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2026

1. Huidong Xie, Weijie Gan, Reimund Bayerlein, Bo Zhou, Ming-Kai Chen, Michal Kulon, Annemarie Boustani, Kuan-Yin Ko, Der-Shiun Wang, Benjamin A. Spencer, Wei Ji, Xiongchao Chen, Qiong Liu, Xueqi Guo, Menghua Xia, Yinchi Zhou, Hui Liu, Liang Guo, Hongyu An, Ulugbek S. Kamilov, Hanzhong Wang, Biao Li, Axel Rominger, Kuangyu Shi, Ge Wang, Ramsey D. Badawi, Chi Liu. Dose-aware diffusion model for 3D PET image denoising: Multi-institutional validation with reader study and real low-dose data. Medical Image Analysis. 2026;111:104039. doi:10.1016/j.media.2026.104039

2. Kevin J Chung, Terry Jones, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Benjamin A. Spencer, Javier E. Lopez, Lorenzo Nardo, Abhijit J. Chaudhari, Audrey P Fan, Ramsey D. Badawi, Simon Cherry, Guobao Wang. EXPRESS: Single-tracer [¹⁸F]FDG PET quantification of blood-brain barrier permeability and cerebral blood flow: Validation using dual-tracer PET. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism. 2026. doi:10.1177/0271678X261458293

3. Reimund Bayerlein, Manish Das, Sushil Sharma, Ramsey D Badawi, Ermias Yitayew Beyene, Neha Chug, Catalina Curceanu, Eryk Czerwiński, Kavya Valsan Eliyan, Jakub Hajduga, Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk, Sharareh Jalali, Krzysztof Kacprzak, Tevfik Kaplanoglu, Łukasz Kapłon, Kamila Kasperska, Aleksander Khreptak, Grzegorz Korcyl, Tomasz Kozik, Karol Kubat, Sumit Kumar Kundu, Anoop Kunimmal Venadan, Deepak Kumar, Edward Lisowski, Filip Lisowski, Justyna Mędrala-Sowa, Simbarashe Moyo, Wiktor Mryka, Szymon Niedźwiecki, Marta Opalińska, Piyush Pandey, Anand Pandey, Szymon Parzych, Alessio Porcelli, Bartłomiej Rachwał, Martin Rädler, Benjamin A Spencer, Anna Sowa-Staszczak, Magdalena Skurzok, Tomasz Szumlak, Satyam Tiwari, Pooja Tanty, Keyvan Tayefi Ardebili, Ewa Ł Stępień, Pawel Moskał. Monte Carlo-based scatter correction for the plastic-based modular PET scanner J-PET. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 2026;71(7):075026. doi:10.1088/1361-6560/ae54fb

4. Daria Ferrara, Manuel Pires, Sebastian Gutschmayer, Josef Yu, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Elisabetta Abenavoli, Ramsey D. Badawi, Abhijit J. Chaudhari, Moon S. Chen, Simon R. Cherry, Armin Frille, Barbara K. Geist, Stefan Gruenert, Marcus Hacker, Swen Hesse, Teresa Kerkhoff, Pia Linder, Johanna Pappisch, Smilla Pusitz, Osama A. Raslan, Ivo Rausch, Siba P. Raychaudhuri, Osama Sabri, Fabian P. Schmidt, Roberto Sciagrà, Benjamin A. Spencer, Guobao Wang, Hubert Wirtz, Thomas Beyer, Lalith Kumar Shiyam Sundar. Sharing a whole-/total-body [18F]FDG-PET/CT dataset with CT-derived segmentations: an ENHANCE.PET initiative. Scientific Data. 2026;13(1):869. doi:10.1038/s41597-026-07218-y

5. Reimund Bayerlein, Menghua Xia, Jinsong Ouyang, Yanis Chemli, David Melnichuk, Georges El Fakhri, Lorenzo Nardo, Chi Liu, Ramsey D. Badawi. Exploring the limits of deep-learning‑based PET image denoising for lesion detectability. In: Medical Imaging 2026: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment. Vol 13928. SPIE; 2026:24-31. doi:10.1117/12.3085222

6. Menghua Xia, Kuan-Yin Ko, Der-Shiun Wang, Ming-Kai Chen, Qiong Liu, Huidong Xie, Liang Guo, Wei Ji, Jinsong Ouyang, Reimund Bayerlein, Benjamin A. Spencer, Quanzheng Li, Ramsey D. Badawi, Georges El Fakhri, Chi Liu. Anatomically and metabolically informed diffusion for unified denoising and segmentation in low-count PET imaging. Medical Image Analysis. 2026;107:103831. doi:10.1016/j.media.2025.103831

