Dr. Richard Laforest Profile

Dr. Richard Laforest

at Washington Univ School of Medicine in St Louis

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Publications (6)

Proceedings Article | 7 April 2023 Presentation + Paper

Optimal dynamic step and shoot temporal design for quantitative multi-organ dynamic PET imaging

Suya Li, Richard Laforest, Timothy Whitehead, Yuan-Chuan Tai, Kooresh Shoghi

Proceedings Volume 12463, 124631H (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2654467

KEYWORDS: Positron emission tomography, Biological imaging, Imaging systems, Scanners, Design and modelling, Received signal strength, Simulations, Matrices

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Proceedings Article | 4 April 2022 Presentation + Paper

Deep learning framework to synthesize high-count preclinical PET images from low-count preclinical PET images

Kaushik Dutta, Ziping Liu, Richard Laforest, Abhinav Jha, Kooresh Isaac Shoghi

Proceedings Volume 12031, 120311F (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2612729

KEYWORDS: Positron emission tomography, Photons, Tumors, Data modeling, Signal to noise ratio, Liver, Denoising, Reconstruction algorithms, Image quality, Visualization, Image denoising

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SPIE Journal Paper | 20 September 2021

Evaluation of attenuation correction in PET/MRI with synthetic lesion insertion

Mahdjoub Hamdi, Yutaka Natsuaki, Kristen Wangerin, Hongyu An, Sarah St. James, Paul Kinahan, John Sunderland, Peder E. Larson, Thomas Hope, Richard Laforest

JMI, Vol. 8, Issue 05, 056001, (September 2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JMI.8.5.056001

KEYWORDS: Signal attenuation, Error control coding, Scanners, Positron emission tomography, Brain, Magnetic resonance imaging, Bone, Neuroimaging, Image segmentation, Optical spheres

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Proceedings Article | 15 February 2021 Presentation + Paper

Observer study-based evaluation of a stochastic and physics-based method to generate oncological PET images

Ziping Liu, Richard Laforest, Joyce Mhlanga, Tyler Fraum, Malak Itani, Farrokh Dehdashti, Barry Siegel, Abhinav Jha

Proceedings Volume 11599, 1159905 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2582765

KEYWORDS: Positron emission tomography, Tumors, Stochastic processes, Image segmentation, Radiotherapy

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Proceedings Article | 15 February 2021 Presentation + Paper

A physics and learning-based transmission-less attenuation compensation method for SPECT

Zitong Yu, Md Ashequr Rahman, Thomas Schindler, Richard Laforest, Abhinav Jha

Proceedings Volume 11595, 1159512 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2582350

KEYWORDS: Signal attenuation, Single photon emission computed tomography, Physics, Computed tomography, Visualization, Brain mapping, Photons, Image segmentation, Defect detection, Data acquisition

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Proceedings Article | 20 February 2018 Paper

Dual-radiolabeled nanoparticle probes for depth-independent in vivo imaging of enzyme activation

Kvar C. L. Black, Mingzhou Zhou, Pinaki Sarder, Maryna Kuchuk, Amal Al-Yasiri, Sean Gunsten, Kexian Liang, Heather Hennkens, Walter Akers, Richard Laforest, Steven Brody, Cathy Cutler, Samuel Achilefu

Proceedings Volume 10508, 1050805 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2301033

KEYWORDS: Gold, Single photon emission computed tomography, Nanocrystals, Nanoparticles, In vivo imaging, Lung, Metals, Signal detection

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