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ArticlePhysics in medicine and biology2025

A data-driven approach for spatial alignment of PET add-on detectors with sub-millimeter accuracy.

Yunlai Chen, Ling Cai, Sergey Komarov, Joseph A O'Sullivan, Yuan-Chuan Tai

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Article in Physics in medicine and biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Development of a Prototype AWSM-PET Device for Augmented Whole-Body PET Imaging and Initial Human Study.Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yunlai ChenImaging Science Doctoral Program, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-5668-4478
Ling CaiImaging Science Doctoral Program, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States of America.
Sergey KomarovMallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States of America.
Joseph A O'SullivanImaging Science Doctoral Program, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States of America.
Yuan-Chuan TaiImaging Science Doctoral Program, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-8144-4636

Funding

Translation of virtual-pinhole magnifying PET technology to clinical whole-body cancer imagingR01CA233912 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI TAI, YUAN-CHUAN · 2019 to 2023
$2.6M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA233912
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Positron-Emission TomographyImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMonte Carlo MethodPhantoms, Imagingadd-on detectorsAWSM-PETgeometry estimationPET scannerspatial alignment

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PMID40774294
PMCPMC12765418

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