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    Area of Science:

    • Medical Imaging
    • Nuclear Medicine
    • Computational Science

    Background:

    • Dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) relies on accurate parametric imaging for myocardial perfusion assessment.
    • Direct parametric reconstruction methods offer advantages in modeling Poisson noise but face challenges with noise propagation.
    • Existing methods often require post-filtering or regularization, which can introduce bias or limit resolution.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce a dictionary learning (DL) based denoiser to improve direct parametric reconstruction in dynamic PET.
    • To evaluate the noise and bias performance of the proposed DL-regularized direct reconstruction algorithm.
    • To compare the DL-based method against conventional direct and indirect reconstruction techniques.

    Main Methods:

    • Incorporation of a DL-based sparse representation as a regularization term for K1 estimation during direct reconstruction.
    • Rewriting the DL regularizer into a voxel-separable form for efficient decoupling of curve fitting and dynamic frame reconstruction.
    • Utilizing a damped Newton method with uniform initialization to solve the nonlinear fitting problem.
    • Validation using simulated and 82Rb dynamic PET patient data, comparing against various reconstruction methods.

    Main Results:

    • The DL-regularized direct reconstruction demonstrated superior noise-versus-bias performance in K1 parametric images.
    • The method showed improved recovery of reduced myocardial blood flow defects compared to other techniques.
    • Dictionaries learned from self-created images performed comparably to those from MRI-derived data.
    • Uniform initializations yielded K1 estimations similar to those obtained with indirect reconstruction initialization.

    Conclusions:

    • Dictionary learning constrained direct parametric reconstruction shows significant potential for enhancing quantitative accuracy in dynamic PET imaging.
    • The proposed method effectively suppresses noise propagation, leading to more reliable parametric image estimates.
    • This approach offers a promising advancement for myocardial perfusion imaging using dynamic PET.