A triple modality device for simultaneous small animal CT and PET-SPECT imaging

Multimodality simultaneous functional and morphological imaging is being pursued by several research groups. 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 attenuation correction and in order to localize more accurately the region under investigation. We have take simultaneous PET-CT and SPECT-CT images of phantoms obtained with a single scanner.