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Michael A. King is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their work spans a number of subfields including Radiation, Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Genetics. The main topics covered in their research involve Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, and Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging. Other topics of interest included Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics, Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research, and Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies.

Michael A. King has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • 2021 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)
  • Medical Physics
  • Physics in Medicine and Biology
  • Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Several notable recent papers by Michael A. King include:

  • "Improving Diagnostic Accuracy in Low-Dose SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging With Convolutional Denoising Networks," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • "Deep learning with noise-to-noise training for denoising in SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging," 2020, Medical Physics
  • "The clinical utilities of multi-pinhole single photon emission computed tomography," 2020, Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery
  • "Cross-vender, cross-tracer, and cross-protocol deep transfer learning for attenuation map generation of cardiac SPECT," 2022, Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
  • "Investigation of Axial and Angular Sampling in Multi-Detector Pinhole-SPECT Brain Imaging," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers in the field. Prominent co-authors include:

  • Lars R. Furenlid
  • P. Hendrik Pretorius
  • Phillip H. Kuo
  • Kesava S. Kalluri
  • Benjamin Auer

Best Publications

  • A dual-photopeak window method for scatter correction.

    Michael A. King;George J. Hademenos;Stephen J. Glick

  • Two-dimensional filtering of SPECT images using the Metz and Wiener filters

    Michael A. King;Ronald B. Schwinger;Paul W. Doherty;Bill C. Penney

  • Channelized hotelling and human observer correlation for lesion detection in hepatic SPECT imaging

    Howard C. Gifford;Michael A. King;Daniel J. de Vries;Edward J. Soares

  • Attenuation compensation for cardiac single-photon emission computed tomographic imaging: Part 1. Impact of attenuation and methods of estimating attenuation maps

    Michael A. King;Benjamin M.W. Tsui;Tin Su Pan

  • Monte Carlo Calculation in Nuclear Medicine: Applications in Diagnostic Imaging

    Michael Ljungberg;Sven-Erik Strand;Michael A. King

  • Noniterative compensation for the distance-dependent detector response and photon attenuation in SPECT imaging

    S.J. Glick;B.C. Penney;M.A. King;C.L. Byrne

  • A Wiener filter for nuclear medicine images.

    Michael A. King;Paul W. Doherty;Ronald B. Schwinger;Bill C. Penney

  • Attenuation compensation for cardiac single-photon emission computed tomographic imaging: Part 2. Attenuation compensation algorithms.

    Michael A. King;Benjamin M.W. Tsui;Benjamin M.W. Tsui;Tin Su Pan;Stephen J. Glick;Stephen J. Glick

  • Comparison of four scatter correction methods using Monte Carlo simulated source distributions

    Michael Ljungberg;Michael A King;George J Hademenos;Sven-Erik Strand

  • Evaluation of right and left ventricular volume and ejection fraction using a mathematical cardiac torso phantom.

    P. Hendrik Pretorius;Weishi Xia;Michael A. King;Benjamin M.W. Tsui

  • SPECT volume quantitation: influence of spatial resolution, source size and shape, and voxel size.

    Michael A. King;David T. Long;A. Bertrand Brill

  • A mathematical model of motion of the heart for use in generating source and attenuation maps for simulating emission imaging

    P. Hendrik Pretorius;Michael A. King;Benjamin M. W. Tsui;Karen J. LaCroix

  • An investigation of the filtering of TEW scatter estimates used to compensate for scatter with ordered subset reconstructions

    M.A. King;D.J. deVries;T.-S. Pan;P.H. Pretorious

  • A comparison of human and model observers in multislice LROC studies

    H.C. Gifford;M.A. King;P.H. Pretorius;R.G. Wells

  • Investigation of causes of geometric distortion in 180 degrees and 360 degrees angular sampling in SPECT.

    Karin Knešaurek;Michael A. King;Stephen J. Glick;Bill C. Penney

  • Human-observer receiver-operating-characteristic evaluation of attenuation, scatter, and resolution compensation strategies for (99m)Tc myocardial perfusion imaging.

    Manoj V. Narayanan;Michael A. King;P. Hendrik Pretorius;Seth T. Dahlberg

  • A Monte Carlo investigation of artifacts caused by liver uptake in single-photon emission computed tomography perfusion imaging with technetium 99m-labeled agents

    Michael A. King;Weishi Xia;Daniel J. DeVries;Tin Su Pan

  • An investigation of the estimation of ejection fractions and cardiac volumes by a quantitative gated SPECT software package in simulated gated SPECT images

    Anne Doerte Achtert;Michael A. King;Seth T. Dahlberg;P. Hendrik Pretorius

  • Reducing the influence of the partial volume effect on SPECT activity quantitation with 3D modelling of spatial resolution in iterative reconstruction

    P. H. Pretorius;P. H. Pretorius;M. A. King;T. S. Pan;D. J. De Vries

  • Correction of the respiratory motion of the heart by tracking of the center of mass of thresholded projections: a simulation study using the dynamic MCAT phantom

    P.P. Bruyant;M.A. King;P.H. Pretorius

  • Digital restoration of indium-111 and iodine-123 SPECT images with optimized Metz filters.

    Michael A. King;Ronald B. Schwinger;Bill C. Penney;Paul W. Doherty

  • LROC analysis of detector-response compensation in SPECT

    H.C. Gifford;M.A. King;R.G. Wells;W.G. Hawkins

  • Fast count-dependent digital filtering of nuclear medicine images: concise communication.

    Michael A. King;Paul W. Doherty;Ronald B. Schwinger;David A. Jacobs

  • A comparison of human observer LROC and numerical observer ROC for tumor detection in SPECT images

    H.C. Gifford;R.G. Wells;M.A. King

Frequent Co-Authors

Miles N. Wernick
Miles N. Wernick Illinois Institute of Technology
Yongyi Yang
Yongyi Yang Illinois Institute of Technology
Charles Byrne
Charles Byrne University of Massachusetts Lowell
Benjamin M. W. Tsui
Benjamin M. W. Tsui Johns Hopkins University
Ling Shao
Ling Shao Terminus International
Eric C. Frey
Eric C. Frey Johns Hopkins University
Jeffrey A. Fessler
Jeffrey A. Fessler University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Freek J. Beekman
Freek J. Beekman Delft University of Technology
Harrison H. Barrett
Harrison H. Barrett University of Arizona
Matthew Botvinick
Matthew Botvinick Yale University

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