Generation of accurate hybrid datasets for quantitative molecular imaging

    公开(公告)号:US11354832B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-07

    申请号:US16609890

    申请日:2018-05-01

    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions readable and executable by an imaging workstation (14) including at least one electronic processor (16) to perform a dataset generation method (100) operating on emission imaging data acquired of a patient for one or more axial frames at a corresponding one or more bed positions, the method comprising: (a) identifying a frame of interest from the one or more axial frames; (b) generating simulated lesion data by simulating emission imaging data for the frame of interest of at least one simulated lesion placed in the frame of interest; (c) generating simulated frame emission imaging data by simulating emission imaging data for the frame of interest of the patient; (d) determining a normalization factor comprising a ratio of the value of a quantitative metric for the simulated patient data and the value of the quantitative metric for the emission imaging data acquired of the same patient for the frame of interest; and (e) generating a hybrid data set comprising the emission imaging data acquired of the patient for the one or more axial frames at the corresponding one or more bed positions with the frame of interest replaced by a combination of the simulated lesion data scaled by the normalization factor and the emission imaging data acquired of the patient for the frame of interest.

    Automatic on-the-fly positron emission tomography (PET) scan planning and optimization

    公开(公告)号:US11311263B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-26

    申请号:US16768065

    申请日:2018-11-26

    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions executable by a processor to perform an acquisition and reconstruction method for a first image acquisition device. The method includes determining a scheduled acquisition time based on an attenuation map derived from imaging data from a second image acquisition device and a sensitivity matrix of the first image acquisition device; acquiring emission imaging data using the first image acquisition device, where the acquiring is scheduled to be performed over the scheduled acquisition time; during an initial portion of the acquiring, measuring a count or count rate of the acquired emission imaging data; adjusting the scheduled acquisition time based on the measured count or count rate to generate an adjusted acquisition time while continuing the acquiring; stopping the acquiring at the adjusted acquisition time; and reconstructing the emission imaging data acquired over the adjusted acquisition time to generate one or more reconstructed images.

    Scatter correction for positron emission tomography (PET)

    公开(公告)号:US11282242B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-22

    申请号:US16963343

    申请日:2019-01-24

    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions readable and executable by a workstation (18) including at least one electronic processor (20) to perform an image reconstruction method (100). The method includes: generating, from received imaging data, a plurality of intermediate images reconstructed without scatter correction from data partitioned into different energy windows; generating a fraction of true counts and a fraction of scatter events in the generated intermediate images; generating a final reconstructed image from the intermediate images, the fraction of true counts in the intermediate images, and the fraction of scatter counts in the intermediate images; and at least one of controlling the non-transitory computer readable medium to store the final image and control a display device (24) to display the final image.

    Interactive targeted ultrafast reconstruction in emission and transmission tomography

    公开(公告)号:US11069098B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-20

    申请号:US16461121

    申请日:2017-11-22

    Abstract: An imaging data set (22) comprising detected counts along lines of response (LORs) is reconstructed (24) to generate a full-volume image at a standard resolution. A region selection graphical user interface (GUI) (26) is provided via which a user-chosen region of interest (ROI) is defined in the full-volume image, and this is automatically adjusted by identifying an anatomical feature corresponding to the user-chosen ROI and adjusting the user-chosen ROI to improve alignment with that feature. A sub-set (32) of the counts of the imaging data set is selected (30) for reconstructing the ROI, and only the selected sub-set is reconstructed (34) to generate a ROI image (36) representing the ROI at a higher resolution than the standard resolution. A fraction of the sub-set of counts may be reconstructed using different reconstruction algorithms (40) to generate corresponding sample ROI images, and a reconstruction algorithm selection graphical user interface (42) employs these sample ROI images.

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