Sentences with phrase «pet scanner»

In addition to cancer applications, the PET scanner will also be used for orthopedic, neurology, and cardiology diagnosis, among others.

The volumetric acquisition greatly increases the speed and allows us to do a lot of things you could not do with a conventional PET scanner.»

The human - sized PET scanner Cherry and Badawi envision will be available for use at UC Davis Health by 2019.

A few other veterinary hospitals in the country are utilizing PET, but with this new technology, UC Davis is currently the only medical institution in the world with a volumetric PET scanner.

«This PET scanner has a clear potential to boost our understanding of complex problems,» said Dr. Denis Marcellin - Little of the Orthopedic Surgery Service.

Over the past year, UC Davis radiologists have continually collaborated with the creators of the PET scanner, BrainBiosciences, Inc., as this work is influencing future veterinary applications of PET.

The PET scanner acquisition was funded by the Grayson - Jockey Club Research Foundation and private donors through CEH.

The newly - acquired PET scanner was delivered as planned in early August, enabling UC Davis to become the first equine hospital to offer PET scans.

Additional clinical studies will likely begin in 2017, as further information becomes available from continued use of the PET scanner.

Dr. Badawi had recently designed a PET scanner for human breast imaging, demonstrating that the PET technology had matured to create smaller scanners dedicated to specific body area imaging, compared with the classic scanners designed to image larger body areas.

The photo on the left shows the portable PET scanner used for equine PET imaging.

In association with the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine's Center for Equine Health (CEH), the hospital will launch use of the PET scanner in the summer of 2016.

The two imaging specialists worked with a private company (that had recently designed a portable PET scanner for imaging of the human brain) to create a portable unit for veterinary purposes.

A series of research projects during the summer will help refine imaging protocols and acquire further reference data on the PET scanner.

The addition of a PET scanner for horse limbs (the first of its kind in the world) is already showing success, and has begun an exciting new era of advanced imaging.

A researcher in Canada, Stephen Cunnane, who is investigating ketone therapy, has a ketone PET scanner and also does a glucose PET scan back to back, studying Alzheimer's.

By 2011, her colleague Stan Majewski suggested that these smaller detectors might work in a portable PET scanner.

This was going first to a reorientation of the Crystal Clear program opening the fundamental research on new scintillators to the construction of medical imaging prototypes such as the ClearPET small animal PET scanner with a LuAP / LSO phoswich and the ClearPEM dedicated positron emission tomography for functional breast imaging.

Technical coordinator of a national convention in France involving industry and universities on the same subject Since 1992: Organizer of a cycle of international conferences on «Heavy scintillators for scientific and industrial applications» First one in Chamonix, France in 1992 (200 participants), 9th one in Winston Salem (NC, USA) in 2007 (300 participants) 1994 - 2007: As Technical coordinator of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter at the LHC Large Hadron Collider, responsible for the technical development and the mass production of 76» 000 Lead Tungstate crystals (100 tons) 1994 - 2000: Organizer of the development and mass production organization of Lutetium Aluminum perovskite crystals, in particular for PET scanner applications Since 2000: Strong involvement in the development of dedicated breast imaging camera combining several modalities for a multiparametric evaluation of breast tumors (anatomic, structural and functional) Since 2002: Feasibility study and setting - up of an international medical imaging research centre, presently being built in Marseille (Cerimed)

I was helping scientists to evaluate the performance of an animal PET scanner.

The CBI houses multiple whole - body MRI research scanners operating at 1.5, 3 and 7T field strength, including a human 3T - MR - PET scanner, as well as small - bore systems for specimen and animal studies at 7T.

In a study published in the August edition of the journal Diabetes, Weibo Cai, Matthew J. Merrins and colleagues used a PET scanner to detect minute levels of a radioactive chemical in the mouse pancreas.

Scientists from BNL, Stony Brook University, and collaborators have demonstrated the efficacy of a «wearable,» portable PET scanner they've developed for rats.

