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  1. The purpose was to validate 90Y PET gradient-based tumor segmentation in phantoms and to evaluate the impact of the segmentation method on reported tumor absorbed dose (AD) and biological effective dose (BED) in

    Authors: Justin K. Mikell, Ravi K. Kaza, Peter L. Roberson, Kelly C. Younge, Ravi N. Srinivasa, Bill S. Majdalany, Kyle C. Cuneo, Dawn Owen, Theresa Devasia, Matthew J. Schipper and Yuni K. Dewaraja
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:31
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  3. To develop and evaluate the feasibility of a data-driven deep learning approach (deepAC) for positron-emission tomography (PET) image attenuation correction without anatomical imaging. A PET attenuation correc...

    Authors: Fang Liu, Hyungseok Jang, Richard Kijowski, Gengyan Zhao, Tyler Bradshaw and Alan B. McMillan
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:24
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  4. Radioembolization is an established treatment for chemoresistant and unresectable liver cancers. Currently, treatment planning is often based on semi-empirical methods, which yield acceptable toxicity profiles...

    Authors: Remco Bastiaannet, S. Cheenu Kappadath, Britt Kunnen, Arthur J. A. T. Braat, Marnix G. E. H. Lam and Hugo W. A. M. de Jong
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:22
    Content type: Review Published on:

  5. MRI does not offer a direct method to obtain attenuation correction maps as its predecessors (stand-alone PET and PET/CT), and bone visualisation is particularly challenging. Recently, zero-echo-time (ZTE) was...

    Authors: João M. Sousa, Lieuwe Appel, Mathias Engström, Stergios Papadimitriou, Dag Nyholm, Elna-Marie Larsson, Håkan Ahlström and Mark Lubberink
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:20
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  6. Routine dosimetry is essential for personalized 177Lu-octreotate peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), but practical and robust dosimetry methods are needed for wide clinic...

    Authors: Michela Del Prete, Frédéric Arsenault, Nassim Saighi, Wei Zhao, François-Alexandre Buteau, Anna Celler and Jean-Mathieu Beauregard
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:25
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  7. [18F]Fluortriopride (FTP) was developed as a dopamine D3-selective radiotracer, thought to be important to neurobiological reward pathways and implicated in drug addiction, Parkinson’s disease, and schizophrenia....

    Authors: Robert K. Doot, Jacob G. Dubroff, Joshua S. Scheuermann, Kyle J. Labban, Jenny Cai, Chia-Ju Hsieh, Shihong Li, Hsiaoju Lee, Erin K. Schubert, Catherine Hou, Regan Sheffer, Alexander Schmitz, Kuiying Xu and Robert H. Mach
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:21
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  8. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare PET image reconstruction algorithms on novel digital silicon photomultiplier PET/CT in patients with newly diagnosed and histopathologically confirmed lung can...

    Authors: Michael Messerli, Paul Stolzmann, Michèle Egger-Sigg, Josephine Trinckauf, Stefano D’Aguanno, Irene A. Burger, Gustav K. von Schulthess, Philipp A. Kaufmann and Martin W. Huellner
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:27
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  9. Positron-emission tomography (PET) simulators are frequently used for development and performance evaluation of segmentation methods or quantitative uptake metrics. To date, most PET simulation tools are based...

    Authors: Elisabeth Pfaehler, Johan R. De Jong, Rudi A. J. O. Dierckx, Floris H. P. van Velden and Ronald Boellaard
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:16
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  10. Dose rate variation is a critical factor affecting radionuclide therapy (RNT) efficacy. Relatively few studies to date have investigated the dose rate effect in RNT. Therefore, the aim of this study was to ben...

    Authors: Yaser H. Gholami, Kathy P. Willowson, Nicholas J. Forwood, Rozelle Harvie, Nicholas Hardcastle, Regina Bromley, HyunJu Ryu, Samuel Yuen, Viive M. Howell, Zdenka Kuncic and Dale L. Bailey
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:18
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  11. The aim of our study was to compare 90Y dosimetry obtained from PET/MRI versus PET/CT post-therapy imaging among patients with primary or metastatic hepatic tumors.

    Authors: Karin Knešaurek, Abbas Tuli, Edward Kim, Sherif Heiba and Lale Kostakoglu
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:23
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  12. Radiomercury 197mHg and 197Hg, henceforth referred to as 197(m)Hg, is a promising theranostic radionuclide endowed with properties that allow diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The aim of this work was to i...

    Authors: Robert Freudenberg, Rudi Apolle, Martin Walther, Holger Hartmann and Jörg Kotzerke
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:15
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  13. This inter-comparison exercise was performed to demonstrate the variability of quantitative SPECT/CT imaging for lutetium-177 (177Lu) in current clinical practice. Our aim was to assess the feasibility of using i...

