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2008

  • Alessio AM and Kinahan PE. Appllication of a spatially variant system model for 3-D whole body PET image reconstruction. 2008. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, p. 1315-1318. Paris. To IEEE
  • Alessio AM, Schmitz RE, MacDonald LR, Wollenweber S, Stearns CW, Ross S,  Ganin A, Lewellen TK, Kinahan PE. Image reconstruction for a partially  collimated whole-body PET scanner. 2008. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on,. Vol. 55(3),  Part 1, pp: 975 - 983. To IEEE
  • Alessio AM and MacDonald LR. Spatially variant positron range modeling derived from CT for PET image reconstruction. 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record. Dresden. Conference proceedings in press.
  • Harrison RL, Gillispie SB, Schmitz RE, MacDonald LR, Hunter W, Lewellen TK. Comparision of a block detector simulation with experimental measurements. 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. Conference proceedings in press.
  • Harrison RL, Gillispie SB, Lewellen TK. Simulation of system for emission tomography (SimSET): Using simulation to research ideas in emission tomography (PET and SPECT). Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2008 meeting abstracts, pp 157 P-B. To JNM
  • Harrison RL, Gillispie SB, Schmitz RE, Lewellen TK. Modelingn block detectors in SimSET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2008 meeting abstracts, pp 410 P-B. To JNM
  • Lewellen TK, Miyaoka RS, MacDonald LR, Haselman M, DeWitt D, Hunter W, Hauck S. Design of a second generation firewire based data acquisition system for small animal PET scanners. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. Conference proceedings in press.
  • Li X, Lockhart C, Lewellen TK, Miyaoka RS.  A high resolution, monolithic crystal, PET/MRI detector with DOI positioning capability.  30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.  Vancouver, Canada.  Conference proceedings in press.
  • Ling T, Burnett TH, Lewellen TK, Miyaoka RS.  Parametric positioning of a continuous crystal PET detector with depth of interaction decoding.  Apr 2008. Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 53, pp. 1843-1863. To Phys Med Biol
  • MacDonald LR, Schmitz RE, Alessio AM, Wollenweber SD, Stearns CW, Ganin A, Harrison RL, Lewellen TK, Kinahan PE. Count-rate performance of  the Discovery STE PET scanner using partial collimation. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2008. Vol. 53 pp. 3723-3738. To Phys Med Biol
  • Miyaoka RS, Joo SK, Lee K.  Detector light response modeling for a thick continuous slab detector.  2008. Journal of Nuclear Science Technology. Vol. 45(7), pp. 634-8, 2008. To JNST
  • Schmitz RE, Gillispie SB, Harrison RL, MacDonald LR, Kinahan PE, Lewellen TK. Expanding SimSET to include block detectors: Performance with pseudo-blocks and a true block model. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium 2008 Conference Record. (6) pp 4275-4278. To IEEE

2007

  • Alessio AM, Kohlmyer S, Branch K, Chen G, Caldwell J, Kinahan P. Cine CT for attenuation correction in cardiac PET/CT. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2007. 48:5 794-802. To JNM
  •  Alessio AM, Kohlmyer SG, and Kinahan PE, Consistency driven respiratory phase alignment and motion compensation in PET/CT. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record. 2007. Honolulu. Vol 4, pp 3115 – 3119. PDF
  • Alessio AM, Sauer K, Kinahan PE, Statistical image reconstruction from correlated data with applications to PET. 2007. Physics in Medicine and  Biology. Vol.52 pp 6133-6150.  To Phys Med Biol
  • Chen GP, Branch KR, Alessio AM, Pham P, Tabibiazar R, Kinahan P,  Caldwell JH. Effect of reconstruction algorithms on myocardial blood flow measurement with N-13 ammonia PET imaging. 2007. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Vol.48, pp.1259-1265. To JNM
  • Doot RK,  Dunnwald LK, Schubert EK, Muzi M, Peterson LM, Kinahan PE,  Kurland  BF, Mankoff DA. Dynamic and static approaches to quantifying  FDG uptake for measuring cancer response to therapy including the  effect of GCSF. 2007. Journal of Nulcear Medicine vol. 48 pp.920-925. To JNM
  • Gifford HC, Kinahan PE, Lartizien C, and King MA. Evaluation of  multiclass model observers in PET LROC studies. 2007 IEEE Transactions on  Nuclear Science. Vol 54(1):116-123. To IEEE
  • Harrison RL, Kinahan PE, and Lewellen TK. A generalized simulation description language. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007:4012-4014. PDF
  • Haselman MD, Hauck S, Lewellen TK, and Miyaoka RS. Simulation of algorithms for pulse timing in FPGAs. 2007. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 4:3161-3165. PDF
  • Lewellen TK, MacDonald LR, Miyaoka RS, McDougald W, and Champley K. New directions for dMiCE - a depth-of-interaction detector design for PET scanners. 2007. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007. Vol. 5, pp. 3798-3802. PDF
  • Ling T, Lewellen TK, Miyaoka RS. Depth of interaction decoding of a continuous crystal detector module. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2007. 52:2213-2228. To Phys Med Biol
  • Ling T, Lewellen TK, Miyaoka RS.  Improving the intrinsic spatial resolution performance of the continuous miniature crystal element (cMiCE) detector. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record. 2007. Honolulu, Hawaii. Proceedings on CD- ROM. PDF
  • MacDonald LR, Schmitz RE, Alessio AM, Harrison, RL Lewellen TK, and Kinahan PE. Estimating live-time for new PET scanner configurations. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007. 4:2880-2884. PDF
  • Miyaoka RS, Ling T, Lockhart CM, Lewellen TK.  Calibration procedure for a continuous miniature crystal element (cMiCE) detector. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record. 2007. Honolulu, Hawaii. Proceedings on CD- ROM. PDF
  • Miyaoka RS, Ling T, Lewellen TK.  Effect of number of readout channels on the intrinsic spatial resolution performance of a continuous miniature crystal element (cMiCE) detector. IEEE Transactions in Nuclear Science, Oct 2007. vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1561-7. To IEEE
  • Schmitz RE, Gillispie SB, Harrison RL, MacDonald LR, Kinahan PE and Lewellen TK. Expanding SimSET to include block detectors: performance with pseudo-blocks and a true block model. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007. 6:4275-4278. PDF
  • Schmitz RE, Harrison RL, Stearns CW, Lewellen TK, Kinahan PE. Optimization of noise equivalent count-rate performance for a partially collimated PET scanner by varying the number of SEPTA. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 2007. 26-7:935-944. To IEEE

