PMID: 31946750, DOI: 10.1109/embc.2019.8856511.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRespiratory motionRespiratory gatingLongitudinal relaxation timeSubspace-based methodsLow-rank tensorMagnetic resonance imagingRelaxation timeT1 mappingT)-spaceSubspace-basedSparsity constraintDynamic MR imagingReconstructed mapsSpatiotemporal correlationThree-dimensionalCardiac MRHealthy subjectsIn vivo dataMagnetizationResonance imagingImage functionMR imagingData acquisitionClinical applicationTensor
2018
SERIAL transmit – parallel receive (STxPRx) MR imaging produces acceptable proton image uniformity without compromising field of view or SAR guidelines for human neuroimaging at 9.4 Tesla
Thulborn K, Ma C, Sun C, Atkinson I, Claiborne T, Umathum R, Wright S, Liang Z. SERIAL transmit – parallel receive (STxPRx) MR imaging produces acceptable proton image uniformity without compromising field of view or SAR guidelines for human neuroimaging at 9.4 Tesla. Journal Of Magnetic Resonance 2018, 293: 145-153. PMID: 30012280, PMCID: PMC6084804, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2018.05.009.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsProton MR imagesMR images of human brainArrays of surface coilsImages of human brainSurface coil arrayHuman brain imagingImage uniformityField of viewExcitation profilesSAR guidelinesBirdcage coilFLASH pulse sequenceSensitivity correctionSodium MR imagingPulse sequenceAcceptable uniformityCoil arrayExcitationSignal-to-noiseProtonHigh-resolution imagesSurface coilParallel receiverCoilMR imaging