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ARGUS small animal positron emission tomography (PET) scanners are designed to accurately quantify and visualize regional, time-varying distributions of positron-labeled radiopharmaceuticals in animals the size of mice and rats. ARGUS scanners are stationary, ring-type machines with an aperture sized for these animals. The scanners are comprised of a gantry into which a animal imaging bed can be inserted under computer control and a separate user console for operating the scanner and for data processing. The ARGUS-drT and the ARGUS-srT are based on the same advanced, high spatial resolution, dual scintillator, depth-of-interaction technology and differ only in their respective axial fields-of-view and price. This depth-of-interaction technology gives both ARGUS scanners extremely high sensitivity but with less degradation of radial resolution with radial position than scanners without this capability. ARGUS scanners are designed to accommodate the full complement of PET imaging studies including static, dynamic, whole-body, list mode, blank and transmission imaging. Software is included to reconstruct, display, analyze and/or utilize all of these data types and to correct the emission data for attenuation and random coincidences. The Argus dr has been updated to a new version. The evolution, done with GE collaboration specially thanks to Robert Ludlow, it is now called eXplore Vista scanner. For this reason we are proud to announce an agreement beetween SUINSA Medical Systems and GE to distribute the pre-clinical small animal PET eXplore Vista Scanner. |
