Image quality assessment for awake animal brain PET Universiteit Antwerpen
A restrictive issue for small-animal positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is the fact that animals are either anaesthetized or physically restrained to prevent them from moving during the imaging procedure. Tracking the motion of the animal, based on e.g. radioactive point sources which are attached to the head of the animal, allows to scan awake animals. The use of radioactive point sources for motion tracking has the benefit that it can ...