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Performance evaluation of a high-sensitivity large-aperture small-animal PET scanner: ClairvivoPET

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Abstract

Objective

In this study, we evaluated the performance of a newly commercialized small-animal positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, ClairvivoPET, which provides significant advantages in spatial resolution, sensitivity, and quantitative accuracy.

Methods

This scanner consists of depth of interaction detector modules with a large axial extent of 151 mm and an external 137Cs source for attenuation correction. Physical performances, resolution, sensitivity, scatter fraction (SF), counting rate including noise equivalent count (NEC) rate, quantitative accuracy versus activity strength, and transmission accuracy, were measured and evaluated. Animal studies were also performed.

Results

Transaxial spatial resolution, measured with a capillary tube, was 1.54 mm at the center and 2.93 mm at a radial offset of 40 mm. The absolute sensitivity was 8.2% at the center, and SFs for mouse-and rat-sized phantoms were 10.7% and 24.2%, respectively. Peak NEC rates for mouse-and rat-sized uniform cylindrical phantoms were 328 kcps at 173 kBq/ml and 119 kcps at 49 kBq/ml, respectively. The quantitative stability of emission counts against activity strength was within 2% over 5 half-lives, ranging from 0.6 MBq to 30 MBq. Transmission measurement based on segmented attenuation correction allowed 6-min and 10-min scans for mouse-and rat-sized cylindrical phantoms, respectively. Rat imaging injected with 18F-NaF resulted in visibility of fine bone structures, and mouse imaging injected with 18F-D-fluoromethyl tyrosine demonstrated the feasibility of using this system to obtain simultaneous time activity curves from separate regions, such as for the heart and tumors.

Conclusions

ClairvivoPET is well suited to quantitative imaging even with short scan times, and will provide a number of advantages in new drug development and for kinetic measurement in molecular imaging.

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  1. Research and Development Department, Medical Systems Division, Shimadzu Corporation, 1 Nishinokyo-Kuwabaracho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, 604-8511, Japan

    Tetsuro Mizuta, Yoshiyuki Yamagishi, Atsushi Ohtani, Kazumi Tanaka & Yoshihiro Inoue

  2. Corporate Strategy Planning Department, Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan

    Keishi Kitamura & Hiroshi Iwata

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Mizuta, T., Kitamura, K., Iwata, H. et al. Performance evaluation of a high-sensitivity large-aperture small-animal PET scanner: ClairvivoPET. Ann Nucl Med 22, 447–455 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12149-008-0127-2

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