Bing Bai

TL;DR: This work demonstrates that different scanner settings are necessary to optimize the NEC count rate for different-sized animals and different injected doses.

TL;DR: The current status of tumor quantification methods and their applications to clinical oncology are reviewed, and factors that impede quantitative assessment and limit its accuracy and reproducibility are summarized.

TL;DR: This article reviews research efforts over the past 20 years to develop model-based PET reconstruction methods based on the use of both Markov random field priors and joint information or entropy measures, and discusses approaches based onThe general framework for these methods is described, and their performance and longer-term potential and limitations are discussed.

TL;DR: A maximum likelihood approach to joint estimation of the count-rate independent normalization factors, which is an extension of previous factored normalization methods in which separate factors for detector sensitivity, geometric response, block effects and deadtime are included.

TL;DR: In this article, a 3D isotropic shift-invariant blur kernel is proposed to estimate the range of positrons in a homogeneous medium and a new shift-variant blurring model for positron range that accounts for spatial inhomogeneities in the positron scatter properties of the medium is proposed.