A positron projection imager for whole-body mouse imaging

Author

Seidel, Jurgen ; Xi, Wenze ; Kakareka, John W. ; Pohida, Thomas J. ; Green, Michael V. ; Choyke, Peter L.

Author_Institution

SAIC-Frederick, Nat. Cancer Inst., Bethesda, MD, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

Oct. 30 2010-Nov. 6 2010

Firstpage

2206

Lastpage

2209

Abstract

Certain experimental questions in molecular imaging can be answered with projection imaging systems rather than tomographs. Accordingly, we have designed, assembled and are now testing a projection imaging system able to visualize the whole-body distribution of positron-emitting compounds in mouse-size animals. When completed, this positron projection imager (PPI) will plug into the MONICA portable dual gamma camera system to provide the user with a positron projection imaging capability and all of the data acquisition and analysis features available with MONICA for single photon projection imaging.

Keywords

data acquisition; medical image processing; radioisotope imaging; MONICA portable dual gamma camera system; analysis features; data acquisition; molecular imaging; positron emitting compounds; positron projection imager; projection imaging systems; single photon projection imaging; whole-body mouse imaging; Data acquisition; Detectors; Hyperspectral imaging; Imaging; Indexes; Photonics; Sensitivity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Knoxville, TN

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9106-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874174

Filename

5874174