    Authors: Jill Wevrett, Andrew Fenwick, James Scuffham, Lena Johansson, Jonathan Gear, Susanne Schlögl, Marcel Segbers, Katarina Sjögreen-Gleisner, Pavel Solný, Michael Lassmann, Jill Tipping and Andrew Nisbet
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:17
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  14. In patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), serial 124I PET/CT imaging is, for instance, used to assess the absorbed (radiation) dose to lesions. Frequently, the lesions are located in the neck and they...

    Authors: Walter Jentzen, Jinda Phaosricharoen, Benedikt Gomez, Philipp Hetkamp, Vanessa Stebner, Ina Binse, Sonja Kinner, Ken Herrmann, Amir Sabet and James Nagarajah
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:13
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  15. Recently, 177Lu-dotatate therapy for neuroendocrine tumours has received regulatory approval. Dosimetry can be used to optimize treatment on an individual basis, but there is no international consensus as to how ...

    Authors: Anna Sundlöv, Johan Gustafsson, Gustav Brolin, Nadja Mortensen, Rebecca Hermann, Peter Bernhardt, Johanna Svensson, Michael Ljungberg, Jan Tennvall and Katarina Sjögreen Gleisner
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:12
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  17. Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) with [177Lu]-DOTA-TATE is an effective treatment of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). After each cycle of treatment, patient dosimetry evaluates the radiation dose to the ...

    Authors: Alexandre Chicheportiche, Faozi Artoul, Arnon Schwartz, Simona Grozinsky-Glasberg, Amichay Meirovitz, David J. Gross and Jeremy Godefroy
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:10
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  18. Matched attenuation maps are vital for obtaining accurate and reproducible kinetic and static parameter estimates from PET data. With increased interest in PET/CT imaging of diffuse lung diseases for assessing...

    Authors: Beverley F. Holman, Vesna Cuplov, Lynn Millner, Raymond Endozo, Toby M. Maher, Ashley M. Groves, Brian F. Hutton and Kris Thielemans
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:14
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  19. SPECT quantification is important for dosimetry in targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) and the calibration of SPECT images is a crucial stage for image quantification. The current standardized calibration prot...

    Authors: Adrien Halty, Jean-Noël Badel, Olga Kochebina and David Sarrut
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:11
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  20. Camera calibration, which translates reconstructed count map into absolute activity map, is a prerequisite procedure for quantitative SPECT imaging. Both planar and tomographic scans using different phantom ge...

    Authors: Wei Zhao, Pedro L. Esquinas, Xinchi Hou, Carlos F. Uribe, Marjorie Gonzalez, Jean-Mathieu Beauregard, Yuni K. Dewaraja and Anna Celler
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:8
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  21. A newly introduced PET/CT scanner (Discovery Meaningful Insights—DMI, GE Healthcare) includes the silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) with time-of-flight (TOF) technology first used in the GE SIGNA PET/MRI. In this...

    Authors: Ida Sonni, Lucia Baratto, Sonya Park, Negin Hatami, Shyam Srinivas, Guido Davidzon, Sanjiv Sam Gambhir and Andrei Iagaru
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:9
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  22. Yttrium-90 (90Y) radioembolization involves the intra-arterial delivery of radioactive microspheres to treat hepatic malignancies. Though this therapy involves careful pre-treatment planning and imaging, little i...

    Authors: Nichole M. Maughan, Mootaz Eldib, David Faul, Maurizio Conti, Mattijs Elschot, Karin Knešaurek, Francesca Leek, David Townsend, Frank P. DiFilippo, Kimberly Jackson, Stephan G. Nekolla, Mathias Lukas, Michael Tapner, Parag J. Parikh and Richard Laforest
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:7
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  23. The performance of a prototype novel digital single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) camera with multiple pixelated CZT detectors and high sensitivity collimators (Digital SPECT; Valiance X12 protot...

    Authors: Elinor Goshen, Leonid Beilin, Eli Stern, Tal Kenig, Ronen Goldkorn and Simona Ben-Haim
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:6
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  24. Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging is an important diagnostic tool for the early detection of the loss of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and similar neur...

    Authors: M. K. Stam, E. E. Verwer, J. Booij, S. M. Adriaanse, C. M. de Bruin and T. C. de Wit
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:4
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  25. Nuclear medicine imaging of neuroendocrine tumours is performed either by SPECT/CT imaging, using 111In-octreotide or by PET/CT imaging using 68Ga-radiolabelled somatostatin analogs. These imaging techniques will...

