PUBLICATIONS

REVIEWS:

J. Qi and R. M. Leahy, "Iterative reconstruction techniques in emission computed tomography," Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 51, pp. R541-R578, 2006 (invited).

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

1.      G. Wang, L. Fu, and J. Qi, " Maximum a posteriori reconstruction of Patlak parametric image from sinograms in dynamic PET," Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 53, pp. 593-604, 2008.

2.      J. R. Stickel, J. Qi, and S. R. Cherry, " Fabrication and characterization of a 0.5 mm LSO detector array for high resolution PET applications," Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 48, pp. 115-121, 2007.

3.      C. Catana, Y. Wu, M. S. Judenhofer, J. Qi, B. J. Pichler, and S. R. Cherry, " Simultaneous Acquisition of MultiSlice PET and MR Images - Initial Results with a MR-Compatible PET Scanner, " Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 47, pp. 1968-1976, 2006.

4.      J. S. Huber, W. S. Choong, W. W. Moses, J. Qi, J. Hu, G. C. Wang, D. Wilson, S. Oh, R. H. Huesman, S. E. Derenzo, and T. F. Budinger, "Initial Results of a Positron Tomograph for Prostate Imaging," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 53, pp. 2653-2659, 2006.

5.      J. Qi, "Calculation of the sensitivity image for list mode reconstruction," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 53, pp. 2746-2751, 2006.

6.      J. Qi and R. H. Huesman. "Penalized maximum-likelihood image reconstruction for lesion detection," Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 51, pp. 4017-4029, 2006.

7.      J. Qi, "Investigation of Lesion Detection in MAP Reconstruction with Non-Gaussian Priors," International Journal on Biomedical Imaging, vol. 2006, Article ID 87567, 2006.

8.      J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Theoretical study of penalized-likelihood image reconstruction for region of interest quantification," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 25, pp. 640-648, 2006.

9.      R. Namba, L. Young, C. Abbey, L. Kim, A. Borowsky, J. Qi, S. Cherry, C.Tepper, R. Cardiff, and J. Gregg, "Rapamycin inhibits growth of premalignant and malignant mammary lesions in a mouse model of DCIS," Clinical Cancer Research, Vol. 12, No. 8, pp. 2613-2621, 2006.

10.  G-C Wang, J. S. Huber, W. W. Moses, J. Qi, and W-S Choong, "Characterization of the LBNL PEM camera," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 53, pp. 1129-1135, 2006.

11.  J. Qi, "Comparison of statistical reconstructions with isotropic and anisotropic resolution," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 53, pp. 147-151, 2006.

12.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Effect of errors in the system matrix on iterative image reconstruction," Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 50, pp. 3297-3312, 2005.

13.  J. Hu, K. Tam, and J. Qi, "An approximate short scan helical FDK cone beam algorithm based on nutating curved surfaces satisfying the Tuy's condition," Medical Physics, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 1527-1536, 2005.

14.  J. Qi, "Noise propagation in iterative image reconstruction with line searches," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 57-62, 2005.

15.  J. Qi, J. S. Huber, R. H. Huesman, W. W. Moses, S. E. Derenzo, and T. F. Budinger, "Septa design for a prostate specific PET camera," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 107-113, 2005.

16.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Propagation of errors from the efficiency image in list mode reconstruction," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 23, No. 9, pp. 1094-1099, 2004.

17.  Q. Li, E. Asma, J. Qi, and R. M. Leahy, "Accurate estimation of Fisher information matrix in MAP reconstruction," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 23, No. 9, pp. 1057-1064, 2004.

18.  W. W. Moses and J. Qi, "Instrumentation optimization for positron emission mammography," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 527, No. 1-2, pp. 76-82, 2004.

19.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Wavelet crosstalk matrix and its application to assessment of shift-variant imaging systems," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 51, No.1, pp. 123-129, 2004.

20.  J. Qi, "Analysis of Lesion Detectability in Bayesian Emission Reconstruction with Non-stationary Object Variability," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 321-329, 2004.

(Pre-2004)

21.  J. Qi, "A Unified Noise Analysis for Iterative Image Estimation," Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 48, pp. 3505-3519, 2003.

