PET imaging of inflammation in atherosclerosis

JM Tarkin, FR Joshi, JHF Rudd - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2014 - nature.com
PET imaging of atherosclerosis can quantify several in vivo pathological processes
occurring within the arterial system. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) is the most-commonly …

Imaging atherosclerosis

JM Tarkin, MR Dweck, NR Evans, RAP Takx… - Circulation …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Advances in atherosclerosis imaging technology and research have provided a range of
diagnostic tools to characterize high-risk plaque in vivo; however, these important vascular …

Attenuation correction in emission tomography using the emission data—a review

Y Berker, Y Li - Medical physics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The problem of attenuation correction (AC) for quantitative positron emission tomography
(PET) had been considered solved to a large extent after the commercial availability of …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting certain interleukins as novel treatment options for liver fibrosis

SY An, AD Petrescu, S DeMorrow - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The liver is a major metabolic organ and an immunologically complex organ. It produces
and uses many substances such as acute phase proteins, cytokines, chemokines, and …

PET respiratory motion correction: quo vadis?

F Lamare, A Bousse, K Thielemans, C Liu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) respiratory motion correction has been a subject of
great interest for the last twenty years, prompted mainly by the development of multimodality …

Respiratory motion compensation for PET/CT with motion information derived from matched attenuation-corrected gated PET data

Y Lu, K Fontaine, T Mulnix, JA Onofrey… - Journal of nuclear …, 2018 - Soc Nuclear Med
Respiratory motion degrades the detection and quantification capabilities of PET/CT
imaging. Moreover, mismatch between a fast helical CT image and a time-averaged PET …

Atherosclerosis imaging using PET: Insights and applications

RS Sriranjan, JM Tarkin, NR Evans… - British Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
PET imaging is able to harness biological processes to characterise high‐risk features of
atherosclerotic plaque prone to rupture. Current radiotracers are able to track inflammation …

Maximum-likelihood joint image reconstruction/motion estimation in attenuation-corrected respiratory gated PET/CT using a single attenuation map

A Bousse, O Bertolli, D Atkinson… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
<? Pub Dtl=""?> This work provides an insight into positron emission tomography (PET) joint
image reconstruction/motion estimation (JRM) by maximization of the likelihood, where the …

Assessment of atherosclerosis in large vessel walls: a comprehensive review of FDG-PET/CT image acquisition protocols and methods for uptake quantification

S Gholami, A Salavati, S Houshmand, TJ Werner… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Elsevier
There is growing evidence showing the importance of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission
tomography (FDG-PET) in the evaluation of vessel wall inflammation and atherosclerosis …

Reconstruction-incorporated respiratory motion correction in clinical simultaneous PET/MR imaging for oncology applications

H Fayad, H Schmidt, C Wuerslin… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
Simultaneous PET and MR imaging is a promising new technique allowing the fusion of
functional (PET) and anatomic/functional (MR) information. In the thoracic–abdominal …