EJNMMI physics
Jul 15, 2026
BACKGROUND: Positron emission tomography with magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) provides noninvasive molecular characterization of breast cancer and has the potential to improve diagnostic accuracy, staging, treatment response assessment, and guid...
EJNMMI physics
Jul 15, 2026
PURPOSE: PET images often make small lesions difficult to identify because of noise and system blur. We address this by developing and evaluating MLPETÂ , a fast localized machine-learning method that approximates a computationally expensive probabili...
EJNMMI physics
Jul 12, 2026
BACKGROUND: New long field-of-view (FOV) PET scanners using bismuth germanate (BGO) detectors without time-of-flight (TOF) capability are now available. These systems incorporate deep learning-based TOF (DLb-TOF) models to compensate for the absence ...
EJNMMI physics
Jun 19, 2026
PURPOSE: High-quality 4D dynamic PET imaging is often compromised by noise, especially in low-count frames, which limits clinical utility and quantitative accuracy. This study proposes a novel spatiotemporal denoising method (SPRINTER) that integrate...
EJNMMI physics
Jun 15, 2026
BACKGROUND: Accurate prediction of treatment response in Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is crucial for personalized therapy. The Tensor Radiomics (TR) paradigm advances traditional radiomics by producing and analyzing diverse feature variations, employing ten...
EJNMMI physics
Jun 7, 2026
PURPOSE: Positron range (PR) limits spatial resolution and quantitative accuracy in PET imaging, particularly for high-energy positron-emitting radionuclides such as [Formula: see text]Ga. This study proposes a deep learning-based approach using 3D r...
EJNMMI physics
Jun 3, 2026
PURPOSE: To date, some studies have employed deep learning techniques to directly generate dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) parametric images from static PET. Compared with traditional methods, this approach requires only a single PET/compu...
EJNMMI physics
May 24, 2026
BACKGROUND: The efficacy of deep learning-based artificial intelligence segmentation (AI-seg) in 177Lu-DOTATATE dosimetry remains underexplored. This study evaluates AI-seg's contouring accuracy, dosimetric reliability, and time efficiency. METHODS: ...
EJNMMI physics
May 22, 2026
BACKGROUND: Pediatric lymphoma patients undergo multiple 18F-FDG PET/CT examinations for staging and response assessment, raising concerns about cumulative radiation dose, particularly from the CT component. We propose SnapPET, a CT-sparing deep lear...
EJNMMI physics
May 21, 2026
BACKGROUND: Deep learning (DL)-based denoising methods have shown promise for reducing radiation dose and/or acquisition time in pediatric PET imaging. However, conventional DL approaches typically require large and diverse training datasets to achie...