Publications – Intelligent X-ray Imaging Lab

Selected Journal Articles: 2011 – 2024

Zhicong Yu, Shuai Leng, Zhoubo Li, and Cynthia McCollough. “Spectral prior image constrained compressed sensing (Spectral PICCS) for photon-counting computed tomography.” Phys. Med. Biol. 61, no. 18 (2016): 6707-6732.
Zhicong Yu, Günter Lauritsch, Frank Dennerlein, Yanfei Mao, Joachim Hornegger, and Frédéric Noo. “Extended ellipse-line-ellipse trajectory for long-object cone-beam imaging with a mounted C-arm system.” Phys. Med. Biol. 61, no. 4 (2016): 1829-1851.
Zhicong Yu, Shuai Leng, Steve Jorgensen, Zhoubo Li, Ralf Gutjahr, Baiyu Chen, Ahmed Halaweish, Steffen Kappler, Lifeng Yu, Erik Ritman, and Cynthia McCollough. “Evaluation of conventional imaging performance in a research whole-body CT system with a photon-counting detector array.” Phys. Med. Biol. 61, no. 4 (2016): 1572-1595. (2021 Rotblat medal, prize for the highest cited paper over the five-year period 2016-2020)
Zhicong Yu, Andreas Maier, Günter Lauritsch, Florian Vogt, Manfred Schönborn, Christoph Köhler, Joachim Hornegger, and Frédéric Noo. “Axially extended-volume C-arm CT using a reverse helical trajectory in the interventional room.” IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 34, no. 1 (2015): 203-215.
Zhicong Yu, Frédéric Noo, Frank Dennerlein, Adam Wunderlich, Günter Lauritsch, and Joachim Hornegger. “Simulation tools for two-dimensional experiments in x-ray computed tomography using the FORBILD head phantom.” Phys. Med. Biol. 57, no. 13 (2012): N237-N252.
Zhicong Yu, Adam Wunderlich, Frank Dennerlein, Günter Lauritsch, and Frédéric Noo. “Line plus arc source trajectories and their R-line coverage for long-object cone-beam imaging with a C-arm system.” Phys. Med. Biol. 56, no. 12 (2011): 3447-3471. (Featured article, finalist of Roberts Prize for the best papers published in PMB 2011)

Selected Patents: 2011 – 2024

Zhicong Yu, Amit Jain, Daniel Gagnon, and Jacob Shea. “Optimized scanning methods and tomography system using region of interest data.” U.S. patent 11,364,007, issued June 21,2022.
Zhicong Yu, and Daniel Gagnon. “Computed tomography system and method for image improvement using prior image.” U.S. Patent 11,337,668 issued May 24,2022.
Zhicong Yu, Chuanyong Bai, Amit Jain, Daniel Gagnon, Jacob Shea, Wenli Wang, and Calvin Maurer. “Method and apparatus for image reconstruction and correction using inter-fractional information.” U.S. Patent 11,191,511, issued December 7, 2021.
Zhicong Yu, and Daniel Gagnon. “Helical cone-beam computed tomography imaging with an off-centered detector.” U.S. Patent 11,179,132 issued Nov. 23^rd, 2021.
Zhicong Yu, Stanislav Zabic. “Systems and methods for image reconstruction.” U.S. Patent 11,182,898 issued Nov 23^rd, 2021.
Zhicong Yu, Chuanyong Bai, Amit Jain, and Daniel Gagnon. “Method and apparatus for scatter estimation in cone-beam computed tomography.” U.S. Patent 11,160,526 issued Nov. 2^nd, 2021.

Selected Conference Articles: 2011 – 2024

Zhicong Yu, Georgios Prekas and Daniel Gagnon. “Principal Component Analysis for Assessing Spectral Performance of Photon-Counting Detectors – Spectral Distance Index”, In: Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Image Formation in X-ray Computed Tomography, p400, 2024, Bamberg, Germany.
Zhicong Yu, Amit Jain, Chuanyong Bai and Daniel Gagnon. “A Constrained Curve-Fitting Method for Scatter Estimation for Helical CBCT.” In: Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Image Formation in X-ray Computed Tomography, p566, 2020, Regensburg, Germany.
Zhicong Yu, Chuanyong Bai and Daniel Gagnon. “Double-helix trajectory for image guide radiation therapy: Geometry and Image Reconstruction.” In: Proc. SPIE 11072, 15^th International Meeting on Fully-3D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, p110721Y, 28 May 2019, Pennsylvania, USA.
Zhicong Yu, Patrick Kling, Wenjing Cao, Lu Wang, Mark Magalotti, Chunfeng Qian, Rengcai Yang, and Stanislav Zabic. “Coherent norm regularization for edge correction in low-dose iterative image reconstruction.” In: Proc. of the 14^th International Meeting on Fully-3D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, p743, 2017, Xi’an, China.
Zhicong Yu, Guenter Lauritsch, Joachim Hornegger, Frederic Noo. “Efficient and exact C-arm cone-beam imaging for axially extended field-of-view using the ellipse-line-ellipse trajectory.” In: Proc. of the 3^rd International Conference on Image Formation in X-ray Computed Tomography, p. 311, 2014, Salt Lake City, USA.
Zhicong Yu, Frederic Noo, Guenter Lauritsch, Andreas Maier, Frank Dennerlein, and Joachim Hornegger. “Shift-invariant cone-beam reconstruction outside R-lines with a disconnected source trajectory.” In: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, pp. 3447, 2012, Anaheim, USA.