title: High resolution PET, SPECT and projection imaging in small animals.
abstract: Positron emission tomography, single photon emission computed tomography and planar projection imaging of radioactive tracers have long been in use for detecting and diagnosing disease in human subjects. More recently, advanced versions of these same technologies have begun to be used across the breadth of modern biomedical research to study non-invasively small laboratory animals in a myriad of experimental settings. In this report, we describe some of the new instruments and techniques that make these measurements possible and illustrate, with a few examples, the potential power of these methods in modern biomedical research.
authors.affiliation: National Institutes of Health, Room 1C401, Building 10, Bethesda, MD 20892-1180, USA. mike@nmdhst.cc.nih.gov
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Seidel
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Vaquero
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jagoda
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Eckelman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D051379:Mice; D051381:Rats; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18