A new study by researchers from the Department of Psychology at Uppsala University and Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet shows that people with PTSD have an imbalance between two neurochemical signalling systems of the brain, serotonin and substance P. Professors Mats Fredrikson and Tomas Furmark led the study using a so - called PET scanner to measure the relationship between these systems.

To that end, he and Lang have put the technique to the test in the operating room, just as he and Kosslyn did in the PET scanner.

As in the previous studies, subjects were put inside a PET scanner, shown a slide with color rectangles, and their brain activity was mapped.

As in previous studies, subjects were put inside a PET scanner and shown a slide with color rectangles, and their brain activity was mapped.

Participants listened to their songs of choice in a PET scanner, which detects the release of the feel - good neurotransmitter dopamine, and again in an fMRI scanner, which measures brain activity.

Apart from the number of participants, the strengths of this study include the use of three different methods to achieve acurate measurement results: cerebrospinal fluid samples, the use of a so - called PET scanner, and genetic analysis.

A PET scanner can then detect the radioactive particles emitted from inside the brain, representing areas of increased microglial activation before and after immune stimulation with LPS.

Radioactivity in the brain was measured with the PET scanner in three conditions: after a 60 - min aerobic moderate - intensity exercise session, after a high - intensity interval training (HIIT) session, and after rest.

Subjects completed the experiment while in a PET scanner, allowing Petrovic to track their brain activity as they experienced both pain and pain relief.

The chemical binds to the serotonin transporter and the PET scanner detects the radioactivity.

Ivanka Savic Berglund, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, put gay men, straight men, and women in a PET scanner (not all at the same time) and watched how their anterior hypothalamus lit up when presented with an odor similar to one found in men's sweat and one similar to a scent found in women's urine.

PET scanners help to reveal how tissues and organs are functioning by using a radioactive drug to trace activity.

PET scanners and undersea oil - well blowout preventers are still pretty different, for example.

In the early 1990s, Richard Haier, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Irvine, tracked cerebral glucose metabolic rates in the brains of Tetris players using PET scanners.

There are about 2,500 PET scanners in hospitals across the U.S. that collectively perform about 2 million scans per year.

In 2009, The Clinical Trials Network (CTN) Scanner Validation Program was established to ensure baseline common quality control metrics for PET scanners used in multi-center studies.

Then there is medical physics where you could be working with radioactive medicines or taking images of the body with CT, MRI and PET scanners.

Not exact matches

Perfect for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners and high energy physics applications.

If your pet is travelling in the cabin with you, remove it from its carrying case, send the carrying case through the x-ray scanner, hold your pet in your arms and proceed through the metal detector.

Looking ahead, he posits, «With advancement of image - registration / segmentation software and PET / MRI scanners, it is quite logical to predict that in the future PET images and SUVmax on a suspicious lesion in the prostate will be used for multimodal image - guided fusion biopsy.»

Like a key fitting into a lock, the carrier molecules bind to certain receptors or biomarkers and the radioactive atoms enable PET or SPECT scanners to image areas where the tracers have collected in large numbers.

Then they would lie in a high - resolution positron emission tomography (PET) scanner for a grueling 90 minutes while the machine took pictures in 2 - millimeter increments of their nucleus accumbens, a region deep in the brain that (among other things) controls reward and motivation.

«To see the brain in action, test subjects need to lie down on a plank inside a scanner or be wired up to a PET machine, which hardly mimics the real world,» says Brizendine.

Last April, Peter Graham at Stanford University, California, and his colleagues devised another way to hunt them using the same technology as MRI scanners.

Following their sodium fluoride scans, the patients had surgery to remove calcified plaques and the extracted tissue was imaged, this time at higher resolution, using a laboratory PET / CT scanner and an electron microscope.

Antielectrons, also known as positrons, are in wide use in PET (positron emission tomography) scanners.

When these miserable souls go into a positron - emission tomography (PET) scanner, Wang sees the motivation regions of their brains go wild.