Advanced heart failure (AHF) presents a complex landscape with challenges spanning diagnosis, management, and patient outcomes. In response, the integration of multimodality imaging techniques has emerged as a pivotal approach. This comprehensive rev...
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In terahertz imaging systems based on Gaussian beam active illumination and focal plane array detectors, severe image distortion has been observed, which significantly reduces the resolving power of the imaging system. To solve this problem, a novel...
With stress echo (SE) 2020 study, a new standard of practice in stress imaging was developed and disseminated: the ABCDE protocol for functional testing within and beyond CAD. ABCDE protocol was the fruit of SE 2020, and is the seed of SE 2030, which...
Stress echo (SE) 2030 study is an international, prospective, multicenter cohort study that will include >10,000 patients from ≥20 centers from ≥10 countries. It represents the logical and chronological continuation of the SE 2020 study, which dev...
Due to the light scattered by atmospheric aerosols, the amplitude image contrast is degraded and the depth measurement is greatly distorted for time-of-flight (ToF) imaging in fog. The problem limits ToF imaging to be applied in outdoor settings, suc...
Background: Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) is an emerging molecular imaging technique. However, since X-space reconstruction ignores system properties, it can lead to blurring of the reconstructed image, posing challenges for accurate quantification...
The National Cancer Institute's Quantitative Imaging Network (QIN) has thrived over the past 12 years with an emphasis on the development of image-based decision support software tools for improving measurements of imaging metrics. An overarching goa...
Nuclear imaging techniques, primarily including positron emission tomography and single-photon emission computed tomography, can provide quantitative information for a biological event in vivo with ultrahigh sensitivity; however, the comparatively lo...
Genetically encoded fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) reporters are powerful tools for analyzing cell signaling and function at single-cell resolution in standard 2D cell cultures, but these reporters rarely have been applied to 3D enviro...
Electromagnetic nondestructive tests are important and widely used within the field of nondestructive evaluation (NDE). The recent advances in sensing technology, hardware and software development dedicated to imaging and image processing, and materi...
Background: In the present study, we retrospectively evaluated the use of tomographic imaging in adult cancer patients to clarify how recent growth plateaus in the use of tomographic imaging in the United States might have affected oncologic imaging...
Nanomedicines have been a major research focus in the past two decades and are increasingly emerging in a broad range of clinical applications. However, a proper understanding of their biodistribution is required to further progress the field of nano...
Neutron Imaging (NI) has been developed in the last decades from a film-based inspection method for non-destructive observations towards a powerful research tool with many new and competitive methods. The most important technical step forward has bee...
Medical imaging instrumentation is mostly based on the use of luminescent materials coupled to optical sensors. These materials are employed in the form of granular screens, structured crystals, single transparent crystals, ceramics, etc. Storage pho...
The molecular imaging of biomarkers plays an increasing role in medical diagnostics. In particular, the imaging of enzyme activity is a promising approach, as it enables the use of its inherent catalytic activity for the amplification of an imaging s...
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Angiogenesis, the growth of new capillary blood vessels, is central to the growth of tumors. Non-invasive imaging of tumor angiogenesis will allow for earlier detection of tumors and also the development of surrogate markers for assessing response to...
Omnidirectional imaging technology has been widely used for scene archiving. It has been a crucial technology in many fields including computer vision, image analysis and virtual reality. It should be noted that the dynamic range of luminance values...
Contextual design and selection of MRI protocols is critical for making an accurate diagnosis given the wide variety of clinical indications for spine imaging in children. Here, we describe our pediatric spine imaging protocols in detail, tailored to...
This paper comprehensively reviews the emerging topic of optoacoustic imaging from the image reconstruction and quantification perspective. Optoacoustic imaging combines highly attractive features, including rich contrast and high versatility in sen...
Molecular imaging is paving the way towards noninvasive detection, staging, and treatment follow-up of diseases such as cancer and inflammation-related conditions. Monoclonal antibodies have long been one of the staples of molecular imaging tracer de...
Positron emission tomography (PET) combined with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a hybrid technology which has recently gained interest as a potential cancer imaging tool. Compared with CT, MRI is advantageous due to its lack of ionizing radiatio...
