Submillimeter total-body murine imaging with U-SPECT-I

B Vastenhouw, F Beekman - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2007 - Soc Nuclear Med
Recently, we launched a stationary SPECT system (U-SPECT-I) dedicated to small-animal
imaging. A cylinder with 75 gold micropinhole apertures that focus on a mouse organ was …

U-SPECT-I: a novel system for submillimeter-resolution tomography with radiolabeled molecules in mice

FJ Beekman, F van der Have… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2005 - Soc Nuclear Med
A major advance in biomedical science and diagnosis was accomplished with the
development of in vivo techniques to image radiolabeled molecules, but limited spatial …

U-SPECT-II: an ultra-high-resolution device for molecular small-animal imaging

F Van Der Have, B Vastenhouw… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2009 - Soc Nuclear Med
We present a new rodent SPECT system (U-SPECT-II) that enables molecular imaging of
murine organs down to resolutions of less than half a millimeter and high-resolution total …

Ultra-high-sensitivity submillimeter mouse SPECT

O Ivashchenko, F van der Have… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
SPECT with submegabecquerel amounts of tracer or subsecond time resolution would
enable a wide range of new imaging protocols such as screening tracers with initially low …

VECTor: a preclinical imaging system for simultaneous submillimeter SPECT and PET

MC Goorden, F van der Have, R Kreuger… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2013 - Soc Nuclear Med
Today, PET and SPECT tracers cannot be imaged simultaneously at high resolutions but
require 2 separate imaging systems. This paper introduces a Versatile Emission Computed …

Design and simulation of a high-resolution stationary SPECT system for small animals

FJ Beekman, B Vastenhouw - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
Exciting new SPECT systems can be created by combining pinhole imaging with compact
high-resolution gamma cameras. These new systems are able to solve the problem of the …

A multipinhole small animal SPECT system with submillimeter spatial resolution

T Funk, P Després, WC Barber, KS Shah… - Medical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is an important technology for
molecular imaging studies of small animals. In this arena, there is an increasing demand for …

Small animal imaging with multi-pinhole SPECT

J Nuyts, K Vunckx, M Defrise, C Vanhove - Methods, 2009 - Elsevier
With Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), images of minute
concentrations of tracer molecules can be acquired, allowing in vivo molecular imaging. For …

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 …

The pinhole: gateway to ultra-high-resolution three-dimensional radionuclide imaging

F Beekman, F van der Have - European journal of nuclear medicine and …, 2007 - Springer
Today the majority of clinical molecular imaging procedures are carried out with single-
photon emitters and gamma cameras, in planar mode and single-photon emission …