Performance Evaluation of the Small-Animal nanoScan PET/MRI System

• Published in: Journal of Nuclear Medicine Vol. 54; no. 10; pp. 1825 - 1832
• Main Authors: Nagy, Kálmán, Tóth, Miklós, Major, Péter, Patay, Gergely, Egri, Győző, Häggkvist, Jenny, Varrone, Andrea, Farde, Lars, Halldin, Christer, Gulyás, Balázs
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Society of Nuclear Medicine 01.10.2013
• Subjects: Animals; Laboratory animals; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - instrumentation; Mice; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Performance evaluation; Positron-Emission Tomography - instrumentation; Protocol; Rats; Signal-To-Noise Ratio; Systems Integration; Tomography; preclinical PET; performance evaluation; small-animal imaging; PET/MR imaging; multimodality imaging

nanoScan is a high-resolution integrated system for consecutive PET and MR imaging of small laboratory animals. We evaluated the performance of the system, using the NEMA NU 4-2008 protocol for the PET component and the NEMA MS 1-2007, MS 2-2008, and MS 3-2007 standards for the MR imaging component....