7. Anahita Tavakoli, Yiran Wang, Lorenzo Nardo, Erinda Puta, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Simon R. Cherry, Ramsey D. Badawi, Terry Jones, Guobao Wang. Impact of Time Delay Correction on Brain Kinetic Quantification Using Total-Body Dynamic PET. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. 2026. doi:10.1109/TRPMS.2026.3688464

8. Siqi Li, Benjamin A. Spencer, Yiran Wang, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Heather Hunt, J. Anthony Seibert, Simon R. Cherry, Ramsey D. Badawi, Lorenzo Nardo, Guobao Wang. Incorporating Tissue Composition Information in Total-Body PET Metabolic Quantification of Bone Marrow through Dual-Energy CT. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. 2026. doi:10.1109/TRPMS.2026.3701292

9. Clemens Mingels, Naseem S. Esteghamat, Joseph Tuscano, Yasser Abdelhafez, Benjamin A. Spencer, Lorenzo Nardo. New Scanners. In: Domenico Albano, ed. [¹⁸F]FDG PET/CT Role in Lymphoma. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland; 2026:189-198. doi:10.1007/978-3-032-25634-8_14

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2025

1. Menghua Xia, Reimund Bayerlein, Yanis Chemli, Xiaofeng Liu, Jinsong Ouyang, MingDe Lin, Georges El Fakhri, Ramsey D. Badawi, Quanzheng Li, Chi Liu. On Hallucinations in Artificial Intelligence–Generated Content for Nuclear Medicine Imaging (the DREAM Report). Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2025. doi:10.2967/jnumed.125.270653

2. Xiaoyu Duan, Souvik Sarkar, Victoria Lyo, Sean Romeo, Benjamin A. Spencer, Karen E. Matsukuma, Valentina Medici, Michael T. Corwin, Ramsey D. Badawi, Guobao Wang. Quantification of¹⁸F-FDG Delivery Rate for Liver Inflammation Using Shortened Dynamic PET Imaging Protocols. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2025;66(11):1834-1841. doi:10.2967/jnumed.124.269434

3. Lalith Kumar Shiyam Sundar, Sebastian Gutschmayer, Manuel Pires, Daria Ferrara, Toni Nguyen, Yasser Gaber Abdelhafez, Benjamin Spencer, Simon R. Cherry, Ramsey D. Badawi, David Kersting, Wolfgang P. Fendler, Moon-Sung Kim, Martin Lyngby Lassen, Philip Hasbak, Fabian Schmidt, Pia Linder, Xingyu Mu, Zewen Jiang, Elisabetta M. Abenavoli, Roberto Sciagrà, Armin Frille, Hubert Wirtz, Swen Hesse, Osama Sabri, Dale Bailey, David Chan, Jason Callahan, Rodney J. Hicks, Thomas Beyer. Fully Automated Image-Based Multiplexing of Serial PET/CT Imaging for Facilitating Comprehensive Disease Phenotyping. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2025;66(11):1818-1826. doi:10.2967/jnumed.125.269688

4. Brahim Mehadji, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Abass Alavi, Kevin J. Chung, Nicolas A. Karakatsanis, Negar Omidvari, Lorenzo Nardo. Long Axial Field of View PET: A New Era of Quantitative PET Imaging for Prospective Applications Beyond Classical Theranostics. PET Clinics. 2025;20(4):499-510. doi:10.1016/j.cpet.2025.07.009

5. Clemens Mingels, Kevin J. Chung, Hande Nalbant, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Naseem S. Esteghamat, Mehrad Rokni, Shervin Zoghi, Joseph M. Tuscano, Axel Rominger, Ramsey D. Badawi, Benjamin A. Spencer, Lorenzo Nardo. Lymphoma Therapy Response Assessment with Low-Dose [¹⁸F]FDG Total-Body PET/CT. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2025;66(9):1338-1344. doi:10.2967/jnumed.124.268841

6. Abhijit J Chaudhari, Yasser G Abdelhafez, Lorenzo Nardo, Siba P Raychaudhuri. Beyond skin deep: total-body positron emission tomography to illuminate systemic inflammation in psoriatic arthritis. Current Opinion in Immunology. 2025;95:102587. doi:10.1016/j.coi.2025.102587

7. Clemens Mingels, Mohammad H. Madani, Fatma Sen, Hande Nalbant, Jonathan W. Riess, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Ahmadreza Ghasemiesfe, Axel Rominger, Michele Guindani, Ramsey D. Badawi, Benjamin A. Spencer, Lorenzo Nardo. Diagnostic accuracy in NSCLC lymph node staging with Total-Body and conventional PET/CT. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2025;52(9):3190-3198. doi:10.1007/s00259-025-07177-3

