EXC 1003 FF-2013-16 - PET imaging of freely moving mice
Basic data for this project
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration at the University of Münster: 01/07/2013 - 30/06/2016 | 1st Funding period
Description
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a most sensitive imaging tool to study molecular metabolism in vivo. Due to the long acquisition time (minutes) of PET, anesthesia is widely used in small animal studies to avoid motion. However, impact of anesthesia on organ function depicted by PET studies was found to be significant. Therefore, the application of PET as a quantitative method to analyze spontaneous "natural" metabolism becomes critical or even impossible in anesthetized animal subjects. In this project we develop techniques and realize a system for freely moving mouse PET imaging based on the high-resolution small animal PET scanner quadHIDAC.
Keywords: PET scanner; molecular metabolism; biochemistry
Website of the project: http://www.uni-muenster.de/Cells-in-Motion/research/flexible-fund-projects/FF-2013-16.php
Funder / funding scheme:
- DFG - Cluster of Excellence (EXC)
Project management at the University of Münster
| Jiang, Xiaoyi | Professur für Praktische Informatik (Prof. Jiang) |
| Schäfers, Klaus | European Institute of Molecular Imaging (EIMI) |
| Wübbeling, Frank | Institute for Analysis and Numerics |
Applicants from the University of Münster
| Schäfers, Klaus | European Institute of Molecular Imaging (EIMI) |