2022
Quantification of intramyocardial blood volume using 99mTc-RBC SPECT/CT: a pilot human study
Yousefi H, Shi L, Soufer A, Tsatkin V, Bruni W, Avendano R, Greco K, McMahon D, Thorn S, Miller E, Sinusas A, Liu C. Quantification of intramyocardial blood volume using 99mTc-RBC SPECT/CT: a pilot human study. Journal Of Nuclear Cardiology 2022, 30: 292-297. PMID: 36319815, DOI: 10.1007/s12350-022-03123-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAnimalsBlood VolumeErythrocytesHumansMicrocirculationPilot ProjectsSingle Photon Emission Computed Tomography Computed TomographyTomography, Emission-Computed, Single-PhotonCross-vender, cross-tracer, and cross-protocol deep transfer learning for attenuation map generation of cardiac SPECT
Chen X, Pretorius P, Zhou B, Liu H, Johnson K, Liu YH, King MA, Liu C. Cross-vender, cross-tracer, and cross-protocol deep transfer learning for attenuation map generation of cardiac SPECT. Journal Of Nuclear Cardiology 2022, 29: 3379-3391. PMID: 35474443, PMCID: PMC11407548, DOI: 10.1007/s12350-022-02978-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHumansMachine LearningRadiopharmaceuticalsSingle Photon Emission Computed Tomography Computed TomographyTechnetium Tc 99m SestamibiTomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
2021
CT-free attenuation correction for dedicated cardiac SPECT using a 3D dual squeeze-and-excitation residual dense network
Chen X, Zhou B, Shi L, Liu H, Pang Y, Wang R, Miller EJ, Sinusas AJ, Liu C. CT-free attenuation correction for dedicated cardiac SPECT using a 3D dual squeeze-and-excitation residual dense network. Journal Of Nuclear Cardiology 2021, 29: 2235-2250. PMID: 34085168, DOI: 10.1007/s12350-021-02672-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedSingle Photon Emission Computed Tomography Computed TomographyTomography, Emission-Computed, Single-PhotonTomography, X-Ray Computed
2017
Quantification of intramyocardial blood volume with 99mTc-RBC SPECT-CT imaging: A preclinical study
Mohy-Ud-Din H, Boutagy NE, Stendahl JC, Zhuang ZW, Sinusas AJ, Liu C. Quantification of intramyocardial blood volume with 99mTc-RBC SPECT-CT imaging: A preclinical study. Journal Of Nuclear Cardiology 2017, 25: 2096-2111. PMID: 28695406, PMCID: PMC5985225, DOI: 10.1007/s12350-017-0970-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAnimalsBlood VolumeCoronary CirculationDogsErythrocytesFemaleHemodynamicsMicrocirculationSingle Photon Emission Computed Tomography Computed TomographyTechnetiumX-Ray MicrotomographyFully automatic multi-atlas segmentation of CTA for partial volume correction in cardiac SPECT/CT
Liu Q, Mohy-ud-Din H, Boutagy N, Jiang M, Ren S, Stendahl J, Sinusas A, Liu C. Fully automatic multi-atlas segmentation of CTA for partial volume correction in cardiac SPECT/CT. Physics In Medicine And Biology 2017, 62: 3944-3957. PMID: 28266929, PMCID: PMC5568763, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aa6520.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAlgorithmsAngiographyAnimalsAutomationBlood VolumeDogsHeartHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedSingle Photon Emission Computed Tomography Computed TomographyConceptsMulti-atlas segmentation methodLabel fusion methodMulti-atlas segmentationSegmentation methodConventional label fusion methodsFusion methodManual segmentationMultiple organ segmentationLabel fusion algorithmImage qualityCardiac SPECT imagesDice similarity coefficientOrgan segmentationSegmentation accuracyAutomatic segmentationCTA segmentationFusion algorithmComputed tomography angiography dataSegmentationOne-out approachCT datasetsTomography angiography dataSimilarity coefficientAngiography dataConsistent image quality
2016
Noise suppressed partial volume correction for cardiac SPECT/CT
Chan C, Liu H, Grobshtein Y, Stacy MR, Sinusas AJ, Liu C. Noise suppressed partial volume correction for cardiac SPECT/CT. Medical Physics 2016, 43: 5225-5239. PMID: 27587054, PMCID: PMC5001975, DOI: 10.1118/1.4961391.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAlgorithmsAnimalsDogsHeartImage Processing, Computer-AssistedPhantoms, ImagingRadiation DosageSignal-To-Noise RatioSingle Photon Emission Computed Tomography Computed Tomography