Design considerations for AMPET: the ambulatory micro-dose, wearable PET brain imager

P Kinahan, S Majewski, B Elston, R Harrison, J Qi… - 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
1540 Objectives As part of the BRAIN initiative, we are designing a mobile molecular brain
imager that can be used on healthy subjects to study the functioning of the human brain …

Simulation study for designing a compact brain PET scanner

K Gong, S Majewski, PE Kinahan… - 2015 IEEE Nuclear …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The desire to understand normal and disordered human brain of upright, moving persons in
natural environments motivates the development of an ambulatory micro-dose brain PET …

Designing a compact high performance brain PET scanner—simulation study

K Gong, S Majewski, PE Kinahan… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The desire to understand normal and disordered human brain function of upright, moving
persons in natural environments motivates the development of the ambulatory micro-dose …

Ambulatory microdose PET: a wearable PET scanner for neurologic imaging

RM Noble - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology, 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
The ambulatory microdose PET scanner is an innovative machine that is advancing the field
of nuclear medicine neurologic imaging. This scanner is a wearable helmet that allows …

Exceptional PET Images from the First Human Scan on the NeuroEXPLORER, a next-generation ultra-high performance brain PET imager

R Carson, T Toyonaga, R Badawi, S Cherry, J Du… - 2023 - Soc Nuclear Med
P298 Introduction: The goal of the NeuroEXPLORER (NX) project is to develop a next-
generation dedicated brain PET system. Motivated by human brain HRRT studies (Yale) and …

Simulation studies of the SAVANT high resolution dedicated brain PET scanner using individually coupled APD detectors and DOI encoding

E Gaudin, M Toussaint, C Thibaudeau, R Fontaine… - 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
531 Objectives: The SAVANT (Scanner Approaching in Vivo Autoradiographic Neuro
Tomography) is a dedicated human brain PET scanner designed to achieve ultra-high …

Design of the NeuroEXPLORER, a next-generation ultra-high performance human brain PET imager

R Carson, E Berg, R Badawi, S Cherry, J Du, T Feng… - 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
1120 Objectives: PET human brain imaging has evolved dramatically, with the availability of
a vast array of specific radiotracers, leading to numerous imaging paradigms to measure a …

Performance assessment of a preclinical PET scanner with pinhole collimation by comparison to a coincidence-based small-animal PET scanner

MD Walker, MC Goorden, K Dinelle… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
PET imaging of rodents is increasingly used in preclinical research, but its utility is limited by
spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio of the images. A recently developed preclinical …

Performance Evaluation of a Next-generation Human Brain PET Imager: the NeuroEXPLORER

H Li, R Badawi, S Cherry, K Fontaine, L He, L Hu… - 2023 - Soc Nuclear Med
P801 Introduction: We (Yale, UC Davis, United Imaging) have successfully developed
NeuroEXPLORER (NX), a dedicated human brain PET/CT imager with high spatial …

Development of dedicated brain PET imaging devices: recent advances and future perspectives

C Catana - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
Whole-body PET scanners are not optimized for imaging small structures in the human
brain. Several PET devices specifically designed for this task have been proposed either for …