On September 11, 2001, many of us were at Rockville, Maryland, attending the HiRes
meeting (High Resolution Imaging in Small Animals with PET, MR and Other Modalities …

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 …

Conclusion: This is the first PET scanner to use the new scintillator LSO and uses a novel
detector design to achieve high volumetric spatial resolution. The combination of imaging …

MicroPET is a high resolution positron emission tomography (PET) scanner designed for
imaging small laboratory animals. It consists of a ring of 30 position-sensitive scintillation …

The microPET Focus is the latest generation microPET system dedicated to high-resolution
animal imaging and incorporates several changes to enhance its performance. This study …

Although tremendous effort and finances were spent in developing small animal PET
scanners, this technology remains under utilized as a research tool to study disease states …

MicroPET II is a second-generation animal PET scanner designed for high-resolution
imaging of small laboratory rodents. The system consists of 90 scintillation detector modules …

With the increasing use of in vivo imaging in mouse models of disease, there are many
interesting applications that demand imaging of organs and tissues with submillimeter …

Objective Although simultaneous measurements of PET and magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) can provide interesting results in molecular imaging research, most of the combined …

MicroPET II is a second-generation microPET scanner dedicated to high resolution PET
imaging of small animals. The system consists of 90 scintillation detector modules arranged …