8. Siba P Raychaudhuri, Yasser G Abdelhafez, Dario F Mazza, Smriti K Raychaudhuri, Simon R Cherry, Lorenzo Nardo, Ramsey D Badawi, Abhijit J Chaudhari. Total-body positron emission tomography: a tool for systemic, quantitative evaluation of the inflammatory burden of psoriatic arthritis. Rheumatology. 2025;64(6):3483-3491. doi:10.1093/rheumatology/keae702

9. Kevin J. Chung, Abhijit J. Chaudhari, Lorenzo Nardo, Terry Jones, Moon S. Chen, Ramsey D. Badawi, Simon R. Cherry, Guobao Wang. Quantitative Total-Body Imaging of Blood Flow with High-Temporal-Resolution Early Dynamic¹⁸F-FDG PET Kinetic Modeling. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2025;66(6):973-980. doi:10.2967/jnumed.124.268706

10. Anjan Bhattarai, Emily Nicole Holy, Yiran Wang, Benjamin A. Spencer, Guobao Wang, Charles DeCarli, Audrey P. Fan. Kinetic modeling of 18F-PI-2620 binding in the brain using an image-derived input function with total-body PET. EJNMMI Research. 2025;15(1):62. doi:10.1186/s13550-025-01260-4

11. Yansong Zhu, Siqi Li, Zhaoheng Xie, Edwin K. Leung, Reimund Bayerlein, Negar Omidvari, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Simon R. Cherry, Jinyi Qi, Ramsey D. Badawi, Benjamin A. Spencer, Guobao Wang. Feasibility of PET-enabled dual-energy CT imaging: First physical phantom and initial patient study results. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2025;52(5):1912-1923. doi:10.1007/s00259-024-06975-5

12. Siqi Li, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Lorenzo Nardo, Simon R. Cherry, Ramsey D. Badawi, Guobao Wang. Total-Body Parametric Imaging Using Relative Patlak Plot. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2025;66(4):654-661. doi:10.2967/jnumed.124.268496

13. Kevin J. Chung, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Benjamin A. Spencer, Terry Jones, Quyen Tran, Lorenzo Nardo, Moon S. Chen, Souvik Sarkar, Valentina Medici, Victoria Lyo, Ramsey D. Badawi, Simon R. Cherry, Guobao Wang. Quantitative PET imaging and modeling of molecular blood-brain barrier permeability. Nature Communications. 2025;16(1):3076. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-58356-7

14. Felipe Godinez, Clemens Mingels, Reimund Bayerlein, Brahim Mehadji, Lorenzo Nardo. Total Body PET/CT: Future Aspects. Seminars in Nuclear Medicine. 2025;55(1):107-115. doi:10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2024.10.011

15. Shervin Zoghi, Clemens Mingels, Ramsey D. Badawi, Benjamin A. Spencer, Tracy L. Yarbrough, Lorenzo Nardo, Abhijit J. Chaudhari. Role of Total Body PET/CT in Inflammatory Disorders. Seminars in Nuclear Medicine. 2025;55(1):41-51. doi:10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2024.11.001

16. Negar Omidvari, Ekaterina Shanina, Edwin K. Leung, Xishan Sun, Yusheng Li, Tim Mulnix, Paul Gravel, Shannan Henry, David Matuskey, Tommaso Volpi, Terry Jones, Ramsey D. Badawi, Hongdi Li, Richard E. Carson, Jinyi Qi, Simon R. Cherry. Quantitative Accuracy Assessment of the NeuroEXPLORER for Diverse Imaging Applications: Moving Beyond Standard Evaluations. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2025;66(1):150-157. doi:10.2967/jnumed.124.268309

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2024

1. Manish Das, Reimund Bayerlein, Sushil Sharma, Szymon Parzych, Szymon Niedźwiecki, Ramsey Badawi, Ermias Yitayew Beyene, Neha Chug, Catalina Curceanu, Eryk Czerwiński, Kavya Valsan Eliyan, Bogusław Głowa, Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk, Krzysztof Kacprzak, Tevfik Kaplanoglu, Kamila Kasperska, Grzegorz Korcyl, Aleksander Khreptak, Karol Kubat, Deepak Kumar, Edward Lisowski, Filip Lisowski, Justyna Mędrala-Sowa, Simbarashe Moyo, Wiktor Mryka, Marta Opalińska, Piyush Pandey, Martin Rädler, Magdalena Skurzok, Anna Sowa-Staszczak, Benjamin A. Spencer, Pooja Tanty, Keyvan Tayefi Ardebili, Anoop Kunimmal Venadan, Elena Perez Del Rio, Ewa Stępień, Paweł Moskal. Development of correction techniques for the J-PET scanner. Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems. 2024;20(1):101-110. doi:10.5604/01.3001.0054.9362