22.  J. S. Huber, W. S. Choong, J. Wang, J. S. Maltz, J. Qi, E. Mandelli, and W. W. Moses, "Development of the LBNL positron emission mammography camera," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 50, No. 5, pp. 1650-1653, 2003.

23.  W. W. Moses and J. Qi, "Fundamental limits of positron emission mammography," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Vol. 497, No. 1, pp. 82-89, 2003.

24.  J. Qi, R. H. Huesman, G. J. Klein, C. Kuo, W. W. Moses, and B. W. Reutter, "Comparison of Rectangular and Planar Positron Emission Mammography Scanners," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 2089-2096, 2002.

25.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Scatter Correction for Positron Emission Mammography," Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 47, No. 15, pp. 2759-2772, 2002.

26.  D. Shattuck, J. Rapela, E. Asma, A. Chatziioannou, J. Qi, and R. Leahy, "Internet2-based 3D PET Image Reconstruction using A PC Cluster," Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 47, No. 15, pp. 2785-2796, 2002.

27.  T. E. Nichols, J. Qi, E Asma, and R. M. Leahy, "Spatiotemporal reconstruction of list mode PET data," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 396-404, 2002.

28.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Theoretical study of lesion detectability of MAP reconstruction using computer observers," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp. 815-822, 2001.

29.  P. R. G. Virador, W. W. Moses, R. H. Huesman, and J. Qi, "3D Reconstruction in PET Cameras with Irregular Sampling and Depth of Interaction," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 1524-1529, 2001.

30.  J. S. Huber, S. E. Derenzo, J. Qi, W. W. Moses, R. H. Huesman, and T. F. Budinger, "Conceptual Design of a Compact Positron Tomograph for Prostate Imaging," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 1506-1511, 2001.

31.  J. Qi, G. J. Klein, and R. H. Huesman, "Image Properties of List Mode Likelihood Reconstruction for a Rectangular Positron Emission Mammography with DOI Measurements," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 1343-1349, 2001.

32.  J. Qi, "Optimization of PET System Design for Lesion Detection," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 1470-1476, 2001.

33.  P. Bonetto, J. Qi and R. M. Leahy, "Covariance approximation for fast and accurate computation of Channelized Hotelling Observer Statistics," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 1567-1572, 2000.

34.  R. H. Huesman, G. J. Klein, W. W. Moses, J. Qi, B.W. Reutter, and P. R. G. Virador, "List mode maximum likelihood reconstruction applied to positron emission mammography with irregular sampling," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 532-537, 2000.

35.  A. Chatziioannou, J. Qi, A. Annala, A. Moore, R. M. Leahy, and S. R. Cherry, "Comparison of 3D MAP and FBP algorithms for image reconstruction in microPET," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 507-512, 2000.

36.  J. Qi and R. M. Leahy, "Resolution and noise properties MAP reconstruction for fully 3D PET," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 493-506, 2000.

37.  R. M. Leahy and J. Qi, "Statistical approaches in quantitative positron emission tomography," Statistics and Computing, invited paper, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 147-165, 2000.

38.  T. H. Farquhar, J. Llacer, C. K. Hoh, J. Czernin, S. S. Gambhir, M. A. Seltzer, D. H. S. Silverman, J. Qi, C. Hsu, and E. J. Hoffman, "ROC and localization ROC analyses of lesion detection in whole-body FDG PET: effects of acquisition mode, attenuation correction and reconstruction algorithm," Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 40, No. 12, pp. 2043-2052, 1999.

39.  J. Qi and R. M. Leahy, "A theoretical study of the contrast recovery and variance of MAP reconstructions from PET data," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 293-305, 1999.

40.  J. Qi, R. M. Leahy, C-H Hsu, T. H. Farquhar, and S. R. Cherry, "Fully 3D Bayesian image reconstruction for the ECAT EXACT HR+," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 1096-1103, 1998.

41.  J. Qi, R. M. Leahy, S. R. Cherry, A. Chatziioannou, and T. H. Farquhar, "High resolution 3D Bayesian image reconstruction using the microPET small animal scanner," Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 1001-1013, 1998.

