May 2018 - EXPLORER Total-Body PET Scanner Completed

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Fabrication of the first ever total-body PET scanner has been completed in collaboration with our industry partners United Imaging Healthcare and SensL Technologies. The scanner has a 194 cm axial field of view for PET imaging provided by over 500 thousand detector elements. It also contains a low dose CT scanner for anatomical imaging and PET attenuation correction. Characterization of the scanner is currently underway with the first ever human imaging set to take place in the near future.

Professors Cherry, Badawi, and Jones in front of the first ever total-body PET scanner
Professors Cherry, Badawi, and Jones in front of the first ever total-body PET scanner
View of the electronics involved to read out the +500,000 PET detector elements
View of the electronics involved to read out the +500,000 PET detector elements

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