✅ 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.