    Authors: L. Jönsson, A. Stenvall, E. Mattsson, E. Larsson, A. Sundlöv, T. Ohlsson and C. Hindorf
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:5
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    The Correction to this article has been published in EJNMMI Physics 2022 9:76

  26. Both cardiac and respiratory motions bias the kinetic parameters measured by dynamic PET. The aim of this study was to perform a realistic positron emission tomography-magnetic resonance (PET-MR) simulation st...

    Authors: Rong Guo, Yoann Petibon, Yixin Ma, Georges El Fakhri, Kui Ying and Jinsong Ouyang
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:3
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  27. The aim of this study was to investigate the deadtime (DT) effects that are present in 177Lu images acquired after radionuclide therapy injection, assess differences in DT based on the full spectrum and the photo...

    Authors: Carlos F. Uribe, Pedro L. Esquinas, Marjorie Gonzalez, Wei Zhao, Jesse Tanguay and Anna Celler
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:2
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  28. Full Monte Carlo (MC)-based SPECT reconstructions have a strong potential for correcting for image degrading factors, but the reconstruction times are long. The objective of this study was to develop a highly ...

    Authors: T. Rydén, J. Heydorn Lagerlöf, J. Hemmingsson, I. Marin, J. Svensson, M. Båth, P. Gjertsson and P. Bernhardt
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2018 5:1
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  30. PET-MRI is under investigation as a new strategy for quantitative myocardial perfusion imaging. Consideration is required as to the maximum scanner count rate in order to limit dead-time losses resulting from ...

    Authors: Jim O’ Doherty, Zacharias Chalampalakis, Paul Schleyer, Muhummad Sohaib Nazir, Amedeo Chiribiri and Paul K. Marsden
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:31
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  31.  Several criteria exist to identify the optimal model for quantification of tracer kinetics. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the correspondence in kinetic model preference identification for brain PE...

    Authors: Sandeep S. V. Golla, Sofie M. Adriaanse, Maqsood Yaqub, Albert D. Windhorst, Adriaan A. Lammertsma, Bart N. M. van Berckel and Ronald Boellaard
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:30
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  32. Currently, the implementation of dosimetry in molecular radiotherapy (MRT) is not well investigated, and in view of the Council Directive (2013/59/Euratom), there is a need to understand the current availabili...

    Authors: Katarina Sjögreen Gleisner, Emiliano Spezi, Pavel Solny, Pablo Minguez Gabina, Francesco Cicone, Caroline Stokke, Carlo Chiesa, Maria Paphiti, Boudewijn Brans, Mattias Sandström, Jill Tipping, Mark Konijnenberg and Glenn Flux
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:28
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  33. Semi-quantification methods are well established in the clinic for assisted reporting of (I123) Ioflupane images. Arguably, these are limited diagnostic tools. Recent research has demonstrated the potential fo...

    Authors: Jonathan Christopher Taylor and John Wesley Fenner
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:29
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  34. The European directive on basic safety standards (Council directive 2013/59 Euratom) mandates dosimetry-based treatment planning for radiopharmaceutical therapies. The directive comes into operation February 2...

    Authors: Caroline Stokke, Pablo Minguez Gabiña, Pavel Solný, Francesco Cicone, Mattias Sandström, Katarina Sjögreen Gleisner, Carlo Chiesa, Emiliano Spezi, Maria Paphiti, Mark Konijnenberg, Matt Aldridge, Jill Tipping, Michael Wissmeyer, Boudewijn Brans, Klaus Bacher, Carsten Kobe…
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:27
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  35. Quantitative measurement of myocardial blood flow (MBF) is of increasing interest in the clinical assessment of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). 15O-water positron emission tomography (PET) ...

    Authors: Jonny Nordström, Tanja Kero, Hendrik Johannes Harms, Charles Widström, Frank A. Flachskampf, Jens Sörensen and Mark Lubberink
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:26
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  36. In the planning of selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) for liver cancer treatment, one major aspect is to determine the prescribed activity and to estimate the resulting absorbed dose inside normal liv...

    Authors: Nadine Spahr, Philipp Schilling, Smita Thoduka, Nasreddin Abolmaali and Andrea Schenk
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:25
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  37. Technetium-99m-hydrazinonicotinamide-Tyr3-octreotide (99mTc-HYNIC-TOC) is recognized as a promising radiopharmaceutical for diagnosing neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). However, 99mTc-HYNIC-TOC dosimetry has been inv...

    Authors: Xinchi Hou, Bozena Birkenfeld, Hanna Piwowarska-Bilska and Anna Celler
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:24
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  38. To date, there is no published detailed checklist with parameters referencing the DICOM tag information with respect to the quality control (QC) of PET/CT scans. The aims of these guidelines are to provide the...

