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Klauser A, Strasser B, Thapa B, Lazeyras F, Andronesi O. Achieving high-resolution 1H-MRSI of the human brain with compressed-sensing and low-rank reconstruction at 7 Tesla. J Magn Reson 2021; 331:107048. [PMID: 34438355 PMCID: PMC8717865 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2021.107048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2021] [Revised: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
Abstract
Low sensitivity MR techniques such as magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) greatly benefit from the gain in signal-to-noise provided by ultra-high field MR. High-resolution and whole-slab brain MRSI remains however very challenging due to lengthy acquisition, low signal, lipid contamination and field inhomogeneity. In this study, we propose an acquisition-reconstruction scheme that combines 1H free-induction-decay (FID)-MRSI sequence, short TR acquisition, compressed sensing acceleration and low-rank modeling with total-generalized-variation constraint to achieve metabolite imaging in two and three dimensions at 7 Tesla. The resulting images and volumes reveal highly detailed distributions that are specific to each metabolite and follow the underlying brain anatomy. The MRSI method was validated in a high-resolution phantom containing fine metabolite structures, and in five healthy volunteers. This new application of compressed sensing acceleration paves the way for high-resolution MRSI in clinical setting with acquisition times of 5 min for 2D MRSI at 2.5 mm and of 20 min for 3D MRSI at 3.3 mm isotropic.
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Affiliation(s)
- Antoine Klauser
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), Geneva, Switzerland.
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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Blaise H, Remen T, Ambarki K, Weiland E, Kuehn B, Orry X, Laurent V. Comparison of respiratory-triggered 3D MR cholangiopancreatography and breath-hold compressed-sensing 3D MR cholangiopancreatography at 1.5 T and 3 T and impact of individual factors on image quality. Eur J Radiol 2021; 142:109873. [PMID: 34371309 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2021.109873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Revised: 07/02/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
PURPOSE To evaluate the image quality of an accelerated compressed-sensing single-breath-hold 3D magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (BH-CS-MRCP) prototype sequence compared to the standard 3D sequence with respiratory triggering (STD-MRCP) at 1.5 T and 3 T. To assess the individual factors that can affect image quality. METHOD This is a retrospective analysis. Both sequences (BH-CS-MRCP and STD-MRCP) were performed in 200 patients at 1.5 T and 200 patients at 3 T. Overall image quality and the visualization of the bilio-pancreatic ducts were rated on a 5-point scale. Image sharpness and background suppression were rated on a 4-point scale. A double reading was performed in 50 patients to assess the inter-observer reproducibility. Individual characteristics studied were gender, age, BMI, ascites, abdominal surface and breath-hold quality. RESULTS At 1.5 T, BH-CS-MRCP was inferior to STD-MRCP in terms of overall quality (p = 0.0046), background suppression (p < 0.0001), visualization of the cystic duct (p < 0.0001), the right bile duct (p = 0.0008), the left bile duct (p = 0.0152), and the main pancreatic duct (p < 0.0001). However, BH-CS-MRCP was sharper than STD-MRCP (p = 0.028). At 3 T, BH-CS-MRCP was superior to STD-MRCP for overall quality (p < 0.0001), sharpness (p < 0.0001), and visualization of the bilio-pancreatic ducts (p < 0.0001). Background signal was conversely better suppressed in STD-MRCP (p < 0.0001). At 1.5 T, the volume of ascites was inversely correlated with image quality for BH-CS-MRCP while BMI was inversely correlated with image quality for STD-MRCP. Breath-hold quality was correlated with image quality for BH-CS-MRCP at 1.5 T and 3 T. CONCLUSION BH-CS-MRCP is feasible in clinical routine at 1.5 and 3 T, yielding significantly better perceived image quality at 3 T but not at 1.5 T. BH-CS-MRCP appears to be influenced by ascites whereas STD-MRCP is influenced by BMI at 1.5 T. This study was approved by the Ethics Review Board for Research in Medical Imaging (IRB: CRM-2003-065).
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- Hélène Blaise
- Brabois Imaging Department, Nancy University Hospital, Université de Lorraine, Allée du Morvan 54500 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France.