2. Ekaterina Shanina, Benjamin A Spencer, Tiantian Li, Bangyan Huang, Jinyi Qi, Simon R Cherry. PICASSO: a universal brain phantom for positron emission tomography based on the activity painting technique. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 2024;69(21):215022. doi:10.1088/1361-6560/ad84b5

3. Clemens Mingels, Hande Nalbant, Hasan Sari, Felipe Godinez, Fatma Sen, Benjamin Spencer, Naseem S. Esteghamat, Joseph M. Tuscano, Lorenzo Nardo. Long-Axial Field-of-View PET Imaging in Patients with Lymphoma: Challenges and Opportunities. PET Clinics. 2024;19(4):495-504. doi:10.1016/j.cpet.2024.05.005

4. Qian Wang, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Hande Nalbant, Benjamin A. Spencer, Reimund Bayerlein, Jinyi Qi, Simon R. Cherry, Lorenzo Nardo, Ramsey D. Badawi. Refining penalty parameter selection in whole-body PET image reconstruction for lung cancer patients using the cross-validation log-likelihood method. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2024;69(18). doi:10.1088/1361-6560/ad7222

5. Jianghan Bao, Weihan Li, Siqi Huang, Wen Ming Yu, Che Liu, Tie Jun Cui. Physics-driven unsupervised deep learning network for programmable metasurface-based beamforming. iScience. 2024;27(9):110595. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.110595

6. Negar Omidvari, Jelena Levi, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Yiran Wang, Lorenzo Nardo, Megan E. Daly, Guobao Wang, Simon R. Cherry. Total-Body Dynamic Imaging and Kinetic Modeling of [¹⁸F]F-AraG in Healthy Individuals and a Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Patient Undergoing Anti–PD-1 Immunotherapy. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2024;65(9):1481-1488. doi:10.2967/jnumed.123.267003

7. Hongdi Li, Ramsey D. Badawi, Simon R. Cherry, Kathryn Fontaine, Liuchun He, Shannan Henry, Ansel T. Hillmer, Lingzhi Hu, Nikkita Khattar, Edwin K. Leung, Tiantian Li, Yusheng Li, Chi Liu, Peng Liu, Zhenrui Lu, Stanislaw Majewski, David Matuskey, Evan D. Morris, Tim Mulnix, Negar Omidvari, Suranjana Samanta, Aaron Selfridge, Xishan Sun, Takuya Toyonaga, Tommaso Volpi, Tianyi Zeng, Terry Jones, Jinyi Qi, Richard E. Carson. Performance Characteristics of the NeuroEXPLORER, a Next-Generation Human Brain PET/CT Imager. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2024;65(8):1320-1326. doi:10.2967/jnumed.124.267767

8. Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Guobao Wang, Siqi Li, Vanessa Pellegrinelli, Abhijit J. Chaudhari, Anthony Ramirez, Fatma Sen, Antonio Vidal-Puig, Labros S. Sidossis, Samuel Klein, Ramsey D. Badawi, Maria Chondronikola. The role of brown adipose tissue in branched-chain amino acid clearance in people. iScience. 2024;27(8):110559. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.110559

9. Reimund Bayerlein, Vivek Swarnakar, Aaron Selfridge, Benjamin A Spencer, Lorenzo Nardo, Ramsey D Badawi. Cloud-based serverless computing enables accelerated monte carlo simulations for nuclear medicine imaging. Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express. 2024;10(4):045053. doi:10.1088/2057-1976/ad5847

10. Clemens Mingels, Benjamin A. Spencer, Hande Nalbant, Negar Omidvari, Mehrad Rokni, Axel Rominger, Fatma Sen, Simon R. Cherry, Ramsey D. Badawi, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Lorenzo Nardo. Dose Reduction in Pediatric Oncology Patients with Delayed Total-Body [¹⁸F]FDG PET/CT. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2024;65(7):1101-1106. doi:10.2967/jnumed.124.267521

11. Honest Ndlovu, Kgomotso M.G. Mokoala, Ismaheel Lawal, Louise Emmett, Mike M. Sathekge. Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen: Alpha-labeled Radiopharmaceuticals. PET Clinics. 2024;19(3):371-388. doi:10.1016/j.cpet.2024.03.003

12. Anna Helin Koyun, Nasibeh Talebi, Annett Werner, Paul Wendiggensen, Paul Kuntke, Veit Roessner, Christian Beste, Ann-Kathrin Stock. Interactions of catecholamines and GABA+ in cognitive control: Insights from EEG and 1H-MRS. NeuroImage. 2024;293:120619. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120619

