NEWS – Qi Lab

2019-12-13
- Congratulations to Nimu for his paper on Convolutional neural network enhancement of fast-scan low-dose cone-beam CT images for head and neck radiotherapy accepted by Physics in Medicine and Biology!
2019-12-10
- Congratulations to Li Cheng for his paper on Maximum likelihood activity and attenuation estimation using both emission and transmission data with application to utilization of LSO background radiation in TOF PET accepted by Medical Physics!
2019-8-10
- Our review paper on machine learning in positron emission tomography accepted by Proceeding of IEEE! Read it here
2019-7-14
- Xuezhu’s award winning paper published by JNM, the first paper demonstrating total-body dynamic PET and parametric imaging! Read it here
2019-6-25
- Congratulations to Xuezhu for receiving the Henry N. Wagner, Jr., MD, Best Paper Award at the SNMMI annual meeting!

2019-6-4
- Congratulations to Tiantian, Nimu, and Zhaoheng for their oral presentations at the Fully 3D Conference.
- Congratulations to Tiantian for receiving the Women in Engineering Award!
2019-3-7
- Chih-Chieh’s paper on Higher SNR PET image prediction using a deep learning model and MRI image published by PMB.
2018-10-18
- Kuang’s paper on PET image denoising using CNN and fine tuning accepted by IEEE TRPMS.
2018-09-08
- Kuang’s paper on Iterative PET image reconstruction using CNN representation accepted by IEEE TMI (2017 Impact Factor 6.131).
2018-06-01
- Congratulations to Xuezhu for his 2nd EXPLORER paper accepted by PMB!
2018-02-20
- Xuezhu’s Tachyon-I TOF PET paper accepted by PMB. Link
2017-12-22
- Xuezhu’s EXPLORER paper ranked #1 among PMB’s top 10 downloaded papers of 2017 and #2 among the Top 10 Subscription Articles from IOP Publishing with over 16,600 downloads!
2017-11-27
- Congratulations to Mengxi for successfully passing his defense!
2017-11-16
- Two more papers to appear in IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging
  1. MR-guided direct Patlak reconstruction for dynamic PET
  2. Hybrid pre-log and post-log image reconstruction for CT
2017-08-01
- Kuang’s paper featured on IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging

2017-05-01
- Congratulations to Kuang for successfully passing his defense!
2017-04-06
- Mengxi’s paper accepted by PMB. Congratulations!
2017-03-09
- Congratulations to Xuezhu and Kuang for their papers accepted by the Fully 3D Image Reconstruction Conference in Xian, China!
2017-03-07
- Medical Physics Web published a report on Xuezhu’s EXPLORER paper.
  - Simulations unveil potential of EXPLORER PET
2017-02-28
- Xuezhu’s paper on quantitative image reconstruction for EXPLORER is published in PMB and is chosen as a Free Article by the journal. (download link)
  - Read the press release at ScientistLive.com (U.K.): Researchers move a step closer to first full-body PET scanner
2016-12-16
- Kuang’s paper on PET Helmet scanner design and performance evaluation has been chosen as a Featured article, and reported in medicalphysicsweb and healthimaging! It ranked #4 among PMB top 10 of 2016!