Evaluation of synthetically generated computed tomography for use in transcranial focused ultrasound procedures.

Han Liu Michelle K SigonaThomas J ManuelLi Min ChenBenoit M DawantCharles F Caskey

Published in: Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) (2023)

Real and synthetically generated skulls had comparable image similarity, skull measurements, and acoustic simulation metrics. Our work demonstrated similar results for 10 testing cases comparing MR-sCTs and rCTs for tFUS planning. Source code and a docker image with the trained model are available at https://github.com/han-liu/SynCT_TcMRgFUS.

Keyphrases

computed tomography
deep learning
contrast enhanced
positron emission tomography
magnetic resonance imaging
magnetic resonance
cerebral blood flow
machine learning