Selected Papers Ge First-Authored

  1. Wang G, Lin TH, Cheng PC, Shinozaki DM, Kim HG: Scanning cone-beam reconstruction algorithms for x-ray microtomography. Proc. SPIE Vol. 1556, p. 99-112, July 1991 (Scanning Microscopy Instrumentation, Gordon S. Kino; Ed.) (First paper on spiral cone-beam CT (posed the long object problem, introduced the spiral/helical cone-beam scanning mode, and developed approximate algorithms))
  2. Wang G, Lin TH, Cheng PC, Shinozaki DM: A general cone-beam reconstruction algorithm. IEEE Trans. on Med. Imaging 12:486-496, 1993 (TMI version of the above paper on spiral cone-beam CT)
  3. Wang G, Vannier MW: Longitudinal resolution in volumetric X-ray CT - Analytical comparison between conventional and helical CT. Med. Phys. 21:429-433, 1994 (First paper on superiority of single-slice spiral/helical CT relative to incremental CT)
  4. Wang G, Vannier MW: Stair-step artifacts in three-dimensional helical CT - An experimental study. Radiology 191:79-83, 1994 (First paper on stair-step artifacts)
  5. Wang G, Snyder DL, O'Sullivan JA, Vannier MW: Iterative deblurring for metal artifact reduction. IEEE Trans. on Med. Imaging 15:657-664, 1996 (Optimization framework to solve the metal artifacts problem)
  6. Wang G, Vannier MW, Skinner MW, Cavalcanti MGP, Harding G: Spiral CT image deblurring for cochlear implantation. IEEE Transactions on Med. Imaging 17:251-262, 1998 (Improved CT resolution by 30% retrospectively; TMI Logo was partly made from this paper, see Eq. 7, p. 254)
  7. Wang G, Vannier MW: GI tract unraveling by spiral CT. Proc. SPIE 2434:307-315, 1995 (First paper on unraveling-based CT colonography (GI tract unraveling/unwraping/disection))
  8. Wang G, McFarland EG, Brown BP, Vannier MW: GI tract unraveling with curved cross-sections. IEEE Transactions on Med. Imaging 17:318-322, 1998 (Novel approach for CT colonography (soft-unraveling-based CT colonography))
  9. Wang G, Li Y: Axiomatic approach for quantification of image resolution. IEEE Signal Processing Letters 6:257-258, 1999 (First paper on axiomatic resolution theory)
  10. Wang G, Vannier MW: The effect of pitch in multi-slice spiral/helical CT. Med. Phys. 26: 2648-2653, 1999 (First theoretical study on pitch of multi-slice spiral CT)
  11. Wang G, Crawford CR, Kalender WA: Multi-row-detector and cone-beam spiral/helical CT. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 19:817-821, 2000 (Editorial, an overview of the field)
  12. Wang G, Zhao SY, Heuscher D: A knowledge-based cone-beam X-ray CT algorithm for dynamic volumetric cardiac imaging. Med. Phys. 29:1807-1822, 2002 (Novel method for cardiac volumetric CT)
  13. Wang G, Hoffman EA, McLennan G, Wang LV, Suter M, Meinel JF et al.: Development of the first bioluminescent CT scanner. Radiology 229(P):566, 2003 (First publication on bioluminescence tomography)
  14. Wang G, Li Y, Jiang M: Uniqueness theorems in bioluminescence tomography. Med. Phys. 31:2289-2299, 2004 (First journal paper on bioluminescence tomography)
  15. Wang G, Liu Y, Ye Y, Zhao S, Hsieh J, Ge S: Top-level design and preliminary physical analysis for the first electron-beam micro-CT scanner. Journal of X-Ray Sci. and Tech. 12:251-260, 2004
  16. Wang G, Jiang M: Axiomatic characterization of nonlinear homomorphic means. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 303:350-363, 2005
  17. Wang G, Jaszczak R, Basilion J: Towards molecular imaging. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 24:829-831, 2005
  18. Wang G, Zhao S, Yu HY, Miller CM, Abbas PJ, Gantz B, Rubinstein J: Design, analysis and simulation for development of the first clinical micro-CT scanner. Academic Radiology 12:511-522, 2005
  19. Wang G, Cong WX, Kumar D, Qian X, Shen H, Sinn P, Hoffman E, McLennan G, Henry M: In vivo mouse studies with bioluminescence tomography. Optics Express 14:7801-7809, 2006
  20. Wang G, Shen HO, Cong WX, Zhao S, Wei GW: Temperature-modulated bioluminescence tomography. Optics Express 14:7852-7871, 2006
  21. Wang G, Ye Y, Yu HY: Approximate and exact cone-beam reconstruction with standard and non-standard spiral scanning.  Phys. Bio. & Med. 52:R1-R13, 2007

