Device-less gating for PET/CT using PCA

…, S Rathore, F Engbrant, P Razifar - 2011 IEEE Nuclear …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Movement degrades image quality in PET/CT. The first step in correcting for movement is to
gate the data into different motion states. The gating is usually based on information from …

[HTML][HTML] Noise correlation in PET, CT, SPECT and PET/CT data evaluated using autocorrelation function: a phantom study on data, reconstructed using FBP and …

P Razifar, M Sandström, H Schnieder, B Långström… - BMC medical …, 2005 - Springer
Background Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Computed Tomography (CT), PET/CT
and Single Photon Emission Tomography (SPECT) are non-invasive imaging tools used for …

[HTML][HTML] Non-isotropic noise correlation in PET data reconstructed by FBP but not by OSEM demonstrated using auto-correlation function

P Razifar, M Lubberink, H Schneider, B Långström… - BMC medical …, 2005 - Springer
Background Positron emission tomography (PET) is a powerful imaging technique with the
potential of obtaining functional or biochemical information by measuring distribution and …

Evaluation of the Hsp90 inhibitor NVP-AUY922 in multicellular tumour spheroids with respect to effects on growth and PET tracer uptake

A Monazzam, P Razifar, S Ide, MR Jensen… - Nuclear medicine and …, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Molecular targeting has become a prominent concept in cancer treatment
and heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) inhibitors are suggested as promising anticancer drugs. …

A new application of pre-normalized principal component analysis for improvement of image quality and clinical diagnosis in human brain PET studies—clinical brain …

P Razifar, J Axelsson, H Schneider, B Långström… - Neuroimage, 2006 - Elsevier
Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most applied multivariate image analysis
tool on dynamic Positron Emission Tomography (PET). Independent of used reconstruction …

[HTML][HTML] Multicellular Tumour Spheroid as a model for evaluation of [18F]FDG as biomarker for breast cancer treatment monitoring

A Monazzam, P Razifar, M Simonsson… - Cancer Cell …, 2006 - Springer
Background In order to explore a pre-clinical method to evaluate if [ 18 F]FDG is valid for
monitoring early response, we investigated the uptake of FDG in Multicellular tumour spheroids (…

[HTML][HTML] A new, fast and semi-automated size determination method (SASDM) for studying multicellular tumor spheroids

A Monazzam, P Razifar, Ö Lindhe, R Josephsson… - Cancer cell …, 2005 - Springer
Background Considering the width and importance of using Multicellular Tumor Spheroids (MTS)
in oncology research, size determination of MTSs by an accurate and fast method is …

[HTML][HTML] Masked volume wise principal component analysis of small adrenocortical tumours in dynamic [11C]-metomidate positron emission tomography

P Razifar, J Hennings, A Monazzam, P Hellman… - BMC Medical …, 2009 - Springer
Background In previous clinical Positron Emission Tomography (PET) studies novel approaches
for application of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on dynamic PET images such as …

Synthesis and characterization of scVEGF‐PEG‐[68Ga]NOTA and scVEGF‐PEG‐[68Ga]DOTA PET tracers

…, P Razifar, M Nair, P Razifar… - Journal of Labelled …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) signaling via vascular endothelial growth factor
receptor 2 (VEGFR‐2) on tumor endothelial cells is a critical driver of tumor angiogenesis. …

Modeling spheroid growth, PET tracer uptake, and treatment effects of the Hsp90 inhibitor NVP-AUY922

M Bergstrom, A Monazzam, P Razifar… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2008 - Soc Nuclear Med
For a PET agent to be successful as a biomarker in early clinical trials of new anticancer
agents, some conditions need to be fulfilled: the selected tracer should show a response that is …