13. Yansong Zhu, Quyen Tran, Yiran Wang, Ramsey D. Badawi, Simon R. Cherry, Jinyi Qi, Shiva Abbaszadeh, Guobao Wang. Optimization-derived blood input function using a kernel method and its evaluation with total-body PET for brain parametric imaging. NeuroImage. 2024;293:120611. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120611

14. Yiran Wang, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Benjamin A. Spencer, Rashmi Verma, Mamta Parikh, Nicholas Stollenwerk, Lorenzo Nardo, Terry Jones, Ramsey D. Badawi, Simon R. Cherry, Guobao Wang. High-Temporal-Resolution Kinetic Modeling of Lung Tumors with Dual-Blood Input Function Using Total-Body Dynamic PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2024;65(5):714-721. doi:10.2967/jnumed.123.267036

15. Emily Nicole Holy, Elizabeth Li, Anjan Bhattarai, Evan Fletcher, Evelyn R. Alfaro, Danielle J. Harvey, Benjamin A. Spencer, Simon R. Cherry, Charles S. DeCarli, Audrey P. Fan. Non-invasive quantification of 18F-florbetaben with total-body EXPLORER PET. EJNMMI Research. 2024;14(1):39. doi:10.1186/s13550-024-01104-7

16. Reimund Bayerlein, Benjamin A Spencer, Edwin K Leung, Negar Omidvari, Yasser G Abdelhafez, Qian Wang, Lorenzo Nardo, Simon R Cherry, Ramsey D Badawi. Development of a Monte Carlo-based scatter correction method for total-body PET using the uEXPLORER PET/CT scanner. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 2024;69(4):045033. doi:10.1088/1361-6560/ad2230

17. Siqi Li, Yansong Zhu, Benjamin A. Spencer, Guobao Wang. Single-Subject Deep-Learning Image Reconstruction With a Neural Optimization Transfer Algorithm for PET-Enabled Dual-Energy CT Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 2024;33:4075-4089. doi:10.1109/TIP.2024.3418347

18. Benjamin A. Spencer, Kristin McBride, Heather Hunt, Terry Jones, Simon R. Cherry, Ramsey D. Badawi. Practical Considerations for Total-Body PET Acquisition and Imaging. In: Timothy H. Witney, Adam J. Shuhendler, eds. Positron Emission Tomography. Vol 2729. New York, NY: Springer US; 2024:371-389. doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-3499-8_21

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2023

1. Reimund Bayerlein, Benjamin A Spencer, Yasser G Abdelhafez, Simon R Cherry, Ramsey D Badawi, Negar Omidvari. Numerical investigation reveals challenges in measuring the contrast recovery coefficients in PET. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 2023;68(21):215013. doi:10.1088/1361-6560/ad00fa

2. Yiran Wang, Lorenzo Nardo, Benjamin A. Spencer, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Elizabeth J. Li, Negar Omidvari, Abhijit J. Chaudhari, Ramsey D. Badawi, Terry Jones, Simon R. Cherry, Guobao Wang. Total-Body Multiparametric PET Quantification of¹⁸F-FDG Delivery and Metabolism in the Study of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Recovery. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2023;64(11):1821-1830. doi:10.2967/jnumed.123.265723

3. Elizabeth J. Li, Javier E. López, Benjamin A. Spencer, Yasser Abdelhafez, Ramsey D. Badawi, Guobao Wang, Simon R. Cherry. Total-Body Perfusion Imaging with [¹¹C]-Butanol. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2023;64(11):1831-1838. doi:10.2967/jnumed.123.265659

4. Negar Omidvari, Terry Jones, Pat M. Price, April L. Ferre, Jacqueline Lu, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Fatma Sen, Stuart H. Cohen, Kristin Schmiedehausen, Ramsey D. Badawi, Barbara L. Shacklett, Ian Wilson, Simon R. Cherry. First-in-human immunoPET imaging of COVID-19 convalescent patients using dynamic total-body PET and a CD8-targeted minibody. Science Advances. 2023;9(41):eadh7968. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adh7968

5. Aaron R. Selfridge, Benjamin A. Spencer, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Keisuke Nakagawa, John D. Tupin, Ramsey D. Badawi. Facial Anonymization and Privacy Concerns in Total-Body PET/CT. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2023;64(8):1304-1309. doi:10.2967/jnumed.122.265280

6. Yiran Wang, Benjamin A. Spencer, Jeffrey Schmall, Elizabeth Li, Ramsey D. Badawi, Terry Jones, Simon R. Cherry, Guobao Wang. High-Temporal-Resolution Lung Kinetic Modeling Using Total-Body Dynamic PET with Time-Delay and Dispersion Corrections. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2023;64(7):1154-1161. doi:10.2967/jnumed.122.264810

