Publications

Selected Publications

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Alessio AM, Kohlmyer S, Branch K, Chen G, Caldwell J, Kinahan P. Cine CT for attenuation correction in cardiac PET/CT. J Nuc Med. 2007. 48:5 794-802. PDF

Ling T, Lewellen TK, Miyaoka RS. Depth of interaction decoding of a continuous crystal detector oduel. Pys Med Biol. 2007. 52:2213-2228. PDF

Schmitz RE, Harrison RL, Stearns CW, Lewellen TK, Kinahan PE. Optimization of noise equivalent count rate performane for a partially collimated PET scanner by varying the number of septa. IEEE Trans Med Imag. 2007. 26-7:935-944. PDF

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

Harrison RL. Gillispie SB. Lewellen K . Design and implementation of a block detector simulation in SimSET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 2006. 5:3151-3153. PDF

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

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

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

Miyaoka RS, Janes ML, Lee K, Park B, Kinahan PE, Lewellen TK. Development of a single detector ring micro crystal element scanner: QuickPET II. Molec Imaging. 2005. 4-2:117-127. PDF

Miyaoka RS, Lewellen TK. Sub-millimeter instrinsic spatial resolution PET detector designs using geiger-mode avalance photodetectors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposim Conference Recod. 2005. JO3-34:2903-2907. PDF

Harrison RL. Alessio AM, Kinahan PM, Lewellen TK. Signal to noise ratio in simulations of time-of-flight positron emission tomography. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2004. 7: 4080-4083. PDF

Lewellen TK, Janes M, Miyaoka RS. DMiCE - a depth-of-interaction detector design for PET scanners. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 2004 4:16-20. PDF

Miyaoka RS, Janes ML. Lewellen TK. Optimization of mounting large crystal arrays to photomulitplier tubes. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 2003. 3:2039-2042. PDF

Laymon C, Haynor D, Harrison RL, et al., Evaluation of generalized energy based scatter correction schemes for PET. J Nucl Med. 2001. 42(5):139.

Lewellen TK, Harrison R, Kohlmyer S, Effect of Lower Energy Threshold on Single and Multiple Scatter Distributions in Positron Volume Imaging. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci 2001. 46(4):1129-1135.

Lewellen TK, Miyaoka RS, Laymon C, Kohlmeyer S. Design of a data acquisition system for use in animal PET scanners. J Nucl Med. 2001. 42 Suppl:20-24

Miyaoka RS, Kohlmyer SG, Lewellen TK. A second generation micro crystal element (MiCE2) detector. J Nucl Med. 2001. 42Suppl:102.

Miyaoka RS, Kohlmyer S, Lewellen TK. Performance characteristics of micro crystal element (MiCE) detectors. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci. 2001. 48(4):1403-1407.

Badawi R, Lewellen TK, Harrison R., et al., The Effect of Camera Geometry on Singles Flux, Scatter Fraction, and Trues and Randoms Sensitivity for Cylindrical 3D PET – a Simulation Study. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci. 2000. 47(3):1228-1232.

Harrison R, Vannoy S, Kaplan M, et al. Slat collimation and cylindrical detectors for PET simulations using SimSET, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. 2000. Lyon, France.

Kohlmyer S, Kaplan M, Miyaoka R, et al. Polarization effects on scatter normalization of block detectors in PET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. 2000. Lyon, France.

Lewellen T, Lewellen B, Mankoff D, et al. Comparing the effects of standard and segmented attenuation correction. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. 2000. Lyon, France.

Miyaoka RS, Lewellen TK. Effect of detector scatter on the decoding accuracy of a DOI detector module. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 2000. 47(4):1614-1619.

Kohlmyer SG, Miyaoka RS, Schoner SC, Lewellen TK, Eary J.F Quantitative accuracy of PET imaging with yttrium-86. 1999. J Nucl Med. 1999. 40Suppl:280.

Lewellen T, Harrison R, Kohlmyer S, et al. Investigation of parameters and scanning protocols for model based scatter correction on the GE Advance PET scanner. In Fully 3D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. Belgium. p. 104-107, 1999.

LewellenT, Harrison R, Kohlmyer S. Effect of lower energy threshold on single and multiple scatter distributions in positron volume imaging. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci. 1999. 46:1129-1135.

Miyaoka RS, Lewellen TK, Yu H, McDaniel DL. A depth of interaction PET detector module. J Nucl Med. 1998. 39Suppl:170.

Selected papers related to 3D-PET project (more in press - please ask if interested):

Lartizien C, Kinahan PE, Swensson R, Comtat C, Lin M, Villemagne V, and Trebossen R, Evaluating Image Reconstruction Methods for Tumor Detection in 3-D Whole-Body PET Oncology Imaging. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, vol. 44, pp. 276-290, 2003.

Kim J-S, Kinahan PE, Lartizien C, Comtat C, and Lewellen TK, Performance comparisons of planar and volumetric observers for lesion detection in PET scanning. In: Medical Imaging 2003, San Diego, CA, Feb. 17-20th, 2003. vol. 5034, pp. 89-99, 2003.

Lartizien C, Comtat C, Trebossen R, Kinahan PE, Ferreira N, and Bendriem B, Optimization of the injected dose based on Noise Equivalent Count (NEC) rates for 2D and 3D Whole-Body PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, vol. 43, pp. 1268-1278, 2002.

Lewellen TK, Lewellen BL, Mankoff DA, Kohlmyer SG. Comparing the effects of standard and segmented attenuation correction. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Recod. 2002:15-20.

Bai C, Kinahan PE, Brasse D, Comtat C, and Townsend D, Post-Injection Single Photon Transmission Tomography with Ordered-Subset Algorithms for Wholebody PET Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 49, pp. 74-81, 2002.

Brasse D, Kinahan PE, Casey M, Michel C, Bruckbauer T, Lartizien C, and Comtat C, Correction Methods For Random Coincidences In 3D Wholebody PET Imaging. In: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA. vol. 4, pp. 2080-2084, 2001.

Comtat C, Kinahan PE, Defrise M, Michel C, and Townsend DW, Fast reconstruction of 3D PET data with accurate statistical modeling. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 45, pp. 1083-1089, 1998.

Defrise M, Kinahan PE, Townsend DW, Michel C, Sibomana M, and Newport DF, Exact and approximate rebinning algorithms for 3-D PET data. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 16, pp. 145-158, 1997.

Kinahan PE, Michel C, Defrise M, Townsend DW, Sibomana M, Lonneux M, Newport DF, and Luketich JD, Fast iterative image reconstruction of 3D PET data. In: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Anaheim, CA, November 5-8, pp. 1918-1922, 1996.