42.  Z. Zhou, R. M. Leahy, and J. Qi, "Approximate maximum likelihood hyperparameter estimation for Gibbs priors," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 6, pp. 844-861, 1997.

43.  J. Qi, S. Gao, and F. Yang, "An assessment on the wideband and narrowband methods for ultrasonic blood flow measurements," Chinese Journal of Acoustics. Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 59-70, 1997. (in English)

44.  Y. An, Y. Huang, J. Qi, Y. Chao, M. Li, and S. Gao, "A new digital scan converter with high performance cost ratio," Chinese Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 189-191, 1993.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND ABSTRACTS

1.      G. Wang and J. Qi, "Analysis of Penalized Likelihood Reconstruction for PET Kinetic Quantification," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2007.

2.      M. Tohme and J. Qi, "Estimation of Detector Response Function for PET from Point Source Measurements: Effect of Point Source Configuration," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2007.

3.      J. Liao and J. Qi, "PET Image Reconstruction with Shape Prior Using Multiphase Level Set Method," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2007.

4.      L. Fu, J. R. Stickel, R. Badawi, and J. Qi, "Evaluation of theoretical prediction of ROI quantification performance for MAP reconstruction," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2007.

5.      C. Catana, Y. Wu, D. Procissi, M. S. Judenhofer, J. Qi, B. J. Pichler, R. E. Jacobs, and S. R. Cherry, "Simultaneous In Vivo Imaging With Positron Emission Tomography And Magnetic Resonance Imaging," Joint Molecular Imaging Conference, Providence, R. H.ode Island, 2007.

6.      Y. Yang, Y. Wu, J. Qi, S. James, R. Farrell, P. A. Dokhale, K. S. Shah, and S. R. Cherry, "Development of a Preclinical PET Scanner with Depth-Encoding Detectors," Joint Molecular Imaging Conference, Providence, R. H.ode Island, 2007.

7.      H. Zhang, J. Kusunose, A. Kheirolomoom, E. Ruoslahti, J. Qi, J. L. Sutcliffe1, and K. W. Ferrara, "Effective Targeting of Liposomes to Heart In Vivo by Incorporation of Heart-homing Peptide," Joint Molecular Imaging Conference, Providence, R. H.ode Island, 2007.

8.      L. Fu, G. Wang, and J. Qi, "Direct Maximum a posteriori Reconstruction of Patlak Parametric Image for Fully 3D Dynamic PET," International Conference on Fully 3D Reconstruction in Radiology, 2007.

9.      G. Wang and J. Qi, "Maximum a posteriori Reconstruction Of Patlak Parametric Image From Sinograms In Dynamic PET," IEEE ISBI, 2007.

10.  . Tohme and J. Qi, "High-resolution image reconstruction for PET using estimated detector response functions," in Computational Imaging V, CA Bouman, EL Miller, I Pollak eds, Proceedings of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, SPIE Vol. 6498, Acticle CID 649819 (2007).

11.  I.S. Yetik and J. Qi, "A Fast Method for Kinetic Parameter Estimation," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2006.

12.  G. Wang and J. Qi, "Spatially Penalized Methods for Linear Parametric Imaging," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2006.

13.  M. Tohme and J. Qi, "Experimental Evaluation of System Models for PET with Block Detectors," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2006.

14.  J. Liao and J. Qi, "Dynamic PET Image Segmentation Using Multi-Phase Level Set Method," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2006.

15.  L. Fu, J. Liao, and J. Qi, "Evaluation of 2D Iterative ROI Image Reconstruction with ML-EM method from Truncated Projections," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2006.

16.  J. S. Huber, W. S. Choong, W. W. Moses, J. Qi, J. Hu, G. C. Wang, D. Wilson, R. H. Huesman, and T. F. Budinger, "Prostate Imaging with the LBNL Prostate-Optimized Positron Emission Tomography," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2006.

17.  Y. Wu, K. Yang, L. Fu, V.-H. Tran, J. Qi, J. M. Boone, S. R. Cherry, and R. D. Badawi, "Characteristics of the PET Component of a Dedicated Breast PET/CT Scanner Prototype," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2006.