7. Lalith Kumar Shiyam Sundar, Martin Lyngby Lassen, Sebastian Gutschmayer, Daria Ferrara, Anna Calabrò, Josef Yu, Kilian Kluge, Yiran Wang, Lorenzo Nardo, Philip Hasbak, Andreas Kjaer, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Guobao Wang, Simon R. Cherry, Benjamin A. Spencer, Ramsey D. Badawi, Thomas Beyer, Otto Muzik. Fully Automated, Fast Motion Correction of Dynamic Whole-Body and Total-Body PET/CT Imaging Studies. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2023;64(7):1145-1153. doi:10.2967/jnumed.122.265362

8. Elizabeth Katherine Anna Triumbari, Vittoria Rufini, Clemens Mingels, Axel Rominger, Abass Alavi, Francesco Fanfani, Ramsey D. Badawi, Lorenzo Nardo. Long Axial Field-of-View PET/CT Could Answer Unmet Needs in Gynecological Cancers. Cancers. 2023;15(9):2407. doi:10.3390/cancers15092407

9. Siqi Li, Kuang Gong, Ramsey D. Badawi, Edward J Kim, Jinyi Qi, Guobao Wang. Neural KEM: A Kernel Method With Deep Coefficient Prior for PET Image Reconstruction. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 2023;42(3):785-796. doi:10.1109/TMI.2022.3217543

10. Thorsten Derlin, Benjamin A. Spencer, Martin Mamach, Yasser Abdelhafez, Lorenzo Nardo, Ramsey D. Badawi, Simon R. Cherry, Frank M. Bengel. Exploring Vessel Wall Biology In Vivo by Ultrasensitive Total-Body PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine: Official Publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine. 2023;64(3):416-422. doi:10.2967/jnumed.122.264550

11. Anna Calabro’, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Elizabeth K. A. Triumbari, Benjamin A. Spencer, Moon S. Chen, Domenico Albano, Christopher R. Cassim, Francesco Bertagna, Francesco Dondi, Simon R. Cherry, Ramsey D. Badawi, Fatma Sen, Lorenzo Nardo. 18F-FDG gallbladder uptake: observation from a total-body PET/CT scanner. BMC Medical Imaging. 2023;23(1):9. doi:10.1186/s12880-022-00957-5

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2022

1. Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Kristin McBride, Edwin K. Leung, Heather Hunt, Benjamin A. Spencer, Javier E. Lopez, Kwame Atsina, Elizabeth J. Li, Guobao Wang, Simon R. Cherry, Ramsey D. Badawi, Fatma Sen, Lorenzo Nardo. Blanching Defects at Pressure Points: Observations from Dynamic Total-Body PET/CT Studies. Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology. 2022;50(4):327-334. doi:10.2967/jnmt.122.263905

2. Lalith Kumar Shiyam Sundar, Josef Yu, Otto Muzik, Oana C. Kulterer, Barbara Fueger, Daria Kifjak, Thomas Nakuz, Hyung Min Shin, Annika Katharina Sima, Daniela Kitzmantl, Ramsey D. Badawi, Lorenzo Nardo, Simon R. Cherry, Benjamin A. Spencer, Marcus Hacker, Thomas Beyer. Fully Automated, Semantic Segmentation of Whole-Body¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT Images Based on Data-Centric Artificial Intelligence. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2022;63(12):1941-1948. doi:10.2967/jnumed.122.264063

3. Yasser Abdelhafez, Siba P. Raychaudhuri, Dario Mazza, Soumajyoti Sarkar, Heather L. Hunt, Kristin McBride, Mike Nguyen, Denise T. Caudle, Benjamin A. Spencer, Negar Omidvari, Heejung Bang, Simon R. Cherry, Lorenzo Nardo, Ramsey D. Badawi, Abhijit J. Chaudhari. Total-Body¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT in Autoimmune Inflammatory Arthritis at Ultra-Low Dose: Initial Observations. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2022;63(10):1579-1585. doi:10.2967/jnumed.121.263774

4. Negar Omidvari, Li Cheng, Edwin K. Leung, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Ramsey D. Badawi, Tianyu Ma, Jinyi Qi, Simon R. Cherry. Lutetium background radiation in total-body PET—A simulation study on opportunities and challenges in PET attenuation correction. Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine. 2022;2:963067. doi:10.3389/fnume.2022.963067

