Advances in multimodal data fusion in neuroimaging: Overview, challenges, and novel orientation

YD Zhang, Z Dong, SH Wang, X Yu, X Yao, Q Zhou… - Information …, 2020 - Elsevier
Multimodal fusion in neuroimaging combines data from multiple imaging modalities to
overcome the fundamental limitations of individual modalities. Neuroimaging fusion can …

Positron emission tomography: current challenges and opportunities for technological advances in clinical and preclinical imaging systems

JJ Vaquero, P Kinahan - Annual review of biomedical …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is based on detecting two time-coincident high-
energy photons from the emission of a positron-emitting radioisotope. The physics of the …

MR‐based synthetic CT generation using a deep convolutional neural network method

X Han - Medical physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Interests have been rapidly growing in the field of radiotherapy to replace CT with
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), due to superior soft tissue contrast offered by MRI and …

Deep learning MR imaging–based attenuation correction for PET/MR imaging

F Liu, H Jang, R Kijowski, T Bradshaw, AB McMillan - Radiology, 2018 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To develop and evaluate the feasibility of deep learning approaches for magnetic
resonance (MR) imaging–based attenuation correction (AC)(termed deep MRAC) in brain …

Unsupervised MR-to-CT synthesis using structure-constrained CycleGAN

H Yang, J Sun, A Carass, C Zhao, J Lee… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthesizing a CT image from an available MR image has recently emerged as a key goal
in radiotherapy treatment planning for cancer patients. CycleGANs have achieved promising …

First clinical experience with integrated whole-body PET/MR: comparison to PET/CT in patients with oncologic diagnoses

A Drzezga, M Souvatzoglou, M Eiber… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2012 - Soc Nuclear Med
The recently introduced first integrated whole-body PET/MR scanner allows simultaneous
acquisition of PET and MRI data in humans and, thus, may offer new opportunities …

Attenuation correction synthesis for hybrid PET-MR scanners: application to brain studies

N Burgos, MJ Cardoso, K Thielemans… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attenuation correction is an essential requirement for quantification of positron emission
tomography (PET) data. In PET/CT acquisition systems, attenuation maps are derived from …

Synthetic CT generation from non-attenuation corrected PET images for whole-body PET imaging

X Dong, T Wang, Y Lei, K Higgins, T Liu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Attenuation correction (AC) of PET/MRI faces challenges including inter-scan motion, image
artifacts such as truncation and distortion, and erroneous transformation of structural voxel …

[HTML][HTML] PET-MRI: a review of challenges and solutions in the development of integrated multimodality imaging

S Vandenberghe, PK Marsden - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The integration of positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) has been an ongoing research topic for the last 20 years. This paper gives an …

A new deep convolutional neural network design with efficient learning capability: Application to CT image synthesis from MRI

A Bahrami, A Karimian, E Fatemizadeh… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Despite the proven utility of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in
radiation therapy, MRI‐guided radiation treatment planning is limited by the fact that MRI …