Sci-Fri AM: YIS-02: Evaluation of the LabPET4 imaging capabilities for in vivo small animal imaging

Medical Physics
M BergeronR Lecomte

Abstract

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a non-invasive technique to visualize metabolic and physiological processes in vivo. Excellent imaging capabilities such as spatial resolution and count rate performance are essential to achieve accurate information about the observed processes. It is for this purpose that the LabPET scanner, an avalanche photodiode (APD)-based fully digital scanner PET scanner, was initially developed. Two variants of the scanner exist: LabPET4 and LabPET8 with 3.75 and 7.5 cm axial lengths respectively. The range of the transaxial FOV is up to 10 cm therefore it can easily accommodate mice and rats. The aim of this work is to evaluate LabPET4 imaging in several phantoms and small animals. Spatial resolution was determined using a point source and hot spots phantoms. The latter were used to assess recovery coefficients (RC) obtained by taking the ratio of hot spot maximum values compared to the biggest spot maximum value. FBP reconstructed tangential/radial resolution is 1.3/1.4 mm FWHM (2.5/2.4 FWTM) at the field of view center. With an Ultra Micro Hot Spot Phantom, 1 mm spots are clearly resolved. Count rate performance was obtained for mouse-size and rat-size phantoms. For mouse phantom, scatter fractio...Continue Reading

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