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Mejia,J.; Reis,M.A.; Miranda,A.C.C.; Batista,I.R.; Barboza,M.R.F.; Shih,M.C.; Fu,G.; Chen,C.T.; Meng,L.J.; Bressan,R.A.; Amaro Jr,E.. |
The single photon emission microscope (SPEM) is an instrument developed to obtain high spatial resolution single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images of small structures inside the mouse brain. SPEM consists of two independent imaging devices, which combine a multipinhole collimator, a high-resolution, thallium-doped cesium iodide [CsI(Tl)] columnar scintillator, a demagnifying/intensifier tube, and an electron-multiplying charge-coupling device (CCD). Collimators have 300- and 450-µm diameter pinholes on tungsten slabs, in hexagonal arrays of 19 and 7 holes. Projection data are acquired in a photon-counting strategy, where CCD frames are stored at 50 frames per second, with a radius of rotation of 35 mm and magnification factor of one. The... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Tomography; Preclinical imaging; Molecular imaging; Mice. |
Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2013001100936 |
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Mejia,J.; Galvis-Alonso,O.Y.; Braga,J.; Corrêa,R.; Leite,J.P.; Simões,M.V.. |
Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is a non-invasive imaging technique, which provides information reporting the functional states of tissues. SPECT imaging has been used as a diagnostic tool in several human disorders and can be used in animal models of diseases for physiopathological, genomic and drug discovery studies. However, most of the experimental models used in research involve rodents, which are at least one order of magnitude smaller in linear dimensions than man. Consequently, images of targets obtained with conventional gamma-cameras and collimators have poor spatial resolution and statistical quality. We review the methodological approaches developed in recent years in order to obtain images of small targets with good spatial... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Small animal SPECT; Multipinhole collimators; Coded masks. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2009000800001 |
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