18.  C. Catana, Y. Wu, M. Judenhofer, J. Qi, B. Pichler, P. Dokhale, K. S. Shah, R. Farrell, and S. Cherry, "Initial Performance Tests of a PSAPD-Based MRI Compatible PET Scanner," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2006.

19.  M. S. Tartis, J. Marik, A. Kheirolomoom, R. E. Pollard, H. Zhang, J. Qi, J. L. Sutcliffe, and K. W. Ferrara, "Pharmacokinetics of encapsulated paclitaxel: multi-probe analysis with PET," Society of Molecular Imaging, 2006.

20.  C. Catana, Y. Wu, M. Judenhofer, J. Qi, B. Pichler, and S. Cherry, "Simultaneous acquisition of multi-slice PET and MR images with a MR-Compatible PET insert," Society of Molecular Imaging, 2006

21.  J. Qi, "Maximum-likelihood estimation of detector response for PET," IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual Conference, 2006.

22.  J. Qi and L. Fu, "Fully 3D MAP Reconstruction for microPET Data with Continuous Bed Motion," SNM 2006 (abstract).

23.  J. S. Huber, W. W. Moses, R. H. Huesman, J. Hu, J. Qi, W. S. Choong, D. Wilson, J. Pouliot, I. C. Hsu, and T. F. Budinger "Prostate Imaging with LBNL Prostate-Optimized Positron Emission Tomograph" SNM 2006 (abstract).

24.  G. T. Gullberg, J. Hu, A. Sitek, B. W. Reutter, R. H. Huesman, S. Hanrahan, H. VanBrocklin, K. Brennan, J. Qi, Y. Yang, "A Study of Changes in Glucose and Fatty Acid Metabolism in the Heart as a Function Of Hypertrophy in SHR Rats Using microPET and microSPECT Technology," SNM 2006 (abstract).

25.  G. Wang and J. Qi, "Investigation Of Lesion Detectability In Dynamic PET Data Sets", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Arlington, VA, 2006.

26.  I. S. Yetik and J. Qi, "Direct Estimation Of Kinetic Parameters From The Sinogram With An Unknown Blood Function", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Arlington, VA, 2006.

27.  J. Qi, "Calculation of the Sensitivity Image in List-Mode Reconstruction," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Puerto Rico, 2005.

28.  J. Qi, "Investigation of Lesion Detection in MAP Reconstruction with Non-Gaussian Priors," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Puerto Rico, 2005.

29.  J. S. Huber, W.-S. Choong, W. W. Moses, J. Qi, J. Hu, G.-C. Wang, D. Wilson, S. Oh, R. H. Huesman, and S. E. Derenzo, "Characterization of a PET Camera Optimized for Prostate Imaging," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Puerto Rico, 2005.

30.  J. Hu, J. Qi, J. S. Huber, W. W. Moses, and R. H. Huesman, "MAP image reconstruction for arbitrary geometry PET systems with application to a prostate-specific scanner," International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2005.

31.  J. Qi, "Statistical image reconstruction with a noisy system matrix", IS&T/SPIE 15th Annual Symposium: Electronics Imaging, San Jose, CA, 2005 (invited).

32.  J. Qi, "Statistical Image Reconstruction for Lesion Detection," Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, 2004 (invited).

33.  R. H. Huesman, J. Qi, D. Samaras, Y. Wang, L. Yang, W. Zhang, R. Ferrieri, P. Vaska, and D. Schlyer, "Direct List Mode Reconstruction for Motion Compensation," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, 2004.

34.  G.-C. Wang, J. S. Huber, W. W. Moses, J. Qi, and W.-S. Choong, "Characterization of the LBNL PEM Camera," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, 2004.

35.  J. S. Huber, W.-S. Choong, W. W. Moses, J. Qi, J. Hu, G. C. Wang, D. Wilson, S. Oh, and S. E. Derenzo, "Initial Results of a Compact Positron Tomograph for Prostate Imaging," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, 2004.

