PET Research Facility

Index

Cyclotron | microPET/CT | Hot Cells | Quality Control | Other Services | Tracers

GE PETtrace 10 Cyclotron

The GE PETtrace Radiotracer Production System is a compact, automated cyclotron and radiochemistry system designed for the fast, easy, and efficient production of PET radiotracers.  The PETtrace System is centered on a compact negative ion cyclotron of proven design.  The PETtrace Cyclotron features a vertical mid-plane and can accelerate protons to 16.5 MeV and deuterons to 8.4 MeV of energy.  The system can be configured with various targets/process systems for production of common PET radioisotopes.  The high performance, flexible design is ideal for applications in a research setting.

The PET isotopes, which can be produced by the PETtrace System, including oxygen-15, nitrogen-13, carbon-11, and fluorine-18, are automatically transferred to the radiochemistry processing systems for efficient conversion into finished radiotracers or precursors for use in preparing other labeled molecules.

Siemens Vision.X PET/CT Scanner

The Biograph Vision.X is a whole-body PET/CT tomograph designed for the purposes of oncological, neurological, and cardiac imaging and aid in diagnosis. With a single noninvasive procedure, the Biograph produces remarkable CT and PET/CT images that reveal highly detailed anatomy and biological processes at the molecular level.

The Biograph provides:
- high performance spiral computed tomography (CT) imaging and applications including Edge 128 slice capability.
- high-resolution, high-count rate, positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of metabolic and physiologic processes.
- high quality anatomic and metabolic image registration for optimal lesion detection and identification within the body.
- high quality attenuation correction and scatter correction for PET imaging.
In addition, the Biograph Vision.X uses a high-performance PET detector design to achieve our fastest time-of-flight performance to date. To best use the additional performance, the Biograph Vision.X includes UltraHD-PET standard.

-UltraHD-PET reconstruction, combining time-of-flight reconstruction with HD-PET resolution recovery.

-Wide, 78-cm bore and short, 136-cm tunnel for patient comfort and easy access

Trifoil InSyTe microPET/CT Scanner

This new, high performance PET benchtop system with in-line X-ray CT provides the ability to visualize and quantify biological processes over a wide range of PET tracer activities with a reconstructed isotropic image resolution of <1.0µl (<1mm). The InSyTe Lab PET system is the first preclinical PET with continuous bed motion PET detection, maintains uniform signal-to-noise sensitivity across the entire scan range.

 Hot Cells

 Quality Control

ProStar 210UV-Varian HPLC 

 Waters Alliance HPLC

 Agilent 7890BGas Chromatography

 Radio TLC Scanner

 Other Services

 BET testing of radiopharmaceuticals

Tracers