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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2022
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, CN;
Huafeng Liu, Hangzhou, CN;
Bo Wang, Hangzhou, CN;
ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, Hangzhou, CN;
Abstract
The present invention discloses a PET system attenuation correction method based on a flow model. The flow model adopted is a completely reversible model, the forward and reverse mappings share the same parameters, and the structure itself is a consistency constraint. The model utilizes the spatial correlation of adjacent slices, and adopts the structure of multi-slice input and single-slice output. The model consists of multiple reversible blocks, each of which consists of a enhanced affine coupling layer and a reversible 1×1 convolutional layer, and uses several small u-nets to learn the transformation parameters of the enhanced affine coupling layer. The present invention avoids additional CT or MR scanning, saves scanning cost for the patient, and reduces the damage of CT radiation to the patient; compared with similar methods, higher quality non-attenuation-corrected PET image can be obtained.