Selected Papers Ge Co-Authored

  1. Zhao SY, Welland G, Wang G: Wavelet sampling and localization schemes for the Radon transform in two dimensions. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 57:1749-1762, 1997
  2. Liu Y, Liu H, Wang Y, Wang G: Half-scan cone-beam CT fluoroscopy with multiple X-ray sources. Med. Phys. 28:1466-1471, 2001
  3. O'Sullivan JA, Jiang M, Ma XM, Wang G: Axiomatic quantification of multi-dimensional image resolution. IEEE Signal Processing Letters 9:120-122, 2002
  4. Lee SW, Cho G, Wang G: Artifacts associated with implementation of the Grangeat Formula. Med. Phys. 29:2871-2880, 2002
  5. Ye YB, Zhu JH, Wang G: A Point-wise limit theorem for filtered backprojection in computed tomography. Med. Phys. 30:816-822, 2003
  6. Jiang M, Wang G: Convergence of the Simultaneous Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (SART). IEEE Trans. Image Processing 12:957-961, 2003
  7. Jiang M, Wang G: Convergence studies on iterative algorithms for image reconstruction. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 22:569-579, 2003
  8. Meinel Jr. JF, Wang G, Jiang M, Frei T, Vannier MW, Hoffman EA: Spatial variation of resolution and noise in multi-slice spiral CT. Academic Radiology 10:607-613, 2003
  9. Jiang M, Wang G, Skinner MS, Rubinstein J, Vannier MW: Blind deblurring for spiral CT images. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 22:837-845, 2003
  10. Liu H, Sun LZ, Wang G, Vannier MW: Analytic modeling of breast elastography. Med. Phys. 30:2340-2349, 2003
  11. Lee SW, Wang G: A helical half-scan cone-beam CT algorithm for short object geometry in the Grangeat framework. Medical Physics 30:689-700, 2003
  12. Ye YB, Zhao SY, Yu HY, Wang G: Exact reconstruction for cone-beam scanning along nonstandard spirals and other curves. Proc. of SPIE 5535:293-300, Aug. 6, 2004
    (First proof of the general validity of the backprojection-filtration formula developed by Zou & Pan)
  13. Ye Y, Wang G: A filtered backprojection formula for exact image reconstruction from cone-beam data along a general scanning curve. Med. Phys. 32:42-48, 2005 (Exact cone-beam reconstruction in a filtered-backprojection format assuming a general smooth scanning curve; the filtering direction condition allows as special cases the formulas developed by Katsevich, Zou & Pan, respectively)
  14. Zhao S, Yu H, Wang G: A unified framework for exact cone-beam image reconstruction formulas. Med. Phys. 32:1712-1721, 2005
  15. Jiang M, Wang G, Ma XM: A general axiomatic system for image resolution quantification. To appear in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 2005
  16. Cong WX, Wang G: Kumar D, Liu Y, Jiang M, Wang LH, Hoffman EA, McLennan G, McCray PB, Zabner J, Cong A: A practical reconstruction method for bioluminescence tomography. Optics Express 13:6756-6771, 2005 (First technical journal paper on bioluminescence tomography dealing with heterogeneous structures)
  17. Ye Y, Zhao S, Yu H, Wang G: A general exact reconstruction for cone-beam CT via backprojection-filtration. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 24:1190-1198, 2005
  18. Liu Y, Sun LZ, Wang G: Tomography-based 3-D anisotropic elastography using boundary measurements IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 24:1323-1333, 2005
  19. Wei YC, Hsieh J, Wang G: General formula for fan-beam computed tomography. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95:258102, 2005
  20. Han, W, Kazmi K, Cong WX, Wang G: Bioluminescence tomography with optimized optical parameters.  To appear in Inverse Problems, 2007

Nice Papers Ge Wang Not Authored

  1. Radon J: Uber die bestimmung von funktionen durch ihre integralwerte langs gewisser mannigfaltigkeiten. Berichte Sachsische Akademie der Wissenschaften 69:262-267, 1917
  2. Hounsfield GN: Computerized transverse axial scanning (tomography). 1. Description of system. Br. J. Radiol. 46:1016-1022, 1973
  3. Shepp LA, Vardi Y: Maximum likelihood reconstruction for emission tomography. IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 1:113-122, 1982
  4. Tuy HK: An inversion formula for cone-beam reconstruction. SIAM J. Appl. Math. 43:546-552, 1983
  5. Feldkamp LA, Davis LC, Kress JW: Practical cone-beam algorithm. J. Opt. Soc. Am. 1(A):612-619, 1984
  6. Smith BD: Image reconstruction from cone-beam projections: necessary and sufficient conditions and reconstruction methods. IEEE Trans. Med. Imag. 4:14-28, 1985
  7. Grangeat P: Mathematical framework of cone beam 3D reconstruction via the first derivative of the Radon transform. In "Mathematical Methods in Tomography, Lecture Notes in Mathematics", editors Herman GT, Louis AK, Natterer F, Springer-Verlag, New York, 66-97, 1991
  8. Tam KC, Samarasekera S, Sauer F: Exact cone beam CT with a spiral scan. Phys. Med. Biol. 43:1015-1024, 1998
  9. Defrise M, Noo F, Kudo H: A solution to the long-object problem in helical cone-beam tomography. Phys. Med. Biol. 45:623-643, 2000
  10. Katsevich A: A general scheme for constructing inversion algorithms for cone beam CT. Int'l J. of Math. and Math. Sci. 21:1305-1321, 2003
  11. Ntziachristos V, Ripoll J, Wang LV, Weissleder R: Looking and listening to light: the evolution of whole-boday photonic imaging. Nature Biotechnology 23:313-320, 2005 (with a section "Bioluminescence tomography" commenting on our molecular imaging work)