2024
DIANA - Detectability Investgations using Artificial Nodal Additions
Bayerlein R, Xia M, Xie H, Spencer B, Ouyang J, Fakhri G, Nardo L, Liu C, Badawi R. DIANA - Detectability Investgations using Artificial Nodal Additions. 2024, 00: 1-1. DOI: 10.1109/nss/mic/rtsd57108.2024.10657528.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchContrast recovery coefficientContrast-to-noise ratioLesion-to-background ratioList-mode dataTotal-body PET/CT scannerPositron emission tomographyContrast recoveryOSEM algorithmPatient motionPET/CT scannerArtificial lesionsImage quality metricsLesion detectionQuantitative accuracyPositron emission tomography scanRecovery coefficientCount densityImage contrastBody mass indexImage noisePositron emission tomography imaging techniquesFrame lengthImage smoothingActivity concentrationsAccuracy of lesion detection
2020
Motion correction for PET data using subspace-based real-time MR imaging in simultaneous PET/MR
Marin T, Djebra Y, Han P, Chemli Y, Bloch I, Fakhri G, Ouyang J, Petibon Y, Ma C. Motion correction for PET data using subspace-based real-time MR imaging in simultaneous PET/MR. Physics In Medicine And Biology 2020, 65: 235022. PMID: 33263317, PMCID: PMC7985095, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/abb31d.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPositron emission tomography reconstructionMotion-corrected PET reconstructionsPET reconstructionMotion-corrected PET imagesIrregular respiratory motionMotion fieldMotion correction methodMotion correction approachIrregular motion patternsUndersampled k-space dataImage quality of positron emission tomographyQuality of positron emission tomographyMotion patternsLow-rank characteristicsRespiratory motionContrast-to-noise ratioEstimated motion fieldSurrogate signalsMotion correctionK-space dataImage qualityReal-time MR imagingSimultaneous PET/MRMotion artifact reductionPET/MR scanners
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 artifactsPET Image Deblurring and Super-Resolution With an MR-Based Joint Entropy Prior
Song T, Yang F, Chowdhury S, Kim K, Johnson K, Fakhri G, Li Q, Dutta J. PET Image Deblurring and Super-Resolution With an MR-Based Joint Entropy Prior. IEEE Transactions On Computational Imaging 2019, 5: 530-539. PMID: 31723575, PMCID: PMC6853071, DOI: 10.1109/tci.2019.2913287.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchContrast-to-noise ratioStructural similarity indexHoffman phantomImage deblurringDigital phantomPhantom studyPeak signal-to-noise ratioSuper-resolution frameworkQuantitative accuracySimilarity indexSignal-to-noise ratioSpatial resolutionPhantomImage quantitationSuper-resolutionTau imaging studiesImage qualityPET imagingDeblurringHigh-resolution MR imagingRoot mean square errorSimulation studyBrainWebPost-processingPenalty function
2015
Pulmonary imaging using respiratory motion compensated simultaneous PET/MR
Dutta J, Huang C, Li Q, Fakhri G. Pulmonary imaging using respiratory motion compensated simultaneous PET/MR. Medical Physics 2015, 42: 4227-4240. PMID: 26133621, PMCID: PMC4474958, DOI: 10.1118/1.4921616.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRespiratory motionContrast-to-noise ratioClinical patient studiesPulse sequenceHigh-intensity featuresXCAT studyLow proton densityXCAT simulationPatient studiesXCAT phantomAttenuation mapBiograph mMRComplete data acquisitionSimultaneous PET/MRNonrigid registrationPET/MR scannersPET/magnetic resonanceMagnetic susceptibilityProton densityQuantitative accuracyRelaxation timePulmonary imagingLung lesionsBlurring artifactsDeformation field