Pinhole PET (pPET): A multi-pinhole collimator insert for small animal SPECT imaging on PET cameras

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 1973-1976

  Cardi, Christopher A ^b   Cao, Zixiong ^c   Thakur, Mathew L ^b   Karp, Joel S ^a,c   Acton, Paul D ^c  

^a IEEE

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DISEASES; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOSPHORS;

PINHOLE INSERTS; SPATIAL ALIGNMENT; SPECT IMAGING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33748941757     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596719     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. S. Surti, J. S. Karp, A. E. Perkins, R. Freifelder and G. Muehllehner, "Design evaluation of A-PET: a high sensitivity animal PET camera," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 50 1357-63, 2003
2. S. R. Cherry, et al, "MicroPET: a high resolution PET scanner for imaging small animals," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.44 1161-6, 2001
3. S. I. Ziegler, B.J. Pilcher, G. Boening, M. Rafecas, W. Pimpl, E. Lorenz, N. Schmitz and M. Schwaiger, "A prototype high-resolution animal positron tomograph with avalanche photodiode arrays and LSO crystals," Euro. J. Nucl.Med. 28 136-43, 2001
4. F.J. Beekman and B. Vastenhouw, "Design and simulation of a high-resolution stationary SPECT system for small animals," Phys. Med. Biol. 49 4579-92, 2004
5. N. U. Schramm, G. Ebel, U. Engeland, T. Schurrat, M. Behe and T. M. Behr, "High-resolution SPECT using multipinhole collimation," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 50 315-20, 2003
6. S. D. Metzler, K. L. Greer and R. J. Jaszczak, "Helical pinhole SPECT for small-animal imaging: a method for addressing sampling completeness," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 50 1575-83, 2003
7. Z. Cao, G. Bal, R. Accorsi, P. D. Acton, "Optimal number of pinholes in multi-pinhole SPECT for mouse brain imaging - a simulation study," Phys. Med. Biol. SO 4609-24, 2005