Joint Reconstruction of the Activity and the Attenuation in PET by Diffusion Posterior Sampling: a Feasibility Study

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Autori principali: Phung-Ngoc, Clémentine, Bousse, Alexandre, De Paepe, Antoine, Dang, Hong-Phuong, Saut, Olivier, Visvikis, Dimitris
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Phung-Ngoc, Clémentine
Bousse, Alexandre
De Paepe, Antoine
Dang, Hong-Phuong
Saut, Olivier
Visvikis, Dimitris
author_facet Phung-Ngoc, Clémentine
Bousse, Alexandre
De Paepe, Antoine
Dang, Hong-Phuong
Saut, Olivier
Visvikis, Dimitris
contents This study introduces a novel framework for joint reconstruction of the activity and the attenuation (JRAA) in positron emission tomography (PET) using diffusion posterior sampling (DPS). By leveraging diffusion models (DMs), this approach directly addresses activity-attenuation dependencies, mitigating crosstalk issues prevalent in non-time-of-flight (TOF) settings. Experimental evaluations, conducted using 2-dimensional (2-D) XCAT phantom data, demonstrate that DPS significantly outperforms traditional maximum likelihood activity and attenuation (MLAA) methods, producing consistent and high-quality reconstructions even in the absence of TOF information. Ongoing work aims to extend our method to real 3-dimensional (3-D) data with encouraging preliminary findings.
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spellingShingle Joint Reconstruction of the Activity and the Attenuation in PET by Diffusion Posterior Sampling: a Feasibility Study
Phung-Ngoc, Clémentine
Bousse, Alexandre
De Paepe, Antoine
Dang, Hong-Phuong
Saut, Olivier
Visvikis, Dimitris
Medical Physics
This study introduces a novel framework for joint reconstruction of the activity and the attenuation (JRAA) in positron emission tomography (PET) using diffusion posterior sampling (DPS). By leveraging diffusion models (DMs), this approach directly addresses activity-attenuation dependencies, mitigating crosstalk issues prevalent in non-time-of-flight (TOF) settings. Experimental evaluations, conducted using 2-dimensional (2-D) XCAT phantom data, demonstrate that DPS significantly outperforms traditional maximum likelihood activity and attenuation (MLAA) methods, producing consistent and high-quality reconstructions even in the absence of TOF information. Ongoing work aims to extend our method to real 3-dimensional (3-D) data with encouraging preliminary findings.
title Joint Reconstruction of the Activity and the Attenuation in PET by Diffusion Posterior Sampling: a Feasibility Study
topic Medical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11776