2012
MRI-Based Nonrigid Motion Correction in Simultaneous PET/MRI
Chun Y, Reese T, Ouyang J, Guerin B, Catana C, Zhu X, Alpert N, Fakhri G. MRI-Based Nonrigid Motion Correction in Simultaneous PET/MRI. Journal Of Nuclear Medicine 2012, 53: 1284-1291. PMID: 22743250, PMCID: PMC4077320, DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.111.092353.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChannelized Hotelling observerMotion correctionDetection signal-to-noise ratioSignal-to-noise ratioMRI-based motion correctionRespiratory motion correctionMotion-corrected reconstructionOrdered-subsets expectation maximization algorithmNonrigid motion correctionChannelized Hotelling observer studyPET image qualityNonrigid image registration methodCoincidence dataDeformable phantomRespiratory gatingReduce radiation doseDynamic phantomImage registration methodReduced signal-to-noise ratioSimultaneous PET/MRICost of increased noiseHotelling observerPhantomAttenuation measurementsRabbit studies
2002
Impact of Acquisition Geometry and Patient Habitus on Lesion Detectability in Whole-Body FDG-PET: A Channelized Hotelling Observer Study
Fakhri G, Holdsworth C, Badawi R, Santos P, Moore S, Van den Abbeele A, Kijewski M. Impact of Acquisition Geometry and Patient Habitus on Lesion Detectability in Whole-Body FDG-PET: A Channelized Hotelling Observer Study. 2002, 3: 1402-1405. DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2002.1239583.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchBed positionChannelized Hotelling observer studyFDG-PET studiesAttenuation mapAcquisition modeMarginal detectionFDG-PETLesion detectionWhole-body FDG-PETHotelling observerScaling 2DTypical sizePatient sizeHours post-injectionPatient habitusAnatomical backgroundWhole bodyLesion sizeObservational studyPatientsLesionsLesion siteModePost-injectionAcquisition geometry