✅ Function: High-sensitivity preclinical PET scanner optimized for small animal brain imaging.
✅ Key Specifications:
- Bore Diameter: 12.0 cm
- Axial Field of View (FoV): 7.8 cm
- Transaxial FoV: 10.0 cm
- Spatial Resolution: 1.8 mm at the center of the FoV
- Sensitivity: 2%
✅ Detector Configuration:
- 4 rings of 24 detector blocks
- Each block contains 8×8 Lutetium Orthosilicate (LSO) crystals (2.1 × 2.1 × 10 mm³)
✅ Imaging Capabilities:
- Small doses of radiotracers required for dynamic PET acquisitions.
- List mode acquisition for post-acquisition temporal framing of dynamic studies.
- Attenuation map generation using Co-57 transmission source.
- Advanced correction methods for scatter, attenuation, random events, and detector efficiency.
✅ Image Reconstruction & Processing:
- Uses Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) iterative reconstruction algorithms.
- Corrections for scatter, dead time, and radioactive decay included.
- MINC Tool Kit utilized for image processing and analysis.