Introduction: There are several technical features that make PET an ideal device for the noninvasive evaluation of cardiac physiology. Organ motion due to respiration is a major challenge in diagnostic imaging, especially in cardiac PET imaging. These motions reduce image quality by spreading the radiotracer activity over an increased volume, distorting apparent les...

introduction: there are several technical features that make pet an ideal device for the noninvasive evaluation of cardiac physiology. organ motion due to respiration is a major challenge in diagnostic imaging, especially in cardiac pet imaging. these motions reduce image quality by spreading the radiotracer activity over an increased volume, distorting apparent lesion size and shape and reduci...

  Introduction: Poor sensitivity and poor signal to noise ratio because of low injected thallium dose and presence of scattered photons are the main problems in using thallium in scintigraphic imaging of the heart. Scattered photons are the main cause of degrading the contrast and resolution in SPECT imaging that result in error in quantification. Thallium decay is ve...

PURPOSE In gated cardiac single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), image reconstruction is often hampered by various degrading factors including depth-dependent spatial blurring, attenuation, scatter, motion blurring, and low data counts. Consequently, there has been significant development in image reconstruction methods for improving the quality of reconstructed images. The goal of ...

PURPOSE Accurate and robust image segmentation was identified as one of the most challenging issues facing PET quantification in oncological imaging. This difficulty is compounded by the low spatial resolution and high noise characteristics of PET images. The fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering algorithm was largely used in various medical image segmentation approaches. However, the algorithm is sen...

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At universities across the country, flipped classrooms are replacing traditional lectures for many fundamental engineering courses. Flipped classes often use short, lecture-style videos that students view before coming to class. Conventional wisdom in creating these videos says that it is better for the video to be of the actual course instructor rather than a video of someone else. The ubiquit...