2019
MR-based cardiac and respiratory motion correction of PET: application to static and dynamic cardiac 18F-FDG imaging
Petibon Y, Sun T, Han P, Ma C, Fakhri G, Ouyang J. MR-based cardiac and respiratory motion correction of PET: application to static and dynamic cardiac 18F-FDG imaging. Physics In Medicine And Biology 2019, 64: 195009. PMID: 31394518, PMCID: PMC7007962, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab39c2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMR-based motion correctionRespiratory motion correctionMotion correctionImproved spatial resolutionReconstructed activity concentrationCardiac PET dataSpatial resolutionCoincidence eventsMR-basedPET imagingContrast-to-noise ratioCardiac PET imagingRespiratory phasesMC dataImprove image qualityMR acquisitionQuantitative accuracyCardiac PETPET dataActivity concentrationsMyocardium wallF-FDG PETDynamics studiesImage qualityMotion artifacts
2015
A Spectral Graph Regression Model for Learning Brain Connectivity of Alzheimer’s Disease
Hu C, Cheng L, Sepulcre J, Johnson K, Fakhri G, Lu Y, Li Q. A Spectral Graph Regression Model for Learning Brain Connectivity of Alzheimer’s Disease. PLOS ONE 2015, 10: e0128136. PMID: 26024224, PMCID: PMC4449104, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128136.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNetwork featuresAlzheimer's diseaseConsistent with known pathologyUnknown graphConnection weightsReconstruction networkCortical hubsDegree statisticsData modelSmooth signalsFeatures of brain pathologyOptimization frameworkAmyloid-bPartial correlation estimationImage dataNetworkGraphGlobal connectivity measuresPositron emission tomographyConnectivity measuresNeurodegenerative diseasesConnectivity patternsSample correlationClinical ADSimulated data