Small animal PET: a review of what we have done and where we are going

RS Miyaoka, AL Lehnert - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Small animal research is an essential tool in studying both pharmaceutical biodistribution
and disease progression over time. Furthermore, through the rapid development of in vivo …

Performance evaluation of a high-resolution brain PET scanner using four-layer MPPC DOI detectors

M Watanabe, A Saito, T Isobe, K Ote… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A high-resolution positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, dedicated to brain studies,
was developed and its performance was evaluated. A four-layer depth of interaction detector …

Simultaneous assessment of rodent behavior and neurochemistry using a miniature positron emission tomograph

D Schulz, S Southekal, SS Junnarkar, JF Pratte… - nAture …, 2011 - nature.com
Positron emission tomography (PET) neuroimaging and behavioral assays in rodents are
widely used in neuroscience. PET gives insights into the molecular processes of neuronal …

Small animal simultaneous PET/MRI: initial experiences in a 9.4 T microMRI

SH Maramraju, SD Smith, SS Junnarkar… - Physics in Medicine …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We developed a non-magnetic positron-emission tomography (PET) device based on the rat
conscious animal PET that operates in a small-animal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …

Integrating PET with behavioral neuroscience using RatCAP tomography

D Schulz, P Vaska - 2011 - degruyter.com
Behavioral studies are an important part of neuroscience. They allow inferences about the
functions of the brain and any internal states and processes it controls. Positron emission …

Software-based real-time acquisition and processing of PET detector raw data

B Goldschmidt, D Schug, CW Lerche… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In modern positron emission tomography (PET) readout architectures, the position and
energy estimation of scintillation events (singles) and the detection of coincident events …

Design of a real-time FPGA-based data acquisition architecture for the LabPET II: An APD-based scanner dedicated to small animal PET imaging

L Njejimana, MA Tétrault, L Arpin… - … on Nuclear Science, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The LabPET II detector block was designed to achieve submillimeter spatial resolution in
small animal PET imaging. Each detection block consists of two arrays of 4× 8 avalanche …

Timing offset calibration for TOF PET using stationary line source scans at multiple positions

A Li, X Zhang, X Zhou, L Fang, J Hu, B Li… - Physics in Medicine …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Background. Accurate timing offset calibration is crucial for time-of-flight (TOF) positron
emission tomography (PET) to mitigate image artifacts and improve quantitative accuracy …

System architecture of the LabPET small animal PET scanner

MAÉ Tetrault, N Viscogliosi, J Riendeau… - … on Nuclear Science, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To address modern molecular imaging requirements, a digital positron emission
tomography (PET) scanner for small animals has been developed at Universite de …

Robust timing calibration for PET using L1-norm minimization

DL Freese, DFC Hsu, D Innes… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) relies on accurate timing information to pair two 511-
keV photons into a coincidence event. Calibration of time delays between detectors …