5. Guobao Wang, Lorenzo Nardo, Mamta Parikh, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Elizabeth Li, Benjamin A. Spencer, Jinyi Qi, Terry Jones, Simon R. Cherry, Ramsey D. Badawi. Total-Body PET Multiparametric Imaging of Cancer Using a Voxelwise Strategy of Compartmental Modeling. Journal of Nuclear Medicine: Official Publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine. 2022;63(8):1274-1281. doi:10.2967/jnumed.121.262668

6. Gustavo Costa, Benjamin Spencer, Negar Omidvari, Cameron Foster, Michael Rusnak, Heather Hunt, Denise T. Caudle, Rex T. Pillai, Catherine Tram Vu, Emilie Roncali. Radioembolization Dosimetry with Total-Body⁹⁰Y PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2022;63(7):1101-1107. doi:10.2967/jnumed.121.263145

7. Edwin K Leung, Yasser G Abdelhafez, Eric Berg, Zhaoheng Xie, Xuezhu Zhang, Reimund Bayerlein, Benjamin Spencer, Elizabeth Li, Negar Omidvari, Aaron Selfridge, Simon R Cherry, Jinyi Qi, Ramsey D Badawi. Relating¹⁸F-FDG image signal-to-noise ratio to time-of-flight noise-equivalent count rate in total-body PET using the uEXPLORER scanner. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 2022;67(12):125007. doi:10.1088/1361-6560/ac72f1

8. Quinn Kwan-Tai Ng, Elizabeth Katherine Anna Triumbari, Negar Omidvari, Simon R. Cherry, Ramsey D. Badawi, Lorenzo Nardo. Total-body PET/CT – First Clinical Experiences and Future Perspectives. Seminars in Nuclear Medicine. 2022;52(3):330-339. doi:10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2022.01.002

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2021

1. Elizabeth Li, Benjamin A. Spencer, Jeffrey P. Schmall, Yasser Abdelhafez, Ramsey D. Badawi, Guobao Wang, Simon R. Cherry. Efficient delay correction for total-body PET kinetic modeling using pulse timing methods. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2021. doi:10.2967/jnumed.121.262968

2. Guobao Wang, Lorenzo Nardo, Mamta Parikh, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Elizabeth Li, Benjamin A. Spencer, Jinyi Qi, Terry Jones, Simon R. Cherry, Ramsey D. Badawi. Total-Body PET Multiparametric Imaging of Cancer Using a Voxel-wise Strategy of Compartmental Modeling. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2021. doi:10.2967/jnumed.121.262668

3. Souvik Sarkar, Karen E. Matsukuma, Benjamin Spencer, Shuai Chen, Kristin A. Olson, Ramsey D. Badawi, Michael T. Corwin, Guobao Wang. Dynamic Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Imaging Correlate of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2021;19(11):2441-2443. doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2020.10.029

4. Edwin K Leung, Eric Berg, Negar Omidvari, Benjamin A Spencer, Elizabeth Li, Yasser G Abdelhafez, Jeffrey P Schmall, Weiping Liu, Liuchun He, Songsong Tang, Yilin Liu, Yun Dong, Terry Jones, Simon R Cherry, Ramsey D Badawi. Quantitative accuracy in total-body imaging using the uEXPLORER PET/CT scanner. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 2021;66(20):205008. doi:10.1088/1361-6560/ac287c

5. Yiran Wang, Elizabeth Li, Simon R. Cherry, Guobao Wang. Total-Body PET Kinetic Modeling and Potential Opportunities Using Deep Learning. PET clinics. 2021;16(4):613-625. doi:10.1016/j.cpet.2021.06.009

6. Lorenzo Nardo, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Benjamin A. Spencer, Ramsey D. Badawi. Clinical Implementation of Total-Body PET/CT at University of California, Davis. PET clinics. 2021;16(1):1-7. doi:10.1016/j.cpet.2020.09.006

7. Jinyi Qi, Samuel Matej, Guobao Wang, Xuezhu Zhang. 3D/4D Reconstruction and Quantitative Total Body Imaging. PET clinics. 2021;16(1):41-54. doi:10.1016/j.cpet.2020.09.008

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2020

1. Benjamin A. Spencer, Eric Berg, Jeffrey P. Schmall, Negar Omidvari, Edwin K. Leung, Yasser G. Abdelhafez, Songsong Tang, Zilin Deng, Yun Dong, Yang Lv, Jun Bao, Weiping Liu, Hongdi Li, Terry Jones, Ramsey D. Badawi, Simon R. Cherry. Performance evaluation of the uEXPLORER Total-body PET/CT scanner based on NEMA NU 2-2018 with additional tests to characterize long axial field-of-view PET scanners. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2020. doi:10.2967/jnumed.120.250597

