EXPLORER PET-CT scanner: a total body experience
EXPLORER, the world’s first medical imaging scanner to produce a 3-D picture of the whole human body.
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Video Radiotracing
Video radiotracing is used in the Explorer PET/CT total body scanner, and advanced reconstruction techniques are used. The Explorer scanner can capture real-time videos of heart function and blood flow. The positron emission tomography (PET imaging) part of the Explorer scanner uses a technique to trace metabolic processes in the body.
This dynamic scanner can be applied in the clinical setting to perform ultra-fast whole-body tracer imaging to simultaneously evaluate brain and heart functions. The Explorer scanner produces high-quality real-time videos of biological functions involving the tissues and organs. Due to noise reduction, this type of video radiotracing is completed within 100 milliseconds. The images are reconstructed using the raw data and work by injecting the patient in the lower leg with a short-lived radiotracer.
The PET mode of the Explorer scanner is used to trace the radiotracer’s journey in the body. The video shows the radiotracer travelling to the heart, flowing through the right ventricle to the lungs, then back through the left ventricle to the rest of the body. Combining advanced data reconstruction methods and tomography technology increases the application of the Explorer PET/CT scanner.
For example, video radiotracing can be used to track blood flow in real time around the human circulatory system. It is also used to monitor frozen-in-motion heart beating, monitor breathing for cardiovascular disease, and analyze respiratory system functions.
Video radiotracing produces exceptional clarity of the heart’s motion and changes in cardiac contraction, especially in the delineation of the end-systolic and end-diastolic phases.
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