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 detectionSubject-aware PET Denoising with Contrastive Adversarial Domain Generalization
Liu X, Marin T, Eslahi S, Tiss A, Chemli Y, Johson K, Fakhri G, Ouyang J. Subject-aware PET Denoising with Contrastive Adversarial Domain Generalization. 2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record 2024, 00: 1-1. PMID: 39445307, PMCID: PMC11497478, DOI: 10.1109/nss/mic/rtsd57108.2024.10656150.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDomain generalizationDenoising performanceDenoising moduleDeep learningSubject-independent mannerSubject-invariant featuresSuperior denoising performanceAdversarial learning frameworkSubject-related informationConventional UNetBottleneck featuresTrustworthy systemsLearning frameworkDL modelsDL model performanceDenoisingNoise realizationsNegative samplesList-mode dataImage volumesModel performancePerformancePerformance of positron emission tomographyUNetFraction of events
2023
Impact of motion correction on [18F]-MK6240 tau PET imaging
Tiss A, Marin T, Chemli Y, Spangler-Bickell M, Gong K, Lois C, Petibon Y, Landes V, Grogg K, Normandin M, Becker A, Thibault E, Johnson K, Fakhri G, Ouyang J. Impact of motion correction on [18F]-MK6240 tau PET imaging. Physics In Medicine And Biology 2023, 68: 105015. PMID: 37116511, PMCID: PMC10278956, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/acd161.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMotion correctionPET quantitationImpact of motion correctionList-mode reconstructionMotion correction methodList-mode dataMotion-corrected imagesEffect of motion correctionVoxel displacementsPhantom experimentsOptical tracking dataLong acquisitionBrain PET scansSlow motionImage qualityPET imagingPositron emission tomographyCorrectionMotionCorrection methodRates of tau accumulationHead motionMotion metricsPhantomPositron
2019
Body motion detection and correction in cardiac PET: Phantom and human studies
Sun T, Petibon Y, Han P, Ma C, Kim S, Alpert N, Fakhri G, Ouyang J. Body motion detection and correction in cardiac PET: Phantom and human studies. Medical Physics 2019, 46: 4898-4906. PMID: 31508827, PMCID: PMC6842053, DOI: 10.1002/mp.13815.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsList-mode dataMotion-compensated image reconstructionMotion correctionCenter of massPET list-mode dataMotion correction methodMotion detectionMotion estimationImage reconstructionPatient body motionDegrade image qualityNonrigid registrationImage qualityMotion transformationCoincident distributionBody motion detectionCardiac positron emission tomographyBack-projection techniqueCovariance matrixImage volumesBody motionPositron emission tomographyBack-projectionReference framePhantomBulk motion detection and correction using list-mode data for cardiac PET imaging
Sun T, Petibon Y, Han P, Ma C, Kim S, Alpert N, Fakhri G, Ouyang J. Bulk motion detection and correction using list-mode data for cardiac PET imaging. Proceedings Of SPIE--the International Society For Optical Engineering 2019, 11072: 110722f-110722f-5. DOI: 10.1117/12.2534701.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchList-mode dataCardiac PET imagingPET list-mode dataMotion-corrected imagesLines of responsePET imaging applicationsCardiac PETImage qualityBulk motionCardiac PET studiesMotion correctionPET imagingBrain PETMotion estimationData-driven approachMotion detectionImaging applicationsImage spaceMoving frameStatic reference frameMotion transformationCorrectionCenter positionMotionReference frame
2017
Direct parametric reconstruction in dynamic PET myocardial perfusion imaging: in vivo studies
Petibon Y, Rakvongthai Y, Fakhri G, Ouyang J. Direct parametric reconstruction in dynamic PET myocardial perfusion imaging: in vivo studies. Physics In Medicine And Biology 2017, 62: 3539-3565. PMID: 28379843, PMCID: PMC5739089, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aa6394.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPET sinogramsSignal-to-noise ratioList-mode PET dataSiemens Biograph mMR scannerList-mode dataMyocardial perfusion imagingNoise realizationsPET myocardial perfusion imagingLow count levelsLeast-squares fitBiograph mMR scannerPET projection dataOriginal list-mode dataMyocardial blood flowCount levelsParametric reconstructionOSEMReconstruction methodIndependent noise realizationsNormal count levelsSinogramDirect reconstructionDynamic sinogramsKinetic modelPoor signal-to-noise ratio
2015
Accelerated acquisition of tagged MRI for cardiac motion correction in simultaneous PET‐MR: Phantom and patient studies
Huang C, Petibon Y, Ouyang J, Reese T, Ahlman M, Bluemke D, El Fakhri G. Accelerated acquisition of tagged MRI for cardiac motion correction in simultaneous PET‐MR: Phantom and patient studies. Medical Physics 2015, 42: 1087-1097. PMID: 25652521, PMCID: PMC4312342, DOI: 10.1118/1.4906247.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPET motion correctionMotion correctionSimultaneous PET-MRTMR dataPET list-mode dataPET-MRList-mode dataCardiac motion correctionPET-MR scannersImage qualityParallel imagingAcquisition timePET imagingRespiratory motionCompressive sensingMotion fieldAttenuation correctionDefect contrastModerate acceleration factorsDegradation of image qualityTagged MRCardiac phantomLong acquisition timesPhantomAccurate motion field