2020
Positron annihilation localization by nanoscale magnetization
Gholami Y, Yuan H, Wilks M, Josephson L, El Fakhri G, Normandin M, Kuncic Z. Positron annihilation localization by nanoscale magnetization. Scientific Reports 2020, 10: 20262. PMID: 33219274, PMCID: PMC7680104, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76980-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNanoscale magnetsSpatial resolution of PET imagesImproved dose localizationPositron emitting sourcesResolution of PET imagesPositron emission tomography instrumentationSpatial resolutionPositron emission tomographyAnnihilation quantaPhoton pairsPositron rangeDose localizationPositron annihilationCharged particlesOrtho-positroniumAnnihilationSuperparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticlesCancer theranostic strategyPositron emission tomography scanPositronElectronic placesImage blurringPET imagingPET-MRITreatment outcomes
2011
Nonrigid PET motion compensation in the lower abdomen using simultaneous tagged‐MRI and PET imaging
Guérin B, Cho S, Chun S, Zhu X, Alpert N, Fakhri G, Reese T, Catana C. Nonrigid PET motion compensation in the lower abdomen using simultaneous tagged‐MRI and PET imaging. Medical Physics 2011, 38: 3025-3038. PMID: 21815376, PMCID: PMC3125080, DOI: 10.1118/1.3589136.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPET-MRI acquisitionsMotion correctionPET motion compensationPET motion correctionRespiratory motion correctionMotion-corrected reconstructionMotion correction strategiesWhole-body PET studiesSignal-to-noise ratioPET reconstruction algorithmDeformable phantomNCAT phantomEffects of motionAttenuation mapDetected coincidencesPET-MRIGated framesBrain scannerSimulations of tumorsSignal-to-noisePhantomSusceptibility artifactsReconstruction algorithmPhase domainsNonrigid deformation