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Updated: January 12th, 2011 09:49 AM CDT
Researching the Brain
Using gamma ray technology to investigate diseases
Images courtesty The Center for Gamma-Ray Imaging
Figure 1.
The complete FastSPECT III imaging system, with acquisition/
processing computers. CCD data from all cameras are acquired
and processed simultaneously.
Figure 2A.
Front view of the FastSPECT III imaging system. A central ring of 10 and two outer rings of five BazookaSPECT detectors focus at a common field of view.
Figure 2B.
Side view of the FastSPECT III imaging system. A central ring of 10 and two outer rings of five BazookaSPECT detectors focus at a common field of view.
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This technology is another new step toward developing treatment strategies for diseases of the brain. “For example,” Miller says, “in Alzheimer’s patients, there are plaques [in the brain]. Are they the cause or the result? Drugs are coming out to remove them and see if they have any effect or not. A few years ago, this was not possible. Our acquisition system has five computers, each with graphics cards with multiple cores. They process in parallel and high resolution and in real-time frame rates. It was driven by the gaming industry. And that will drive the price down for scientists.”
