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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to computer tomography

Overview

Michel Defrise is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on several subfields.

The main subfields of study Defrise has contributed to include Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Radiation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Biomedical Engineering.

Their work covers various specialized topics, such as Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research, Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies, Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, and Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging.

Frequent co-authors contributing to joint research with Defrise include:

  • Johan Nuyts
  • P. Lecoq
  • S. Gundacker
  • Emilie Roncali
  • Ahmadreza Rezaei

Defrise has published regularly in several academic venues, notably:

  • Physics in Medicine and Biology
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences

Recent publications by Michel Defrise encompass studies in positron emission tomography and CT reconstruction, reflecting their engagement with complex imaging modalities. Key papers include:

  • "The SNR of Positron Emission Data With Gaussian and Non-Gaussian Time-of-Flight Kernels, With Application to Prompt Photon Coincidence" (2022, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging)
  • "Rigid motion tracking using moments of inertia in TOF-PET brain studies" (2021, Physics in Medicine and Biology)
  • "Region-of-Interest CT Reconstruction Using Object Extent and Singular Value Decomposition" (2021, IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences)
  • "The SNR of time-of-flight positron emission tomography data for joint reconstruction of the activity and attenuation images" (2023, Physics in Medicine and Biology)

Michel Defrise received the IEEE Fellow award in 2010 for contributions to computer tomography.

Best Publications

  • An Iterative Thresholding Algorithm for Linear Inverse Problems with a Sparsity Constraint

    Ingrid Daubechies;Michel Defrise;Christine De Mol

  • Symmetric phase-only matched filtering of Fourier-Mellin transforms for image registration and recognition

    Qin-Sheng Chen;M. Defrise;F. Deconinck

  • Exact and approximate rebinning algorithms for 3-D PET data

    M. Defrise;P.E. Kinahan;D.W. Townsend;C. Michel

  • Iterative reconstruction for helical CT: a simulation study

    John Nuyts;Bruno De Man;Patrick Dupont;Michel Defrise

  • Image reconstruction from fan-beam projections on less than a short scan

    Fr$eacute$d$eacute$ric Noo;Michel Defrise;Rolf Clackdoyle;Hiroyuki Kudo

  • A cone-beam reconstruction algorithm using shift-variant filtering and cone-beam backprojection

    M. Defrise;R. Clack

  • Simultaneous Reconstruction of Activity and Attenuation in Time-of-Flight PET

    A. Rezaei;M. Defrise;G. Bal;C. Michel

  • Truncated Hilbert transform and image reconstruction from limited tomographic data

    Michel Defrise;Frédéric Noo;Rolf Clackdoyle;Hiroyuki Kudo

  • Tiny a priori knowledge solves the interior problem in computed tomography

    Hiroyuki Kudo;Matias Courdurier;Frédéric Noo;Michel Defrise

  • Time-of-flight PET data determine the attenuation sinogram up to a constant.

    Michel Defrise;Ahmadreza Rezaei;Johan Nuyts

  • Fully three-dimensional reconstruction for a PET camera with retractable septa

    D.W. Townsend;A. Geissbuhler;M. Defrise;E.J. Hoffman

  • A solution to the long-object problem in helical cone-beam tomography

    Michel Defrise;Frédéric Noo;Hiroyuki Kudo

  • Fast reconstruction of 3-D PET data with accurate statistical modeling

    C. Comtat;P.E. Kinahan;M. Defrise;C. Michel

  • Cone-beam filtered-backprojection algorithm for truncated helical data

    Hiroyuki Kudo;Frédéric Noo;Michel Defrise

  • Clinically feasible reconstruction of 3D whole-body PET/CT data using blurred anatomical labels.

    Claude Comtat;Paul E Kinahan;Paul E Kinahan;Jeffrey A Fessler;Thomas Beyer

  • Solving the interior problem of computed tomography using a priori knowledge

    Matias Courdurier;Frédéric Noo;Michel Defrise;Hiroyuki Kudo

  • Iterative Correction of Beam Hardening Artifacts in CT

    G. Van Gompel;K. Van Slambrouck;M. Defrise;K. J. Batenburg

  • Single-slice rebinning method for helical cone-beam CT.

    Frédéric Noo;Michel Defrise;Rolf Clackdoyle

  • Three dimensional reconstruction of PET data from a multi-ring camera

    D.W. Townsend;T. Sprinks;T. Jones;A. Geissbuhler

  • Comparison of 3-D reconstruction with 3D-OSEM and with FORE+OSEM for PET

    Xuan Liu;C. Comtat;C. Michel;P. Kinahan

  • Simultaneous reconstruction of activity and attenuation in Time-of-Flight PET

    Ahmadreza Rezaei;Johan Nuyts;Michel Defrise;Girish Bal

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul E. Kinahan
Paul E. Kinahan University of Washington
Michael E. Casey
Michael E. Casey Siemens (United States)
Antoine Geissbuhler
Antoine Geissbuhler University of Geneva
Grant T. Gullberg
Grant T. Gullberg University of California, San Francisco
Ingrid Daubechies
Ingrid Daubechies Duke University
Gengsheng L. Zeng
Gengsheng L. Zeng Utah Valley University
Rik Gijsbers
Rik Gijsbers KU Leuven
Jeffrey A. Fessler
Jeffrey A. Fessler University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stefaan Vandenberghe
Stefaan Vandenberghe Ghent University
Richard M. Leahy
Richard M. Leahy University of Southern California

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