Abstract
Abstract
Background
Simultaneous dual-tracer positron emission tomography (PET) imaging can observe two molecular targets in a single scan, which is conducive to disease diagnosis and tracking. Since the signals emitted by different tracers are the same, it is crucial to separate each single tracer from the mixed signals. The current study proposed a novel deep learning-based method to reconstruct single-tracer activity distributions from the dual-tracer sinogram.
Methods
We proposed the Multi-task CNN, a three-dimensional convolutional neural network (CNN) based on a framework of multi-task learning. One common encoder extracted features from the dual-tracer dynamic sinogram, followed by two distinct and parallel decoders which reconstructed the single-tracer dynamic images of two tracers separately. The model was evaluated by mean squared error (MSE), multiscale structural similarity (MS-SSIM) index and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) on simulated data and real animal data, and compared to the filtered back-projection method based on deep learning (FBP-CNN).
Results
In the simulation experiments, the Multi-task CNN reconstructed single-tracer images with lower MSE, higher MS-SSIM and PSNR than FBP-CNN, and was more robust to the changes in individual difference, tracer combination and scanning protocol. In the experiment of rats with an orthotopic xenograft glioma model, the Multi-task CNN reconstructions also showed higher qualities than FBP-CNN reconstructions.
Conclusions
The proposed Multi-task CNN could effectively reconstruct the dynamic activity images of two single tracers from the dual-tracer dynamic sinogram, which was potential in the direct reconstruction for real simultaneous dual-tracer PET imaging data in future.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province
Talent Program of Zhejiang Province
National Key Research and Development Program of China
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
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