scholarly journals Double-pass wavefront shaping for scatter correction in a cataract's model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alba Paniagua-Diaz ◽  
Alfonso Jimenez Villar ◽  
Ireneusz Grulkowski ◽  
Pablo Artal
2004 ◽  
Vol 43 (06) ◽  
pp. 185-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. T. Kuikka

Summary Aim: Serotonin transporter (SERT) imaging can be used to study the role of regional abnormalities of neurotransmitter release in various mental disorders and to study the mechanism of action of therapeutic drugs or drugs’ abuse. We examine the quantitative accuracy and reproducibility that can be achieved with high-resolution SPECT of serotonergic neurotransmission. Method: Binding potential (BP) of 123I labeled tracer specific for midbrain SERT was assessed in 20 healthy persons. The effects of scatter, attenuation, partial volume, mis-registration and statistical noise were estimated using phantom and human studies. Results: Without any correction, BP was underestimated by 73%. The partial volume error was the major component in this underestimation whereas the most critical error for the reproducibility was misplacement of region of interest (ROI). Conclusion: The proper ROI registration, the use of the multiple head gamma camera with transmission based scatter correction introduce more relevant results. However, due to the small dimensions of the midbrain SERT structures and poor spatial resolution of SPECT, the improvement without the partial volume correction is not great enough to restore the estimate of BP to that of the true one.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.V.N. Lakshmi ◽  
Palanisamy Muthukumar ◽  
Dr.Apurba Layek ◽  
Abhimanyu Kumar Singh ◽  
Sushoban Das

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (7) ◽  
pp. 071104
Author(s):  
D. Barton ◽  
M. Lawrence ◽  
J. Dionne

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (15) ◽  
pp. 1836
Author(s):  
Bo-Hye Choi ◽  
Donghwi Hwang ◽  
Seung-Kwan Kang ◽  
Kyeong-Yun Kim ◽  
Hongyoon Choi ◽  
...  

The lack of physically measured attenuation maps (μ-maps) for attenuation and scatter correction is an important technical challenge in brain-dedicated stand-alone positron emission tomography (PET) scanners. The accuracy of the calculated attenuation correction is limited by the nonuniformity of tissue composition due to pathologic conditions and the complex structure of facial bones. The aim of this study is to develop an accurate transmission-less attenuation correction method for amyloid-β (Aβ) brain PET studies. We investigated the validity of a deep convolutional neural network trained to produce a CT-derived μ-map (μ-CT) from simultaneously reconstructed activity and attenuation maps using the MLAA (maximum likelihood reconstruction of activity and attenuation) algorithm for Aβ brain PET. The performance of three different structures of U-net models (2D, 2.5D, and 3D) were compared. The U-net models generated less noisy and more uniform μ-maps than MLAA μ-maps. Among the three different U-net models, the patch-based 3D U-net model reduced noise and cross-talk artifacts more effectively. The Dice similarity coefficients between the μ-map generated using 3D U-net and μ-CT in bone and air segments were 0.83 and 0.67. All three U-net models showed better voxel-wise correlation of the μ-maps compared to MLAA. The patch-based 3D U-net model was the best. While the uptake value of MLAA yielded a high percentage error of 20% or more, the uptake value of 3D U-nets yielded the lowest percentage error within 5%. The proposed deep learning approach that requires no transmission data, anatomic image, or atlas/template for PET attenuation correction remarkably enhanced the quantitative accuracy of the simultaneously estimated MLAA μ-maps from Aβ brain PET.


Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 655-665
Author(s):  
Stephanie C. Malek ◽  
Adam C. Overvig ◽  
Sajan Shrestha ◽  
Nanfang Yu

AbstractActively tunable and reconfigurable wavefront shaping by optical metasurfaces poses a significant technical challenge often requiring unconventional materials engineering and nanofabrication. Most wavefront-shaping metasurfaces can be considered “local” in that their operation depends on the responses of individual meta-units. In contrast, “nonlocal” metasurfaces function based on the modes supported by many adjacent meta-units, resulting in sharp spectral features but typically no spatial control of the outgoing wavefront. Recently, nonlocal metasurfaces based on quasi-bound states in the continuum have been shown to produce designer wavefronts only across the narrow bandwidth of the supported Fano resonance. Here, we leverage the enhanced light-matter interactions associated with sharp Fano resonances to explore the active modulation of optical spectra and wavefronts by refractive-index tuning and mechanical stretching. We experimentally demonstrate proof-of-principle thermo-optically tuned nonlocal metasurfaces made of silicon and numerically demonstrate nonlocal metasurfaces that thermo-optically switch between distinct wavefront shapes. This meta-optics platform for thermally reconfigurable wavefront shaping requires neither unusual materials and fabrication nor active control of individual meta-units.


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