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A differentiable forward projection model is incorporated to explicitly model TOF-PET imaging physics and enable reconstruction directly in the INR domain. To suppress noise and promote spatial smoothness, a ray-based total variation regularization is introduced. The reconstruction network combines a multi-resolution hash encoder with a prior-image encoder that injects structural image priors into the INR representation.\n                    <jats:italic>Main results.<\/jats:italic>\n                    The proposed framework was evaluated using simulated brain and whole-body datasets as well as clinical TOF-PET scans. 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