Small-animal SPECT and SPECT/CT: important tools for preclinical investigation

BL Franc, PD Acton, C Mari… - Journal of nuclear …, 2008 - Soc Nuclear Med
The need to study dynamic biologic processes in intact small-animal models of disease has
stimulated the development of high-resolution nuclear imaging methods. These methods are …

A review of small animal imaging planar and pinhole SPECT γ camera imaging

K Peremans, B Cornelissen… - Veterinary Radiology …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Scintigraphy (positron emission tomography (PET) or single photon emission computed
tomography (SPECT) techniques) allows qualitative and quantitative measurement of …

FastSPECT II: a second-generation high-resolution dynamic SPECT imager

LR Furenlid, DW Wilson, Y Chen, H Kim… - IEEE transactions on …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
FastSPECT II is a recently commissioned 16-camera small-animal SPECT imager built with
modular scintillation cameras and list-mode data-acquisition electronics. The instrument is …

Performance evaluation of A-SPECT: a high resolution desktop pinhole SPECT system for imaging small animals

DP McElroy, LR MacDonald… - … on Nuclear Science, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pinhole collimation of gamma rays to image distributions of radiolabeled tracers is
considered promising for use in small animal imaging. The recent availability of transgenic …

[图书][B] Molecular imaging: basic principles and applications in biomedical research

M Rudin - 2005 - books.google.com
Molecular imaging is a rapidly emerging field that translates many concepts developed for
molecular biology and cellular imaging to the in vivo imaging of intact organisms. The …

A prototype coded aperture detector for small animal SPECT

SR Meikle, P Kench, AG Weisenberger… - … on Nuclear Science, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a previous simulation study, we demonstrated the feasibility of using coded apertures
together with pixelated detectors tors for small animal SPECT. In this paper; we further …

Pinhole SPECT of mice using the LumaGEM gamma camera

LR MacDonald, BE Patt, JS Iwanczyk… - … on Nuclear Science, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
LumaGEM is a newly developed gamma camera for dedicated, small field of view, high
spatial resolution imaging. The system consists of an array of 2/spl times/2/spl times/6 …

Compact CT/SPECT small-animal imaging system

GA Kastis, LR Furenlid, DW Wilson… - IEEE transactions on …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have developed a dual-modality CT/SPECT imaging system for small-animal imaging
applications. The X-ray system comprises a commercially available micro-focus X-ray tube …

Molecular imaging of small animals with a triple-head SPECT system using pinhole collimation

SD Metzler, RJ Jaszczak, NH Patil… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pinhole collimation yields high sensitivity when the distance from the object to the aperture
is small, as in the case of imaging small animals. Fine-resolution images may be obtained …

Hybrid pixel-waveform (HPWF) enabled CdTe detectors for small animal gamma-ray imaging applications

A Groll, K Kim, H Bhatia, JC Zhang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design and preliminary evaluation of small-pixel CdTe gamma ray
detectors equipped with a hybrid pixel-waveform (HPWF) readout system for gamma ray …