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T1 Features of the NIH atlas small animal pet scanner and its use with a coaxial small animal volume CT scanner
A1 Seidel, Jürgen
A1 Vaquero López, Juan José
A1 Pascau González-Garzón, Javier
A1 Desco Menéndez, Manuel
A1 Johnson, Calvin A.
A1 Green, Michael V.
AB ATLAS (Advanced Technology Laboratory AnimalScanner), a small animal PET scanner designed to image animals the size of rats and mice, is about to enter service on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. This system is the first small animal PET scanner with a depth-ofinteraction capability and the first to use iterative resolution recovery algorithms, rather than conventional filtered back projection, for "production" image reconstruction.ATLAS is also proximate to, and co-axial with, a high resolution small animal CT scanner. When fully integrated, spatially registered PET and CT images of each animal will be used to correct the emission data for radiation attenuation and to aid in target identification. In this report we describe some of the technical and functional features of this system and illustrate how these features are used in an actual small animal imaging study
PB IEEE
SN 0-7803-7584-X
YR 2002
FD 2002
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/12189
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/12189
LA eng
NO Proceeding of: 2002 IEEE International Symposium On Biomedical Imaging, Washington, D.C., USA, July 7-10, 2002
NO This work was supported in part by projects FIS00/0036 and 11I PRICIT Comunidad de Madrid, Spain.
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RD 1 may. 2024