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PET-CT Scan Equipment
Nuclear Medicine Research PET-CT Scan Research PET-CT Scan Equipment Faculty Nuclear Medicine Program Information Our PET-CT facility is in a new building connected to the main hallway by the nuclear medicine department. It houses, on the main floor, the patient waiting room, four dedicated “dosing rooms” (where the patients wait in shielded rooms with TV, semi-private bathroom shared with one other patient, etc. for the isotope uptake period), and two PET-CT scanners. Both PET-CT scanners have identical PET gantries, allowing direct comparison between scans qualitatively and quantitatively regardless of which scanner the patient used previously. The CTs provide identical image reconstruction (one is a 6 slice, one a 16 slice), being manufactured by Siemens. We have three dedicated PET-CT workstations. We presently perform about 25 to 30 PET-CT scans a day, with about 60% being for multiple myeloma (we have one of the world's largest multiple myeloma centers, and we have the world's largest experience in imaging multiple myeloma). The remainder of our scans comes from a wide variety of diseases, including head & neck, thyroid, lung, breast, colorectal, melanoma and lymphoma malignancies. We also do brain imaging to differentiate long term radiation injury from recurrent tumor and for seizure localization. Other indications are rapidly expanding. With our affiliation with Arkansas Children's hospital, we see a variety of childhood tumors. For small animal research, we have a Siemens/CTI microPET Focus® with 1 mm LSO detectors and sub-mm resolution. We have a variety of animal models for disease, especially from the Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) and the Myeloma Institute for Research and Treatment (MIRT). We also do small animal research in the field of musculoskeletal infection. We have recently relocated the UAMS small animal MRI facility to the main UAMS campus in close proximity to the microPET lab. UAMS has also recently acquired a 3D IVIS bioluminescence camera. Our medical cyclotron, dedicated solely to medical research, is now on site and certified, located in the floor beneath the PET-CT facility, and in the same building. We are acquiring equipment to bring the research lab on line for both small animal and human research. We have one patent in place for a unique PET imaging agent to detect infection. We hope to soon begin research with new agents using the power of PET-CT.
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We received a microPET scanner in February 2004.
