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 …

[HTML][HTML] Positron emission tomography (PET) in oncology

A Gallamini, C Zwarthoed, A Borra - Cancers, 2014 - mdpi.com
Since its introduction in the early nineties as a promising functional imaging technique in the
management of neoplastic disorders, FDG-PET, and subsequently FDG-PET/CT, has …

18F-FDG PET/CT and PET/MRI perform equally well in cancer: evidence from studies on more than 2,300 patients

C Spick, K Herrmann, J Czernin - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2016 - Soc Nuclear Med
18F-FDG PET/CT has become the reference standard in oncologic imaging against which
the performance of other imaging modalities is measured. The promise of PET/MRI includes …

[HTML][HTML] A spatiotemporal multi-scale computational model for FDG PET imaging at different stages of tumor growth and angiogenesis

FM Kashkooli, MA Abazari, M Soltani, MA Ghazani… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
A deeper understanding of the tumor microenvironment (TME) and its role in metabolic
activity at different stages of vascularized tumors can provide useful insights into cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Cerebral metabolism and perfusion in MR-negative individuals with refractory focal epilepsy assessed by simultaneous acquisition of 18F-FDG PET and …

IB Galazzo, MV Mattoli, FB Pizzini, E De Vita… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2016 - Elsevier
The major challenge in pre-surgical epileptic patient evaluation is the correct identification of
the seizure onset area, especially in MR-negative patients. In this study, we aimed to:(1) …

Diagnostic performance of [18F]-FDG PET/MR in evaluating colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

SA Mirshahvalad, R Hinzpeter, A Kohan… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose To calculate the diagnostic performance of [18F]-FDG PET/MR in colorectal cancer
(CRC). Methods This study was designed following the PRISMA-DTA guidelines. To be …

Added value of integrated whole-body PET/MRI for evaluation of colorectal cancer: comparison with contrast-enhanced MDCT

B Kang, JM Lee, YS Song, S Woo… - American Journal of …, 2016 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the added clinical value of PET/MRI
compared with conventional contrast-enhanced MDCT (CECT) alone in the evaluation of …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative comparison of PET performance—Siemens Biograph mCT and mMR

AM Karlberg, O Sæther, L Eikenes, PE Goa - EJNMMI physics, 2016 - Springer
Background Integrated clinical whole-body PET/MR systems were introduced in 2010. In
order to bring this technology into clinical usage, it is of great importance to compare the …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic 18F-FDG PET image generation using a combination of biomathematical modeling and machine learning

MA Abazari, M Soltani, F Moradi Kashkooli… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Training computer-assisted algorithms on medical images, particularly 18F-
fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) due to its excellent …

Simultaneous PET/MRI vs. PET/CT in oncology. A systematic review

C Riola-Parada, L García-Cañamaque… - Revista Española de …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective The aim of this review was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of simultaneous
PET/MRI in oncology compared with that of PET/CT, based upon the available evidence …