Small animal imaging using a clinical PET/CT and super-resolution

F DiFilippo, S Patel, K Asosingh, S Erzurum - 2011 - Soc Nuclear Med
208 Objectives Although commercial small animal PET/CT scanners are available, the large
installed base of clinical PET/CT scanners presents a low cost opportunity for research use …

Small-animal imaging using clinical positron emission tomography/computed tomography and super-resolution

FP DiFilippo, S Patel, K Asosingh… - Molecular …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Considering the high cost of dedicated small-animal positron emission
tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), an acceptable alternative in many situations …

Optimizing super-resolution on a clinical PET/CT for small animal PET

F DiFilippo, S Patel, K Asosingh, S Erzurum - 2012 - Soc Nuclear Med
2397 Objectives When using a clinical PET/CT for imaging high resolution phantoms and
small animals, super-resolution has been shown to significantly improve image quality …

Small-animal PET: advent of a new era of PET research

MP Tornai, RJ Jaszczak, TG Turkington… - The Journal of …, 1999 - search.proquest.com
The article in this issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine by Chatziioannou et al.(1) about
microPET, a PET scanner for small-animal functional imaging, demonstrates the successful …

Small animal PET with a clinical PET/CT: optimizing image quality with MAP reconstruction and super-resolution

FP DiFilippo, Y Lin, B Bai… - 2012 IEEE Nuclear …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Previous work has shown that super-resolution (SR) can significantly improve image quality
of small animal images acquired on a clinical PET/CT. Another approach is to utilize an …

Micro insert: A prototype full-ring PET device for improving the image resolution of a small-animal PET scanner

H Wu, D Pal, TY Song, JA O'Sullivan… - Journal of nuclear …, 2008 - Soc Nuclear Med
A full-ring PET insert device should be able to enhance the image resolution of existing
small-animal PET scanners. Methods: The device consists of 18 high-resolution PET …

High-throughput PET/CT imaging using a multiple-mouse imaging system

HE Greenwood, Z Nyitrai, G Mocsai… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2020 - Soc Nuclear Med
A considerable limitation of current small-animal PET/CT imaging is the low throughput of
acquisitions. Consequently, to sufficiently power a study, high costs accumulate. Together …

High throughput static and dynamic small animal imaging using clinical PET/CT: potential preclinical applications

N Aide, C Desmonts, JM Beauregard, T Beyer… - European journal of …, 2010 - Springer
Purpose The objective of the study was to evaluate state-of-the-art clinical PET/CT
technology in performing static and dynamic imaging of several mice simultaneously …

Comparison of two super-resolution (SR) techniques in PET imaging

GP Chang, T Pan, J Clark, O Mawlawi - 2008 - Soc Nuclear Med
251 Objectives: Recently we introduced a new SR implementation for PET imaging (J Nucl
Med. 2007; 48: 411P). This SR generated a high resolution image by combining multiple low …

Reconstruction Parameter Assessment for Small Animal Imaging on a Clinical SiPM PET/CT

D Osborne, M Akula, D Cressy, K Smith, S Acuff - 2022 - Soc Nuclear Med
3293 Introduction: Small animal imaging requires high resolution and good contrast to
identify small structures and sites of disease being studies. In another submitted work, we …