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Stefaan Vandenberghe

Stefaan Vandenberghe

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
37
Citations
6828
World Ranking
8295
National Ranking
102

Overview

Stefaan Vandenberghe is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has contributed significantly to the fields of medicine and physics and astronomy. Their research primarily focuses on medical imaging techniques and applications, radiation detection and scintillator technologies, and advanced X-ray and CT imaging. Additional areas of interest include radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging, atomic and subatomic physics research, advanced radiotherapy techniques, and advanced MRI techniques and applications.

Throughout their career, Vandenberghe has published extensively, with a concentration in journals such as EJNMMI Physics, Physics in Medicine and Biology, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Physica Medica, and Medical Physics. These venues reflect a broad engagement with nuclear medicine, imaging physics, and related biomedical engineering topics.

Their recent notable publications include the following:

  • State of the art in total body PET, 2020, EJNMMI Physics
  • Roadmap toward the 10 ps time-of-flight PET challenge, 2020, Physics in Medicine and Biology
  • Advanced Monte Carlo simulations of emission tomography imaging systems with GATE, 2021, Physics in Medicine and Biology
  • Performance assessment of the 2 γpositronium imaging with the total-body PET scanners, 2020, EJNMMI Physics
  • Artificial intelligence with deep learning in nuclear medicine and radiology, 2021, EJNMMI Physics

Vandenberghe frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Regular coauthors include Jens Maebe, Christian Vanhove, Florence M. Muller, Joel S. Karp, and M. Dadgar. This network of collaborators supports research that spans biomedical engineering, radiology, and physics disciplines.

The main fields of study within which Vandenberghe operates are Medicine, where they have contributed to 53 publications, and Physics and Astronomy, with 33 publications. More specifically, their subfields of study encompass radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, radiation, biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Vandenberghe's work covers a variety of fundamental and applied topics in medical imaging technology, including radiation detection, tomography simulations, and the application of artificial intelligence in imaging diagnostics. This body of research supports ongoing advancements in nuclear medicine and related imaging sciences.

Best Publications

  • MRI-Based Attenuation Correction for PET/MRI Using Ultrashort Echo Time Sequences

    Vincent Keereman;Yves Fierens;Tom Broux;Yves De Deene

  • Recent developments in time-of-flight PET

    Stefaan Vandenberghe;Ekaterina Mikhaylova;Ester D'Hoe;Pieter Mollet

  • PET-MRI: a review of challenges and solutions in the development of integrated multimodality imaging

    Stefaan Vandenberghe;Paul K Marsden

  • Roadmap toward the 10 ps time-of-flight PET challenge

    Paul Lecoq;Christian Morel;John O Prior;Dimitris Visvikis

  • Iterative reconstruction algorithms in nuclear medicine.

    S. Vandenberghe;Y. D'Asseler;R. Van de Walle;T. Kauppinen

  • Advanced Monte Carlo simulations of emission tomography imaging systems with GATE.

    David Sarrut;Mateusz Bała;Manuel Bardiès;Julien Bert

  • Review of SPECT collimator selection, optimization, and fabrication for clinical and preclinical imaging.

    Karen Van Audenhaege;Roel Van Holen;Stefaan Vandenberghe;Christian Vanhove

  • Ictal‐onset localization through connectivity analysis of intracranial EEG signals in patients with refractory epilepsy

    Pieter van Mierlo;Evelien Carrette;Hans Hallez;Robrecht Raedt

  • Monte Carlo simulations of a scintillation camera using GATE: validation and application modelling

    Steven Staelens;Daniel Strul;Giovanni Santin;Stefaan Vandenberghe

  • Challenges and current methods for attenuation correction in PET/MR

    Vincent Keereman;Pieter Mollet;Yannick Berker;Yannick Berker;Volkmar Schulz;Volkmar Schulz

  • Development and evaluation of an improved quantitative 90Y bremsstrahlung SPECT method

    Xing Rong;Yong Du;Michael Ljungberg;Erwann Rault

  • Influence of skull modeling approaches on EEG source localization

    Victoria Montes-Restrepo;Pieter van Mierlo;Gregor Strobbe;Steven Staelens

  • Rapid additive manufacturing of MR compatible multipinhole collimators with selective laser melting of tungsten powder

    Karel Deprez;Stefaan Vandenberghe;Karen Van Audenhaege;Jonas Van Vaerenbergh

  • Fast generation of 4D PET-MR data from real dynamic MR acquisitions

    Charalampos Tsoumpas;Christian Buerger;Andrew King;P. Mollet

  • Fast reconstruction of 3D time-of-flight PET data by axial rebinning and transverse mashing

    Stefaan Vandenberghe;Margaret E Daube-Witherspoon;Robert M Lewitt;Joel S Karp

  • Iterative CT Reconstruction Using Shearlet-Based Regularization

    Bert Vandeghinste;Bart Goossens;Roel Van Holen;Christian Vanhove

  • Quantitative Imaging for Targeted Radionuclide Therapy Dosimetry - Technical Review.

    Tiantian Li;Edwin C I Ao;Bieke Lambert;Boudewijn Brans

  • Comparison of yttrium-90 quantitative imaging by TOF and non-TOF PET in a phantom of liver selective internal radiotherapy.

    Larry van Elmbt;Stefaan Vandenberghe;Stephan Walrand;Stanislas Pauwels

  • Comparison of image quality of different iodine isotopes (I-123, I-124, and I-131)

    Erwann Rault;Stefaan Vandenberghe;Roel Van Holen;Jan De Beenhouwer

  • Simultaneous MR-Compatible Emission and Transmission Imaging for PET Using Time-of-Flight Information

    P. Mollet;V. Keereman;E. Clementel;S. Vandenberghe

  • Radiation Detectors for Medical Applications

    E. Auffray;M. Boutemeur;G. Brandenburg;P. Bruyndonckx

  • Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2009 IEEE

    V. Schulz;T. Solf;B. Weissler;Pierre Gebhardt

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudi Dierckx
Rudi Dierckx University Medical Center Groningen
Rik Van de Walle
Rik Van de Walle Ghent University
Volkmar Schulz
Volkmar Schulz RWTH Aachen University
Patrick Segers
Patrick Segers Ghent University
Joel S. Karp
Joel S. Karp University of Pennsylvania
Kathy Steppe
Kathy Steppe Ghent University
Kristl Vonck
Kristl Vonck Ghent University
Paul Boon
Paul Boon Ghent University
Evelien Carrette
Evelien Carrette Ghent University
Edoardo Charbon
Edoardo Charbon École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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