CT with a CMOS flat panel detector integrated on the YAP-(S)PET scanner for in vivo small animal imaging
✍ Scribed by Giovanni Di Domenico; Nicola Cesca; Guido Zavattini; Natalia Auricchio; Mauro Gambaccini
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 327 KB
- Volume
- 571
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
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✦ Synopsis
Several research groups are pursuing multimodality simultaneous functional and morphological imaging. In this line of research the high resolution YAP-(S)PET small animal integrated PET-SPECT imaging system, constructed by our group of medical physics at the University of Ferrara, is being upgraded with a computed tomography (CT). In this way it will be possible to perform in vivo molecular and genomic imaging studies on small animals (such as mice and rats) and at the same time obtain morphological information necessary for both attenuation correction and accurate localization of the region under investigation. We have take simultaneous PET-CT and SPECT-CT images of phantoms obtained with a single scanner.