PET Facilities
The Laboratory houses a complete PET research facility, complementing the previously established PET research labs under the Medical Physics department. The Brain Imaging lab houses a GE Advance PET scanner along with its adjacent control room, subject prep room, and blood metabolite analysis lab.
These imaging resources are optimized for research applications, with ample space for research teams and equipment, multiple redundancy in data and power lines to support modified equipment needs, special modifications for bedside dose preparation and delivery, and easily accessible hardware mounting and cable access for ceiling, floor, and wall mounted equipment such as activation stimulus presentation and subject telemetry.
The Advance scanner consists of 336 detector units of dimensions of 50 mm axial by 24 mm transaxial by 30 mm radial. The units are arranged to form 18 rings with 672 crystals each, giving 35 contiguous 2-D image planes through an axial field of view (FOV) of 15.2 cm. The rings are separated by 1 mm thick, 12 cm deep retractable tungsten septa. The maximum transaxial FOV is 55 cm in diameter through a 59 diameter patient port. The transaxial resolution of this scanner is 5.5 mm FWHM, and axial resolution is 4.7 mm FWHM in 2D mode and 6.2 mm in 3D mode.