    Authors: Ivalina Hristova, Ronald Boellaard, Paul Galette, Lalitha K. Shankar, Yan Liu, Sigrid Stroobants, Otto S. Hoekstra and Wim J.G. Oyen
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:23
    Content type: Opinion article Published on:

  39. We have previously developed a novel and highly consistent PET segmentation algorithm using a multi-level Otsu method (MO-PET). The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability of MO-PET compared to conve...

    Authors: Inki Lee, Hyung-Jun Im, Meiyappan Solaiyappan and Steve Y. Cho
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:22
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  40. Implementation of PET/CT in diagnosis of primary prostate cancer (PCa) requires a profound knowledge about the tracer, preferably from a quantitative evaluation. Direct visual comparison of PET/CT slices to wh...

    Authors: F. Schiller, T. Fechter, C. Zamboglou, A. Chirindel, N. Salman, C.A. Jilg, V. Drendel, M. Werner, P.T. Meyer, A.-L. Grosu and M. Mix
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:21
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  41. Developments in single photon emission tomography instrumentation and reconstruction methods present a potential for decreasing acquisition times. One of such recent options for myocardial perfusion imaging (M...

    Authors: Eero Hippeläinen, Teemu Mäkelä, Touko Kaasalainen and Erna Kaleva
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:20
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  42. A prototype anthropomorphic head and neck phantom has been designed to simulate the adult head and neck anatomy including some internal organs and tissues of interest, such as thyroid gland and sentinel lymph ...

    Authors: Mohammed S. Alqahtani, John E. Lees, Sarah L. Bugby, Piyal Samara-Ratna, Aik H. Ng and Alan C. Perkins
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:19
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  43. Robust quantitative analysis in positron emission tomography (PET) and in single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) typically requires the time-activity curve as an input function for the pharmacokine...

    Authors: Romain Espagnet, Andrea Frezza, Jean-Pierre Martin, Louis-André Hamel, Laëtitia Lechippey, Jean-Mathieu Beauregard and Philippe Després
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:18
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  44. This study evaluates the consistency of PET evaluation response criteria in solid tumours (PERCIST) and European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) classification across different recons...

    Authors: Charline Lasnon, Elske Quak, Pierre-Yves Le Roux, Philippe Robin, Michael S. Hofman, David Bourhis, Jason Callahan, David S. Binns, Cédric Desmonts, Pierre-Yves Salaun, Rodney J. Hicks and Nicolas Aide
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:17
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  45. The correction of γ-photon attenuation in PET-MRI remains a critical issue, especially for bone attenuation. This problem is of great importance for brain studies due to the density of the skull. Current techn...

    Authors: Vincent Lebon, Sébastien Jan, Yoann Fontyn, Brice Tiret, Géraldine Pottier, Emilie Jaumain and Julien Valette
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:16
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  46. The year, 2016, marked the 75th anniversary of Dr. Saul Hertz first using radioiodine to treat a patient with thyroid disease. In November of 1936, a luncheon was held of the faculty of Harvard Medical School ...

    Authors: Frederic H. Fahey, Frederick D. Grant and James H. Thrall
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:15
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  48. A phantom in combination with an imaging protocol was developed to measure the limit of small lesion detection on different PET systems. Seven small spheres with inner diameters ranging from 3.95 up to 15.43 m...

    Authors: Stephen Adler, Jurgen Seidel, Peter Choyke, Michael V. Knopp, Katherine Binzel, Jun Zhang, Craig Barker, Shielah Conant and Roberto Maass-Moreno
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:13
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  49. Accurate PET quantification demands attenuation correction (AC) for both patient and hardware attenuation of the 511 keV annihilation photons. In hybrid PET/MR imaging, AC for stationary hardware components su...

    Authors: Thorsten Heußer, Christopher M. Rank, Yannick Berker, Martin T. Freitag and Marc Kachelrieß
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:12
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  50. Monolithic scintillators read out by arrays of photodetectors represent a promising solution to obtain high spatial resolution and the depth of interaction (DOI) of the annihilation photon. We have recently in...

    Authors: Matteo Morrocchi, Giovanni Ambrosi, Maria Giuseppina Bisogni, Filippo Bosi, Marco Boretto, Piergiorgio Cerello, Maria Ionica, Ben Liu, Francesco Pennazio, Maria Antonietta Piliero, Giovanni Pirrone, Vasile Postolache, Richard Wheadon and Alberto Del Guerra
    Citation: EJNMMI Physics 2017 4:11
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