Motion Corrected Quantitative Imaging in Multimodal Emission Tomography Abstract Nuclear medicine has been using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) for several decades in order to diagnose and enable the treatment of patients for various clinical applications. Traditionally, r...

Dynamic Interventional Perfusion Imaging: Reconstruction Algorithms and Clinical Evaluation Abstract Acute ischaemic stroke is a major cause for death and disabilities with increasing prevalence in aging societies. Novel interventional stroke treatment procedures have the potential to improve...

High Performance Iterative X-Ray CT with Application in 3-D Mammography and Interventional C-arm Imaging Systems Abstract Medical image reconstruction is a key component for a broad range of medical imaging technologies. For classical Computed Tomography systems the amount of measured signals...

Rigid and Non-Rigid Surface Registration for Range Imaging Applications in Medicine Abstract The introduction of low-cost range imaging technologies that are capable of acquiring the three-dimensional geometry of an observed scene in an accurate, dense, and dynamic manner holds great potentia...

Respiratory Self-Navigation for Whole-Heart Coronary Magnetic Resonance Imaging Abstract As the average life span of the world population increases, cardiovascular diseases firmly establish themselves as the most frequent cause of death in many of the developed countries. Coronary artery dise...

Boosting Methods for Automatic Segmentation of Focal Liver Lesions Abstract Over the past decades, huge progress has been made in treatme nt of cancer, decreasing fatality rates despite a growing number of cases. Technical achievements had a big share in this development. With modern image ac...

3-D Imaging of the Heart Chambers with C-arm CT Abstract Nowadays, angiography is the gold standard for the visualization of the morphology of the cardiac vasculature and cardiac chambers in the interventional suite. Up to now, high resolution 2-D X-ray images are acquired with a C-arm system...

Accelerated Non-contrast-enhanced Morphological and Functional Magnetic Resonance Angiography Abstract Cardiovascular diseases such as stroke, stenosis, peripheral or renal artery disease require accurate angiographic visualization techniques both for diagnosis and treatment planning. Beside ...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Percutaneous Interventions Abstract The fundamental motivation for all percutaneous interventions is to improve patient care by reducing the invasiveness of the procedure. An increasing number of percutaneous interventions from biopsies, targeted drug delivery t...

Automatic Classification of Cerebral Gliomas by Means of Quantitative Emission Tomography and Multimodal Imaging Abstract Cerebral gliomas represent a common type of cancer of the human brain with many tumor grades which express a huge diversity in growth characteristics and have a highly var...