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  • Medical Imaging
  • Nuclear Physics
  • Biomedical Engineering

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  • Multi-modality imaging is crucial for complex diagnoses and treatments.
  • A hybrid system combining computed tomography (CT), nuclear imaging, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is highly desired for precision medicine.
  • Current hybrid approaches using polarized radiotracers and MRI offer high sensitivity and resolution but lack attenuation imaging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a method for simultaneous reconstruction of emission and transmission parameters using MRI-modulated gamma-ray data.
  • To advance toward a simultaneous CT-SPECT-MRI system.
  • To provide accurate spatiotemporal registration of morphological and molecular information.

Main Methods:

  • Acquisition of synchronized datasets combining nuclear imaging with polarized radiotracers and MRI-based spatial encoding.
  • Exploiting the directional preference of gamma-rays from polarized nuclei.
  • Formulation of tomographic reconstruction for simultaneous emission and transmission imaging, including region of interest (ROI) analysis.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated feasibility of reconstructing both emission and transmission data simultaneously.
  • Achieved accurate spatiotemporal registration of morphological and molecular imaging data.
  • Numerical results support the proposed approach for hybrid imaging.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed method is a significant step towards integrated CT-SPECT-MRI systems.
  • Simultaneous reconstruction of emission and transmission parameters enhances the utility of hybrid imaging.
  • This technique holds promise for advancing precision medicine through comprehensive in-vivo imaging.