Small animal research is an essential tool in studying both pharmaceutical biodistribution and disease progression over time. Furthermore, through the rapid development ofin vivoimaging technology over the last few decades, small animal imaging (also referred to as preclinical imaging) has become a mainstay for all fields of biologic research and a center point for most preclinical cancer research. Preclinical imaging modalities include optical, MRI and MRS, microCT, small animal PET, ultrasound, and photoacoustic, each with their individual strengths. The strong points of small animal PET are its translatability to the clinic; its quantitative imaging capabilities; its whole-body imaging ability to dynamically trace functional/biochemical processes; its ability to provide useful images with only nano- to pico- molar concentrations of administered compounds; and its ability to study animals serially over time. This review paper gives an overview of the development and evolution of small animal PET imaging. It provides an overview of detector designs; system configurations; multimodality PET imaging systems; image reconstruction and analysis tools; and an overview of research and commercially available small animal PET systems. It concludes with a look toward developing technologies/methodologies that will further enhance the impact of small animal PET imaging on medical research in the future.
Miyaoka, Robert S. and Lehnert, Adrienne L.. "Small animal PET: a review of what we have done and where we are going." Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 65, no. 24, Dec. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ab8f71
Miyaoka, Robert S., & Lehnert, Adrienne L. (2020). Small animal PET: a review of what we have done and where we are going. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 65(24). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ab8f71
Miyaoka, Robert S., and Lehnert, Adrienne L., "Small animal PET: a review of what we have done and where we are going," Physics in Medicine and Biology 65, no. 24 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ab8f71
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annote = {Abstract Small animal research is an essential tool in studying both pharmaceutical biodistribution and disease progression over time. Furthermore, through the rapid development ofin vivoimaging technology over the last few decades, small animal imaging (also referred to as preclinical imaging) has become a mainstay for all fields of biologic research and a center point for most preclinical cancer research. Preclinical imaging modalities include optical, MRI and MRS, microCT, small animal PET, ultrasound, and photoacoustic, each with their individual strengths. The strong points of small animal PET are its translatability to the clinic; its quantitative imaging capabilities; its whole-body imaging ability to dynamically trace functional/biochemical processes; its ability to provide useful images with only nano- to pico- molar concentrations of administered compounds; and its ability to study animals serially over time. This review paper gives an overview of the development and evolution of small animal PET imaging. It provides an overview of detector designs; system configurations; multimodality PET imaging systems; image reconstruction and analysis tools; and an overview of research and commercially available small animal PET systems. It concludes with a look toward developing technologies/methodologies that will further enhance the impact of small animal PET imaging on medical research in the future.},
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