Initial Evaluation of the Indiana Small Animal PET Scanner

The Indiana small animal PET scanner is a new generation PET scanner with design goals of 1 microliter volumetric spatial resolution, a point source sensitivity of greater than 5 percent, and an imaging field-of-view suitable for whole body mouse imaging. The scanner design uses 12 planar detector banks each consisting of a 48 /spl times/ 108 array of 20 mm long LSO crystals with an array pitch of 0.87 mm coupled to two Hamamatsu H8500 large...