Keywords
Medical Physics; Nuclear Medicine; Positron-Emission Tomography; Tomography, Emission-Computed
Research group(s)
- QIMP group
Head: Thomas Beyer, PhD, MBA
Research Area: Quantitative, combined imaging (PET/CT, PET/MR, SPECT/CT); Supporting clinical adoption of fully integrated PET/MRI; Image-based phenotyping and texture analysis
Members:
Research interests
Research on quantification and standardization of nuclear medicine imaging data with a focus on multi-modality imaging devices. This includes in particular PET/CT and PET/MRI systems.
Techniques, methods & infrastructure
PET/CT, PET/MRI, SPECT/CT
Selected publications
- Rausch, I. et al., 2017. Technical and instrumentational foundations of PET/MRI. European Journal of Radiology, 2017;94:A3-A13. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2017.04.004.
- Rausch, I. et al., 2017. PET/MRI for oncological brain imaging: A comparison of standard MR-based attenuation corrections with a novel, model-based approach for the Siemens mMR PET/MR system. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2017;58:1519-1525. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.116.186148.
- Rausch, I. et al., 2016. Reproducibility of MRI Dixon-Based Attenuation Correction in Combined PET/MR with Applications for Lean Body Mass Estimation. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2016;57:1096-1101. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.115.168294.
- Rausch, I. et al., 2015. Performance evaluation of the Biograph mCT Flow PET/CT system according to the NEMA NU2-2012 standard. EJNMMI Physics, 2015;2(1). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40658-015-0132-1.
- Rausch, I. et al., 2014. Variation of system performance, quality control standards and adherence to international FDG-PET/CT imaging guidelines. Nuklearmedizin, 2017;53:242-248. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3413/nukmed-0665-14-05.