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Beyond ClearPET: Next Aims

  • The CRYSTAL CLEAR collaboration, in short CCC, is a consortium of 12 academic institutions, mainly from Europe, joining efforts in the area of developing instrumentation for nuclear medicine and medical imaging. In the framework of the CCC a high performance small animal PET system, called ClearPET, was developed by using new technologies in electronics and crystals in a phoswich arrangement combining two types of lutetium- based scintillator materials: LSO:Ce and LuYAP:Ce. Our next aim will be the development of hybrid image systems. Hybrid MR-PET imaging has many unique advantages for brain research. This has sparked a new research line within CCC for the development of novel MR-PET compatible technologies. MRI is not as sensitive as PET but PET has poorer spatial resolution than MRI. Two major advantages of PET are sensitivity and its ability to acquire metabolic information. To assess these innovations, the development of a 9.4T hybrid animal MR-PET scanner is proposed based on an existing 9.4T MR scanner that will be adapted to enable simultaneous acquisition of MR and PET data using cutting- edge technology for both MR and PET.

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Author:Karl Ziemons, P. Bruyndonckx, J. M. Perez, U. Pietrzyk, P. Rato, S. Tavernier
ISBN:978-1-4244-2003-2
Parent Title (English):5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro Symposium Proceedings ISBI 2008
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2008
Date of the Publication (Server):2013/01/30
First Page:1421
Last Page:1424
Link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2008.4541273
Zugriffsart:campus
Institutes:FH Aachen / Fachbereich Medizintechnik und Technomathematik