2. Eric Berg, Herman Gill, Jan Marik, Annie Ogasawara, Simon Williams, Guus van Dongen, Daniëlle Vugts, Simon R. Cherry, Alice F. Tarantal. Total-Body PET and Highly Stable Chelators Together Enable Meaningful 89Zr-Antibody PET Studies up to 30 Days After Injection. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2020;61(3):453-460. doi:10.2967/jnumed.119.230961

3. Xuezhu Zhang, Simon R. Cherry, Zhaoheng Xie, Hongcheng Shi, Ramsey D. Badawi, Jinyi Qi. Subsecond total-body imaging using ultrasensitive positron emission tomography. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2020;117(5):2265-2267. doi:10.1073/pnas.1917379117

4. Xuezhu Zhang, Zhaoheng Xie, Eric Berg, Martin S. Judenhofer, Weiping Liu, Tianyi Xu, Yu Ding, Yang Lv, Yun Dong, Zilin Deng, Songsong Tang, Hongcheng Shi, Pengcheng Hu, Shuguang Chen, Jun Bao, Hongdi Li, Jian Zhou, Guobao Wang, Simon R. Cherry, Ramsey D. Badawi, Jinyi Qi. Total-Body Dynamic Reconstruction and Parametric Imaging on the uEXPLORER. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2020;61(2):285-291. doi:10.2967/jnumed.119.230565

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2019

1. Ramsey D. Badawi, Hongcheng Shi, Pengcheng Hu, Shuguang Chen, Tianyi Xu, Patricia M. Price, Yu Ding, Benjamin A. Spencer, Lorenzo Nardo, Weiping Liu, Jun Bao, Terry Jones, Hongdi Li, Simon R. Cherry. First Human Imaging Studies with the EXPLORER Total-Body PET Scanner*. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2019;60(3):299-303. doi:10.2967/jnumed.119.226498

2. Yang Lv, Xinyu Lv, Weiping Liu, Martin S Judenhofer, Allison Zwingenberger, Erik Wisner, Eric Berg, Sarah McKenney, Edwin Leung, Benjamin A Spencer, Simon R Cherry, Ramsey D Badawi. Mini EXPLORER II: a prototype high-sensitivity PET/CT scanner for companion animal whole body and human brain scanning. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 2019;64(7):075004. doi:10.1088/1361-6560/aafc6c

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2018

1. Edwin K Leung, Martin S Judenhofer, Simon R Cherry, Ramsey D Badawi. Performance assessment of a software-based coincidence processor for the EXPLORER total-body PET scanner. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 2018;63(18):18NT01. doi:10.1088/1361-6560/aadd3c

2. Simon R. Cherry, Terry Jones, Joel S. Karp, Jinyi Qi, William W. Moses, Ramsey D. Badawi. Total-Body PET: Maximizing Sensitivity to Create New Opportunities for Clinical Research and Patient Care. Journal of Nuclear Medicine: Official Publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine. 2018;59(1):3-12. doi:10.2967/jnumed.116.184028

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2017

1. Simon R. Cherry, Ramsey D. Badawi, Joel S. Karp, William W. Moses, Pat Price, Terry Jones. Total-body imaging: Transforming the role of positron emission tomography. Science Translational Medicine. 2017;9(381):eaaf6169. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf6169

2. Xuezhu Zhang, Jian Zhou, Simon R Cherry, Ramsey D Badawi, Jinyi Qi. Quantitative image reconstruction for total-body PET imaging using the 2-meter long EXPLORER scanner. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 2017;62(6):2465. doi:10.1088/1361-6560/aa5e46

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2016

1. Jeffrey P Schmall, Joel S Karp, Matt Werner, Suleman Surti. Parallax error in long-axial field-of-view PET scanners—a simulation study. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2016;61(14):5443-5455. doi:10.1088/0031-9155/61/14/5443

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2015

1. S Surti, J S Karp. Impact of detector design on imaging performance of a long axial field-of-view, whole-body PET scanner. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2015;60(13):5343-5358. doi:10.1088/0031-9155/60/13/5343

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2014

1. Patricia M. Price, Ramsey D. Badawi, Simon R. Cherry, Terry Jones. Ultra Staging to Unmask the Prescribing of Adjuvant Therapy in Cancer Patients: The Future Opportunity to Image Micrometastases Using Total-Body 18F-FDG PET Scanning. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine. 2014;55(4):696-697. doi:10.2967/jnumed.113.133892

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2012

1. Jonathan K Poon, Magnus L Dahlbom, William W Moses, Karthik Balakrishnan, Wenli Wang, Simon R Cherry, Ramsey D Badawi. Optimal whole-body PET scanner configurations for different volumes of LSO scintillator: a simulation study. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2012;57(13):4077-4094. doi:10.1088/0031-9155/57/13/4077