36.  J. Hu, K. Tam, R. Johnson, and J. Qi, "A Short Scan Helical FDK Cone Beam Algorithm Based on Surfaces Satisfying the Tuy's Condition," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, 2004.

37.  J. Qi, "Comparison of statistical reconstructions with isotropic and anisotropic resolution," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, 2004.

38.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Effect of errors in the system matrix on iterative image reconstruction," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, 2004.

39.  Y. Yang, J. Qi, and S. R. Cherry, "Detection limits for small animal PET imaging with the microPET II scanner," Society of Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, 2004.

40.  G. T. Gullberg, R. H. Huesman, J. Qi, B. W. Reutter, A. Sitek, and Y. Yang, "Evaluation of Cardiac Hypertrophy in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats Using Metabolic Rate of Glucose Estimated from Dynamic MicroPET Image Data," Society of Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, 2004.

41.  J. Qi, "Optimization of a PET scanner design for prostate lesion detection," IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual International Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2004.

42.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Maximum-Lesion-Detectability Reconstruction Using Penalized Maximum Likelihood," IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Arlington, VA, 2004.

43.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Fast approach to the evaluation of MAP reconstruction for lesion detection and location," SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA, 2004.

(pre-2004)

44.  G. T. Gullberg, R. H. Huesman, D. N. Ghosh Roy, J. Qi, and B. W. Reutter, "Estimation of the parameter covariance matrix for a one-compartment cardiac perfusion model estimated from a dynamic sequence reconstructed using MAP iterative reconstruction algorithms," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Portland, OR, 2003.

45.  J. A. Kimdon, J. Qi, and W. W. Moses, "Effect of random and scatter fraction in variance reduction using time-of-flight information," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Portland, OR, 2003.

46.  Q. Li, E. Asma, J. Qi, and R. M. Leahy, "Accurate estimation of Fisher information matrix in MAP reconstruction," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Portland, OR, 2003.

47.  J. Qi, J. S. Huber, R. H. Huesman, W. W. Moses, S. E. Derenzo, and T. F. Budinger, "Septa design for a prostate specific PET camera," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Portland, OR, 2003.

48.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Propagation of errors from the efficiency image in list mode reconstruction," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Portland, OR, 2003.

49.  J. Qi, "Noise propagation in iterative image reconstruction," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Portland, OR, 2003.

50.  J. Qi, "Theoretical evaluation of the detectability of random lesions in Bayesian emission reconstruction," Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Ambleside, UK, 2003.

51.  J. Qi, R. H. Huesman, and B. W. Reutter, "Comparison of different CT-based attenuation correction schemes for PET with respiratory motion," Annual Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine, New Orleans, LA, 2003.

52.  J. Qi, "Optimization of Bayesian tomographic reconstruction for region of interest quantitation," IS&T/SPIE 15th Annual Symposium: Electronics Imaging, Santa Clara, CA, 2003.

53.  J. S. Huber, J. Qi, S. E. Derenzo, W. W. Moses, R. H. Huesman, and T. F. Budinger, "The development of a compact positron tomograph for prostate imaging," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Norfolk, VA, 2002.

54.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Wavelet crosstalk matrix and its application to assessment of shift-variant imaging systems," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Norfolk, VA, 2002.

55.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "List mode reconstruction for PET with motion compensation," IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Washington DC, July 2002.

56.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Correction of motion in PET using event-based rebinning method: pitfall and solution," the 49th Annual Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, June 2002.

57.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Lesion detectability of positron emission mammography," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA, 2001.

58.  J. Qi, R. H. Huesman, G. J. Klein, C Kuo, W. W. Moses, and B. W. Reutter, "Comparison of Rectangular and Planar Positron Emission Mammography Scanners," IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA, 2001.

59.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Scatter Correction for Positron Emission Mammography," in the Sixth International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Pacific Grove, California, 2001.

60.  D. Shattuck, J. Rapela, E. Asma, A. Chatziioannou, J. Qi, and R. Leahy, "Internet-based 3D PET Image Reconstruction using A Beowulf PC Cluster," in the Sixth International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Pacific Grove, California, 2001.