Radiation dose of computed tomography liver perfusion imaging can be reduced by collecting fewer x-ray projections in each gantry rotation, but the resulting aliasing artifacts could affect the hepatic perfusion measurement. We investigated the effec...
Underwater optical imaging is essential for exploring the underwater environment to provide information for planning and regulating underwater activities in various underwater applications, such as aquaculture farm observation, underwater topographic...
Precision medicine is a healthcare model that seeks to incorporate a wealth of patient information to identify and classify disease progression and to provide tailored therapeutic solutions for individual patients. Interventions are based on knowledg...
To translate near-infrared (NIR) and shortwave infrared (SWIR) fluorescence imaging into the clinic, the paired imaging device needs to detect trace doses of fluorescent imaging agents. Except for the filtration scheme and excitation light source, th...
Microvascular disease is frequently found in major pathologies affecting vital organs, such as the brain, heart, and kidneys. While imaging modalities, such as ultrasound, computed tomography, single photon emission computed tomography, and magnetic...
Preclinical imaging is a critical component in translational research with significant complexities in workflow and site differences in deployment. Importantly, the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) precision medicine initiative emphasizes the...
Imaging is becoming increasingly important for the diagnosis of large vessel vasculitis (LVV). Atherosclerosis may be difficult to distinguish from LVV on imaging as both are inflammatory conditions of the arterial wall. Differentiating atheroscleros...
In recent years, underwater imaging and vision technologies have received widespread attention, and the removal of the backward-scattering interference caused by impurities in the water has become a long-term research focus for scholars. With the adv...
Imaging of infections has the potential to improve clinical outcomes, but pathogen-specific imaging strategies are currently unavailable. Given their target specificity, antimicrobials may be useful as molecular imaging ligands to target infections....
Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) has been a key driver of groundbreaking discoveries in a number of fields since its inception more than 50 years ago. Recently, MSI development trends have shifted towards ambient MSI (AMSI) as the removal of sample-pr...
Methods: Keyword searches of Medline, PubMed, and the Cochrane Library for manuscripts published in English, and searches of references cited in selected articles to identify additional relevant papers. Abstracts sponsored by various societies includ...
Primary cardiac tumors (PCTs) are rare, with benign PCTs being relatively common in approximately 75% of all PCTs. Benign PCTs are usually asymptomatic, and they are found incidentally by imaging. Even if patients present with symptoms, they are usua...
Nuclear imaging is a powerful non-invasive imaging technique that is rapidly developing in medical theranostics. Nuclear imaging requires radiolabeling isotopes for non-invasive imaging through the radioactive decay emission of the radionuclide. Nucl...
Medical imaging instrumentation design and construction is based on radiation sources and radiation detectors/sensors. This review focuses on the detectors and sensors of medical imaging systems. These systems are subdivided into various categories d...
Terahertz focal plane array imaging methods, direct camera imaging and conventional light field imaging methods are incapable of resolving and separating layers of multilayer objects. In this paper, for the purpose of fast, high-resolution and layer-...
Hand-held near-infrared (NIR) optical imagers are developed by various researchers towards non-invasive clinical breast imaging. Unlike these existing imagers that can perform only reflectance imaging, a generation-2 (Gen-2) hand-held optical imager...
We show non-invasive 3D plant disease imaging using automated monocular vision-based structure from motion. We optimize the number of key points in an image pair by using a small angular step size and detection in the extra green channel. Furthermore...
Background: Gadolinium (Gd)-enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is crucial in several applications, including oncology, cardiac imaging, and musculoskeletal inflammatory imaging. One use case is rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a widespread autoimmun...
The most effective diagnostic methods in the medical field are diagnostic imaging techniques such as radiography, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and nuclear medicine, which are used to visualize internal body to diagnose...
The Quantitative Imaging Network of the National Cancer Institute is in its 10th year of operation, and research teams within the network are developing and validating clinical decision support software tools to measure or predict the response of can...
Objective: This study aimed to assess the impact of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven noise reduction algorithms on metal artifacts and image quality parameters in cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images of the oral cavity. Materials and Method...
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