Quantitative Accuracy Assessment of the NeuroEXPLORER for Diverse Imaging Applications: Moving Beyond Standard Evaluations.
Omidvari N, Shanina E, Leung E, Sun X, Li Y, Mulnix T, Gravel P, Henry S, Matuskey D, Volpi T, Jones T, Badawi R, Li H, Carson R, Qi J, Cherry S. Quantitative Accuracy Assessment of the NeuroEXPLORER for Diverse Imaging Applications: Moving Beyond Standard Evaluations. Journal Of Nuclear Medicine 2024, jnumed.124.268309. PMID: 39638433, DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.124.268309.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchContrast recovery coefficientHoffman phantomUniform phantomIQ phantomRecovery coefficientBrain PET systemHoffman brain phantomBrain uptakeSpatial resolutionDiverse imaging applicationsCylindrical phantomPET systemBrain phantomNeuroimaging studiesImage qualityImaging conditionsPhantomReconstruction parametersImaging time pointsTime pointsImage-derived input functionHigher spatial resolutionQuantitative accuracyDelayed time pointsBrain disordersFast Energy-Based Scatter Correction for 3D TOF-PET on NeuroExplorer
Guo L, Fontaine K, Gravel P, Mulnix T, Zhang J, Liu C, Carson R. Fast Energy-Based Scatter Correction for 3D TOF-PET on NeuroExplorer. 2024, 00: 1-2. DOI: 10.1109/nss/mic/rtsd57108.2024.10657901.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSingle scatter simulationScatter estimationEnergy spectrumTOF binsField of viewAxial field-of-viewHigh-energy scatteringLong axial field-of-viewLow-activity regionsList-mode dataEnergy informationTOF-PETContrast phantomUniform phantomScattering phantomCounting statisticsScatter correctionOSEM reconstructionMultiple-scatteringScatteringScattering simulationsPhantomEvent distributionImproved contrastMonte-Carlo