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- Unity of Methodology and Data Management, Nancy University Hospital, Vandœuvre-Lès-Nancy, France
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- Brabois Imaging Department, Nancy University Hospital, Université de Lorraine, Allée du Morvan 54500 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Brabois Imaging Department, Nancy University Hospital, Université de Lorraine, Allée du Morvan 54500 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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Kim KS, Kang SY, Park CK, Kim GA, Park SY, Cho H, Seo CW, Lee DY, Lim HW, Lee HW, Park JE, Woo TH, Oh JE. A Compressed-Sensing Based Blind Deconvolution Method for Image Deblurring in Dental Cone-Beam Computed Tomography. J Digit Imaging 2018; 32:478-488. [PMID: 30238344 DOI: 10.1007/s10278-018-0120-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
In cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), reconstructed images are inherently degraded, restricting its image performance, due mainly to imperfections in the imaging process resulting from detector resolution, noise, X-ray tube's focal spot, and reconstruction procedure as well. Thus, the recovery of CBCT images from their degraded version is essential for improving image quality. In this study, we investigated a compressed-sensing (CS)-based blind deconvolution method to solve the blurring problem in CBCT where both the image to be recovered and the blur kernel (or point-spread function) of the imaging system are simultaneously recursively identified. We implemented the proposed algorithm and performed a systematic simulation and experiment to demonstrate the feasibility of using the algorithm for image deblurring in dental CBCT. In the experiment, we used a commercially available dental CBCT system that consisted of an X-ray tube, which was operated at 90 kVp and 5 mA, and a CMOS flat-panel detector with a 200-μm pixel size. The image characteristics were quantitatively investigated in terms of the image intensity, the root-mean-square error, the contrast-to-noise ratio, and the noise power spectrum. The results indicate that our proposed method effectively reduced the image blur in dental CBCT, excluding repetitious measurement of the system's blur kernel.
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- K S Kim
- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, Wonju, 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, Wonju, 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, Wonju, 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, Wonju, 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, Wonju, 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, Wonju, 26493, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, Wonju, 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, Wonju, 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, Wonju, 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, Wonju, 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, Wonju, 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, Wonju, 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Convergence Technology, National Cancer Center, Goyang, 10408, Republic of Korea
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Park S, Kim G, Cho H, Je U, Park C, Kim K, Lim H, Lee D, Lee H, Kang S, Park J, Woo T, Lee M. Image reconstruction in region-of-interest (or interior) digital tomosynthesis (DTS) based on compressed-sensing (CS). Comput Methods Programs Biomed 2017; 151:151-158. [PMID: 28946997 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2017.08.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2016] [Revised: 06/21/2017] [Accepted: 08/24/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Digital tomosynthesis (DTS) based on filtered-backprojection (FBP) reconstruction requires a full field-of-view (FOV) scan and relatively dense projections, which results in high doses for medical imaging purposes. To overcome these difficulties, we investigated region-of-interest (ROI) or interior DTS reconstruction where the x-ray beam span covers only a small ROI containing a target area. METHODS An iterative method based on compressed-sensing (CS) scheme was compared with the FBP-based algorithm for ROI-DTS reconstruction. We implemented both algorithms and performed a systematic simulation and experiments on body and skull phantoms. The image characteristics were evaluated and compared. RESULTS The CS-based algorithm yielded much better reconstruction quality in ROI-DTS compared to the FBP-based algorithm, preserving superior image homogeneity, edge sharpening, and in-plane resolution. The image characteristics of the CS-reconstructed images in ROI-DTS were not significantly different from those in full-FOV DTS. The measured CNR value of the CS-reconstructed ROI-DTS image was about 12.3, about 1.9 times larger than that of the FBP-reconstructed ROI-DTS image. CONCLUSIONS ROI-DTS images of substantially high accuracy were obtained using the CS-based algorithm and at reduced imaging doses and less computational cost, compared to typical full-FOV DTS images. We expect that the proposed method will be useful for the development of new DTS systems.
