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Design Considerations for Small Animal PET Scanners

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Positron emission tomography (PET) is an established imaging technique currently used for the clinical management of disease in oncology, cardiology and neurology [1–3]. PET is nowadays integrated in the clinical routine and is acknowledged as a sensitive clinical molecular imaging method. In addition to clinical applications, PET is also an active research tool in preclinical imaging with somewhat different applications. In order to clarify the specific goals of preclinical imaging, which is the focus of this book, the following sub-sections will outline the differences between clinical and preclinical PET imaging in terms of applications and system performance requirements. Following that, this chapter will cover in more detail basic design considerations of preclinical PET scanners.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with grants R01CA119056 from NCI, R33EB003283 from NIBIB, R01CA120474 from NCI and P50CA114747 from NCI. The authors would also like to acknowledge the support of GE Healthcare and the AXA Research Fund.

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    Virginia Ch. Spanoudaki

  2. Departments of Radiology, and by courtesy, Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Bioengineering; Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory (MIIL); Stanford Molecular Imaging Scholars (SMIS) Program; Stanford Center for Innovation in In-Vivo Imaging (SCI3); Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS); Division of Nuclear Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Craig S. Levin

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Spanoudaki, V.C., Levin, C.S. (2014). Design Considerations for Small Animal PET Scanners. In: Zaidi, H. (eds) Molecular Imaging of Small Animals. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0894-3_5

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