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SynchroPET Appears in Newsday as a Success Story

Two Long Island investment funds took a chance in 2014-15 on 10 technology startups, giving them a total of $1 million. Since then, the startups have raised $24 million from venture capitalists, government agencies and other businesses. That ability to attract capital...

SynchroPET Exhibits at WMIC (World Molecular Imaging Congress) During September at the Javits Center in New York City

SynchroPET featured its platform technology to a focused audience of research institutions from all over the world. The simplicity of the exhibit focused attention to the PET Insert and of course, the Mini-PET. Its integration to existing small animal MRIs enabling...

Innovate LI: SynchroPET Gets An A In U Of Buffalo Testing

Stony Brook-based SynchroPET has taken another step toward unprecedented, simultaneous PET/MRI imaging. By placing a PET camera into the bore of an existing MRI machine – that’s the chamber where the patient slides in – SynchroPET achieved “another significant...

Newsday: 5 join no-tax-zone, to add 58 jobs

Small businesses that are developing a home automation system, improvements to MRI equipment and testing services for drugmakers are among the newest tenants for a state designated tax-free zone at Stony Brook University. Read Full Article

Enterprise: The Startup That’s Bringing AI to Ultrasounds and MRIs

THAT MASSIVE MRI machine at the hospital that can look for damage inside your knee? It's not just enormous. It's enormously complex and expensive. And operating the thing takes not only time but expertise. The same goes for the ultrasound machine that a provides...

Long Island Business News: Accelerate LI awards $500K, possibly more

Accelerate Long Island and the Long Island Emerging Technologies Fund have approved the disbursement of $500,000 for five biotech and energy startups in what could be the start of a new source of cash for Long Island firms that could soon include millions more....

Xconomy: Accelerate LI Seeds First Batch of Biotech, Cleantech Startups

Xconomy New York — After a few years of organizing and bringing together local VC firms, picking an investment philosophy, and sifting through pitches from hopeful startups, Accelerate Long Island has selected its first companies to seed. Read Full...

Popular Science: Wearable PET Scanner For Rats Enables Real-Time Monitoring of Awake, Moving Animals’ Brains

A new type of brain scanner attaches to a rat's head, allowing neuroscientists to study the brains of fully awake, mobile lab animals for the first time. The RatCAP, for Rat Conscious Animal PET, is worn over a rat's head like a crown. A system of springs and...

BBC: Wearable PET scanner maps rat brains in real time

A miniaturised scanner that can peer into the brains of freely-roaming rats has been demonstrated by researchers. Their wearable "Ratcap" does positron emission tomography - an established technique that tracks the movement and change of an injected molecule....

MSNBC: So here’s how a rat’s brain works in the rat race

Rats sporting tiny metal caps are not the latest in rodent fashion but rather an attempt to learn more about their brains and by extension help unravel mysteries about the human brain. The headgear, appropriately called a RatCAP, is a positron emission...

RatCAP: a small, head-mounted PET tomograph for imaging the brain of an awake rat

This paper will describe the novel features and challenges of this new detector, along with preliminary results obtained with a pair of block detectors used in a configuration similar to the final tomograph. Results are given on studies carried out to optimize the...

Initial studies using the RatCAP conscious animal PET tomograph

Construction of the first working prototype detector has been completed and its performance characteristics have been measured. First preliminary images have been obtained using 18F-FDG and 11C-methamphetamine, which show comparable image quality to those obtained...

System Performance Simulations of the RatCAP Awake Rat Brain Scanner

The effects of the RatCAPs small ring diameter ( 40 mm) and its block detector geometry on image quality for small animal studies have been investigated. In addition to Monte Carlo simulations, some preliminary results of experimentally acquired images in both...

Integrating PET with behavioral neuroscience using RatCAP tomography

Small animals typically require anesthesia to remain still during PET imaging, which places a burden on behavioral studies. Our approach integrates PET with behavioral observations using a miniature PET scanner that rats wear on the head, a mobility system to...

Front-End Electronics for the RatCAP Mobile Animal PET Scanner

We report on the development of the front-end electronics for RatCAP. So far, three ASIC prototypes implementing part of the electronics were sent to fabrication. Results from the characterization of the first two prototypes are presented and discussed… View Full...

The RatCAP Front-End ASIC

We report on the design and characterization of a new ASIC for the RatCAP. The ASIC is composed of 32 channels, each consisting of a charge sensitive preamplifier, a 5-bit programmable gain in the pole-zero network, a 3 order bipolar semi-Gaussian shaper (peaking time...

Digital Coincidence Processing for the RatCAP Conscious Rat Brain PET Scanner

In order to maximize system performance, offline digital coincidence data processing algorithms including offset delay correction and prompt and delayed coincidence detection have been developed and validated. The experimental results confirm that the ratio of prompts...

Next Generation of Real Time Data Acquisition, Calibration and Control System for the RatCAP Scanner

Simultaneous assessment of rodent behavior and neurochemistry using a miniature positron emission tomograph

The simultaneity of the PET and behavioral data provides a multidimensional tool for studying the functions of different brain regions and their molecular constituents. Key components include the ‘rat conscious animal PET’ or RatCAP, a miniature portable PET scanner...

Rapid [18F]FDG Uptake in Brain of Awake, Behaving Rat and Anesthetized Chicken has Implications for Behavioral PET Studies in Species with High Metabolisms

The rapid uptake times of 18F-FDG both in the awake, behaving rat and the anesthetized chicken together with the rapid dynamics of rat and chicken behavior suggest that uptake times matched accurately with behavior for the same time periods will reduce random error in...