Subsecond total-body imaging using ultrasensitive positron emission tomography

X Zhang, SR Cherry, Z Xie, H Shi… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
A 194-cm-long total-body positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT)
scanner (uEXPLORER), has been constructed to offer a transformative platform for human …

Generative adversarial network based regularized image reconstruction for PET

Z Xie, R Baikejiang, T Li, X Zhang… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) is an ill-posed inverse problem and suffers high noise
due to limited number of detected events. Prior information can be used to improve the …

Total-body dynamic reconstruction and parametric imaging on the uEXPLORER

X Zhang, Z Xie, E Berg, MS Judenhofer… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2020 - Soc Nuclear Med
The world’s first 194-cm-long total-body PET/CT scanner (uEXPLORER) has been built by
the EXPLORER Consortium to offer a transformative platform for human molecular imaging in …

PCNet: Prior Category Network for CT Universal Segmentation Model

…, L Zhu, W Shao, Y Lu, H Han, Z Xie - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures in Computed Tomography (CT) images is
crucial for clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. The present deep …

Anatomically aided PET image reconstruction using deep neural networks

Z Xie, T Li, X Zhang, W Qi, E Asma, J Qi - Medical physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The developments of PET/CT and PET/MR scanners provide opportunities for
improving PET image quality by using anatomical information. In this paper, we propose a novel …

H2RSPET: a 0.5 mm resolution high-sensitivity small-animal PET scanner, a simulation study

Y Lai, Q Wang, S Zhou, Z Xie, J Qi… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
With the goal of developing a total-body small-animal PET system with a high spatial
resolution of∼ 0.5 mm and a high sensitivity> 10% for mouse/rat studies, we simulated four …

A novel neuroprotective method against ischemic stroke by accelerating the drainage of brain interstitial fluid

…, F Cheng, J Yan, Y Fu, W Fu, Z Xie… - Science China Life …, 2024 - Springer
Ischemic stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Inflammatory response
after stroke determines the outcome of ischemic injury. A recent study has reported an …

Ultrasonic Image's Annotation Removal: A Self-supervised Noise2Noise Approach

Y Zhang, N Jiang, Z Xie, J Cao, Y Teng - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.04133, 2023 - arxiv.org
Accurately annotated ultrasonic images are vital components of a high-quality medical report.
Hospitals often have strict guidelines on the types of annotations that should appear on …

Generative learning-based lightweight MRI brain tumor segmentation with missing modalities

X Zhang, Q Chen, H He, L Zhu, Z Xie, Y Lu… - Expert Systems with …, 2025 - Elsevier
Accurate segmentation of brain tumors across multiple MRI modalities is crucial for clinical
diagnosis and prognosis. However, encountering missing modalities due to practical factors …

Unsupervised deep learning framework for data‐driven gating in positron emission tomography

T Li, Z Xie, W Qi, E Asma, J Qi - Medical physics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Physiological motion, such as respiratory motion, has become a limiting factor
in the spatial resolution of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging as the resolution of …