A Novel High Resolution Positron Emission Tomography System for Measurement of Bone Metabolism

Abstract

The overall purposes of this project are: (1) To design and develop an instrument for high resolution PET imaging of the long bones. (2) Demonstrate the use of this device in an experimental protocol to assess estrogen therapy for osteoporosis in a monkey model. The main thrust of the first year's work was to carry out a design study for the proposed PET imaging device. Several approaches were used to accomplish this. First, a number of computational and simulation studies were done, secondly, a prototype device was constructed as a platform for testing circuit designs and data processing schemes, and finally the physical characteristics of the proposed design were evaluated using the prototype. Data acquisition and analysis software development have also been carried out using the prototype. A final design has been specified and ordering of components is in progress.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA372114

Entities

People

  • John A. Correia

Organizations

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biomedical Research
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Processing
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Geometry
  • High Resolution
  • Measurement
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Operating Systems
  • Positron Emission Tomography
  • Positron Emissions
  • Positrons
  • Tomography
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Medical Imaging.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology