Four important new preclinical imaging systems is launched
Bruker (NASDAQ: BRKR) today introduced four important new preclinical imaging systems at the World Molecular Imaging Congress 2015 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The novel products launched at WMIC each deliver improved performance and convenience for routine imaging, and open new horizons for advanced translational research, while Bruker’s platform philosophy facilitates multimodal imaging projects. Researchers will gain a more complete picture and deeper insights into the causes, progression, potential diagnosis and treatment of disease, accelerating the translation of preclinical results to clinical progress.
Next-Generation Albira? Si PET/SPECT/CT System
A revolutionary and proprietary gridless PET detector architecture, which is also available for Bruker’s new PET/MRI systems, makes the Albira Si the most advanced and highest performance preclinical PET system on the market. It delivers, for the first time, sub-millimeter spatial resolution across the full radial field of view (FOV), increasing the high-resolution FOV by an order of magnitude compared to traditional PET systems. This breakthrough capability, combined with exceptional count rate performance and outstanding PET sensitivity, makes Albira Si the preferred system for dynamic and gated PET in vivo studies.
The Albira Sioffers all benefits of integration with SPECT and CT. The micro-CT provides anatomical reference images and attenuation corrections for PET and SPECT imaging. In addition, the Albira Si is compatible with Bruker’s Multimodal Animal Beds for cross-platform MRI and optical molecular imaging.
Professor Jose Benlloch, Director of the Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging (I3M) at the Polytechnical University of Valencia in Spain, explained: “The new Silicon PM detector technology has major advantages in providing better PET position, energy and timing resolution, and it is compatible with MRI. An additional significant benefit of our unique, continuous crystals technology pioneered at I3M, is the greatly enhanced DOI detection for highest resolution across the entire field of view, which is very beneficial for virtually all preclinical PET applications.”