61.  G. Glatting, T. Kull, J. Ruckgaber, R. Weller, J. Qi, R. M. Leahy, and S. N. Reske, "Evaluierung der Kenndaten verschiedener Rekonstruktionsverfahren fur 3D-Daten des ECAT EXACT HR+ Positronen-Emissions-Tomographen," Nuklearmedizin 2001, 40: A28 (abstract).

62.  P. R. G. Virador, W. W. Moses, R. H. Huesman, and J. Qi , "3D Reconstruction in PET Cameras with Irregular Sampling and Depth of Interaction," in Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Lyon, France, 2000.

63.  E. Asma, T. E. Nichols, J. Qi, and R. M. Leahy, "4D PET Image Reconstruction from List Mode Data," in Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Lyon, France, 2000.

64.  J. S. Huber, S. E. Derenzo, J. Qi, W. W. Moses, R. H. Huesman, and T. F. Budinger, "Conceptual Design of a Compact Positron Tomograph for Prostate Imaging," in Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Lyon, France, 2000.

65.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Image Properties of List Mode Likelihood Reconstruction for a Rectangular Positron Emission Mammography with DOI Measurements," in Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Lyon, France, 2000.

66.  J. Qi, "Optimization of PET System Design for Lesion Detection," in Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Lyon, France, 2000.

67.  J. Qi and R. H. Huesman, "Lesion detectability of MAP reconstruction using computer observer: A Theoretical Study," in Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine, St. Louis, MO; Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 41, pp. 18p-19p, May 2000 (abstract).

68.  P. Bonetto, J. Qi, and R. M. Leahy, "Covariance approximation for fast and accurate computation of Channelized Hotelling Observer Statistics," in Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Seattle, WA, 1999.

69.  D. Banerjee, J. Qi, and R. M. Leahy, "A Comparative Study of 3D Statistical Reconstruction with 2D Statistical Reconstruction of Rebinned PET Data," presented at the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Seattle, WA, 1999.

70.  A. Chatziioannou, J. Qi, A. Annala, A. Moore, R. M. Leahy, and S. R. Cherry, "Quantitative evaluation of 3D MAP and FBP Algorithms for image reconstruction in microPET," in Proceedings of International Meeting on Fully 3D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands, 1999.

71.  J. Qi and R. M. Leahy, "Resolution and noise properties of MAP reconstruction for fully 3D PET," in Proceedings of International Meeting on Fully 3D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands, 1999.

72.  T. E. Nichols, J. Qi, and R. M. Leahy, "Dynamic PET imaging using list mode data," in Proceedings of the XVIth International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Visegrad, Hungary, 1999.

73.  J. Qi and R. M. Leahy, "Fast Estimation of the Covariance of Fully 3D Bayesian Reconstructions in PET," in Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 40, pp. 32p, May 1999 (abstract).

74.  J. Qi and R. M. Leahy, "Fast computation of the covariance of MAP reconstructions in PET," in Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 3661, San Diego, CA, 1999.

75.  J. Qi and R. M. Leahy, "A Theoretical Study of the Contrast Recovery and Variance of MAP Reconstructions with Applications to the Selection of Smoothing Parameters," in Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Toronto, Canada, 1998.

76.  C-H Hsu and J. Qi, "A study of lesion contrast recovery for statistical PET image reconstruction with accurate system models," in Proceedings of SPIE, San Diego, CA, 1998.

77.  J. Qi, R. M. Leahy, C-H Hsu, S. R. Cherry, and T. H. Farquhar, "Fully 3D Bayesian image reconstruction for ECAT HR+," in Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 1997.

78.  J. Qi, R. M. Leahy, E. U. Mumcuoglu, S. R. Cherry, A. Chatziioannou, and T. H. Farquhar, "High resolution 3D Bayesian image reconstruction for microPET," in International Meeting on Fully 3D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Nemacolin Woodlands, PA, 1997.

79.  J. Qi, S. Gao, and F. Yang, "A likelihood estimator for blood flood measurement," in Proceedings of the Fourth Asia Federation Symposium for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Beijing, China, 1995.

80.  S. Gao, J. Qi, and H. Liu, "The resolution enhancement of ultrasound image by deconvolution," Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 20, pp. S85, 1994 (abstract).