2011
Improvement in Lesion Detection with Whole-Body Oncologic Time-of-Flight PET
Fakhri G, Surti S, Trott C, Scheuermann J, Karp J. Improvement in Lesion Detection with Whole-Body Oncologic Time-of-Flight PET. Journal Of Nuclear Medicine 2011, 52: 347-353. PMID: 21321265, PMCID: PMC3088884, DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.110.080382.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTime-of-flight PETTime-of-flightTOF-PETTime-of-flight reconstructionBody mass indexList-mode dataNon-TOF PETObserver signal-to-noise ratioOrdered-subset expectation maximizationMass indexNon-TOFLesion detectionLesion detection performanceSpherical lesionsFunction of body mass indexSignal-to-noise ratioScan timePatient studiesLesion visibilityArtificial lesionsLiver lesionsPatientsLesionsLesion locationLow lesions
2009
Quantitative relationship between coronary calcium content and coronary flow reserve as assessed by integrated PET/CT imaging
Curillova Z, Yaman B, Dorbala S, Kwong R, Sitek A, El Fakhri G, Anagnostopoulos C, Di Carli M. Quantitative relationship between coronary calcium content and coronary flow reserve as assessed by integrated PET/CT imaging. European Journal Of Nuclear Medicine And Molecular Imaging 2009, 36: 1603-1610. PMID: 19387640, PMCID: PMC3117296, DOI: 10.1007/s00259-009-1121-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCoronary artery calcium scoreCoronary artery calciumCoronary vasodilator functionCoronary flow reserveCoronary artery diseaseHyperemic myocardial blood flowMyocardial blood flowVasodilator functionWeak inverse correlationCAC scoreCoronary artery calcium contentFlow reserveIncreasing CAC scorePer-vessel basisPer-patient basisInverse correlationBody mass indexCoronary calcium contentCoronary risk factorsCoronary vascular resistancePET/CT imagingConclusionIn patientsArtery calciumVascular resistanceMass index