1. PET-CT scanner characterization for PET raw data use in biomedical research
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Giulia Fontana, Christopher Kurz, Elisabetta De Bernardi, Mario Ciocca, Chiara Gianoli, Marco Riboldi, Guido Baroni, Julia Bauer, Katia Parodi, Gianoli, C, Riboldi, M, Kurz, C, DE BERNARDI, E, Bauer, J, Fontana, G, Ciocca, M, Parodi, K, and Baroni, G
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ING-INF/06 - BIOINGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA E INFORMATICA ,Scanner ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Biomedical Research ,Computer science ,PET imaging ,ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION ,Health Informatics ,PET raw data ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,Domain (software engineering) ,03 medical and health sciences ,DICOM ,0302 clinical medicine ,Biomedical imaging ,Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted ,medicine ,Medical imaging ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Medical physics ,Computer vision ,dicom PET image ,PET-CT ,Radiological and Ultrasound Technology ,Data interpretation ,business.industry ,Treatment verification ,Bioingegneria ,Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design ,Characterization (materials science) ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Positron-Emission Tomography ,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,Raw data ,Algorithms - Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to describe the experiments and methods that led to the geometrical interpretation of new-generation commercial PET-CT scanners, finalized to off-line PET-based treatment verification in ion beam therapy. Typically, the geometrical correspondence between the image domain (i.e., the dicom PET) and the sinogram domain (i.e., the PET raw data) is not explicitly described by scanner vendors. Hence, the proposed characterization can be applied to commercial PET-CT scanners used in biomedical research, for the development of technologies and methods requiring the use of PET raw data, without having access to confidential information from the vendors.
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- 2014
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