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- Soyoung Park
- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1 Yonseidae-gil, Wonju, Gangwon-do 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1 Yonseidae-gil, Wonju, Gangwon-do 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1 Yonseidae-gil, Wonju, Gangwon-do 26493, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1 Yonseidae-gil, Wonju, Gangwon-do 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1 Yonseidae-gil, Wonju, Gangwon-do 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1 Yonseidae-gil, Wonju, Gangwon-do 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1 Yonseidae-gil, Wonju, Gangwon-do 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1 Yonseidae-gil, Wonju, Gangwon-do 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1 Yonseidae-gil, Wonju, Gangwon-do 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1 Yonseidae-gil, Wonju, Gangwon-do 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1 Yonseidae-gil, Wonju, Gangwon-do 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1 Yonseidae-gil, Wonju, Gangwon-do 26493, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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Young RJ, Tan ET, Peck KK, Jenabi M, Karimi S, Brennan N, Rubel J, Lyo J, Shi W, Zhang Z, Prastawa M, Liu X, Sperl JI, Fatovic R, Marinelli L, Holodny AI. Comparison of compressed sensing diffusion spectrum imaging and diffusion tensor imaging in patients with intracranial masses. Magn Reson Imaging 2016; 36:24-31. [PMID: 27742434 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2016.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2016] [Revised: 08/31/2016] [Accepted: 10/05/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
Abstract
PURPOSE To compare compressed diffusion spectrum imaging (CS-DSI) with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in patients with intracranial masses. We hypothesized that CS-DSI would provide superior visualization of the motor and language tracts. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 25 consecutive patients with intracranial masses who underwent DTI and CS-DSI for preoperative planning. Directionally-encoded anisotropy maps, and streamline hand corticospinal motor tracts and arcuate fasciculus language tracts were graded according to a 3-point scale. Tract counts, anisotropy, and lengths were also calculated. Comparisons were made using exact marginal homogeneity, McNemar's and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests. RESULTS Readers preferred the CS-DSI over DTI anisotropy maps in 92% of the cases, and the CS-DSI over DTI tracts in 84%. The motor tracts were graded as excellent in 80% of cases for CS-DSI versus 52% for DTI; 58% of the motor tracts graded as acceptable in DTI were graded as excellent in CS-DSI (p=0.02). The language tracts were graded as excellent in 68% for CS-DSI versus none for DTI; 78% of the language tracts graded as acceptable by DTI were graded as excellent by CS-DSI (p<0.001). CS-DSI demonstrated smaller normalized mean differences than DTI for motor tract counts, anisotropy and language tract counts (p≤0.01). CONCLUSION CS-DSI was preferred over DTI for the evaluation of motor and language white matter tracts in patients with intracranial masses. Results suggest that CS-DSI may be more useful than DTI for preoperative planning purposes.
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- Robert J Young
- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Brain Tumor Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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- Department of Diagnostics, Imaging and Biomedical Technologies, GE Global Research
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- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Brain Tumor Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Brain Tumor Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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- Department of Diagnostics, Imaging and Biomedical Technologies, GE Global Research
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- Department of Diagnostics, Imaging and Biomedical Technologies, GE Global Research
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- Department of Diagnostics, Imaging and Biomedical Technologies, GE Global Research
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- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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- Department of Diagnostics, Imaging and Biomedical Technologies, GE Global Research
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- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Brain Tumor Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Je UK, Cho HM, Hong DK, Cho HS, Park YO, Park CK, Kim KS, Lim HW, Kim GA, Park SY, Woo TH, Cho SI. 3D reconstruction based on compressed-sensing (CS)-based framework by using a dental panoramic detector. Phys Med 2015; 32:213-7. [PMID: 26494155 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2015.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2015] [Revised: 09/22/2015] [Accepted: 09/24/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
Abstract
In this work, we propose a practical method that can combine the two functionalities of dental panoramic and cone-beam CT (CBCT) features in one by using a single panoramic detector. We implemented a CS-based reconstruction algorithm for the proposed method and performed a systematic simulation to demonstrate its viability for 3D dental X-ray imaging. We successfully reconstructed volumetric images of considerably high accuracy by using a panoramic detector having an active area of 198.4 mm × 6.4 mm and evaluated the reconstruction quality as a function of the pitch (p) and the angle step (Δθ). Our simulation results indicate that the CS-based reconstruction almost completely recovered the phantom structures, as in CBCT, for p≤2.0 and θ≤6°, indicating that it seems very promising for accurate image reconstruction even for large-pitch and few-view data. We expect the proposed method to be applicable to developing a cost-effective, volumetric dental X-ray imaging system.
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- U K Je
- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, iTOMO Research Group, Yonsei University, Wonju 220-710, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, iTOMO Research Group, Yonsei University, Wonju 220-710, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, iTOMO Research Group, Yonsei University, Wonju 220-710, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, iTOMO Research Group, Yonsei University, Wonju 220-710, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, iTOMO Research Group, Yonsei University, Wonju 220-710, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, iTOMO Research Group, Yonsei University, Wonju 220-710, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, iTOMO Research Group, Yonsei University, Wonju 220-710, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, iTOMO Research Group, Yonsei University, Wonju 220-710, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, iTOMO Research Group, Yonsei University, Wonju 220-710, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, iTOMO Research Group, Yonsei University, Wonju 220-710, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, iTOMO Research Group, Yonsei University, Wonju 220-710, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, iTOMO Research Group, Yonsei University, Wonju 220-710, Republic of Korea
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