2006

  • Alessio, AM, Caldwell J, Chen G, Branch K, Kinahan P. Attenuation-emission alignment in cardiac PET/CT with consistency conditions. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 2006. 6:3288-3291. PDF
  • Alessio, A, Kinahan P, Improved quantitation for PET/CT image  reconstruction with system modeling and anatomical priors. Medical  Physics 2006. vol. 33(11): 4095-4103. To Med Phy
  • Alessio AM, Kinahan PE, Lewellen TK. Modeling and incorporation of  system response functions in 3D whole-body PET. 2006. IEEE Transactions on  Medical Imaging. 25(7):828-837. To IEEE
  • Harrison RL, Gillispie SB, Lewellen TK. Design and implementation of a block detector simulation in SimSET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 2006. 5:3151-3153. PDF
  • Janeiro L, Comtat C, Lartizien C, Kinahan PE, Defrise M, Michel C,  Trebossen R, Almeida P. Numerical observer studies comparing FORE +AWOSEM, FORE+NECOSEM and NEC based fully 3-D OSEM for 3-D whole-Body PET imaging. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 2006. 53(3):1194-1199. To IEEE
  • Kinahan PE, Alessio AM. Fessler JA. Dual energy CT attenuation correction methods for quantitative assessment of response to cancer therapy with PET/CT imaging. Journal of Technology in Cancer Research Treatment. 2006. 4(5)319-323.  To JTCRT
  • Lewellen BK, Cross D, Craft S, Baker L, Kosugi T, Okada H, Lewellen TK, Kinahan PE, Minoshima S. Improved PET detection of focal brain activity using subset-dependent relaxation 'dynamic' row-action maximum likelihood algorithm (DRAMA). IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 2006 M06-362:2177- 2179. PDF
  • Ling T, Lewellen TK, Miyaoka RS. Investigation of depth of interaction decoding for a continuous crystal detector. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record. 2006. San Diego, CA. PDF
  • Ling T, Lee K, Miyaoka RS. Performance comparisons of continuous Miniature Crystal Element (cMiCE) detectors. Oct 2006. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 2006. Vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 2513-2518. To IEEE
  • MacDonald LR, Schmitz RE, Alessio AM, Wollenweber SD, Stearns CW, Ganin A, Harrison RL, Lewellen TK, Kinahan PE. Count-rate performance of the discovery STE PET scanner using partial collimation. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 2006. M11-109:2488- 2493. PDF
  • Miyaoka RS, Ling T, Lewellen TK. Effect of number of readout channels on the performance of a continuous Miniature Crystal Element (cMiCE) detector. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record. 2006.San Diego, CA. Proceedings on CD- ROM. PDF
  • Schmitz RE, Kinahan PE, Harrison RL, and Lewellen TK. Simulations of the effect of collimation of count rates for an LSO PET system IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. 2006:3049-3052. PDF
2005
  • Lee K, Miyaoka RS, Janes ML, Lewellen TK. Detector characteristics of the Micro Crystal Element Scanner (MiCES). Oct 2005. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. Vol. 52, no. 5(1), pp. 1428-33. To IEEE
  • Lewellen TK, Janes R, Miyaoka RS, Gillispie SG, Park B, Herrmannsfeldt G. A firewire based data acquisition system for small volume positron emission tomographs. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 2005. 260-264. PDF
  • Ling T, Lee K, Miyaoka RS. Performance characteristics of continuous Miniature Crystal Element (cMiCE) detectors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record. 2005. Fajardo, Puerto Rico Proceedings on CD- ROM. PDF
  • Miyaoka RS, Janes ML, Lee K, Park B, Kinahan PE, Lewellen TK. Development of a single detector ring micro crystal element scanner: QuickPET II. Molecular Imaging. 2005. 4-2:117-127. PDF
  • Miyaoka RS, Lewellen TK. Sub-millimeter intrinsic spatial resolution PET detector designs using Geiger-mode avalance photodetectors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 2005. JO3-34:2903-2907. PDF
  • Schmitz RE, Kinahan PE, Harrison RL, Stearns CW and Lewellen TK. Simulation of count-rate performance for a PET scanner with partial collimation. Proceedings of the SPIE, San Diego, CA, (2005): 921-32. To SPIE
  • Schmitz RE, Kinahan PE, Harrison RL, Stearns C, and Lewellen TK. Simulation of count-rate performance for a PET scanner with different degrees of partial collimation. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, (2005): 2506-09. PDF

 

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