MILE-PET®, the world’s first dedicated equine Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner, enables safe imaging of equine limb without anesthesia in a standing, sedated horse. The device is compact, so there are no additional construction costs. Any room (e.g. scintigraphy area) can quickly turn into a PET imaging suite. MILE-PET® has 2 mm spatial resolution, 254 mm bore diameter, and up to 225 mm axial field of view (Download Data Sheet). Read more about MILE-PET® testing in Veterinary Radiology and US.
A mobile device, MILE-PET®, can easily be positioned over a limb of a standing, sedated horse.
Adjustable detector height allows access to all joints in the distal limb, including foot, fetlock, carpus, and tarsus.
As a safety measure, MILE-PET® detector ring easily opens when the horse decides to step out of the device.
Occasionally a PET study in a standing horse may be degraded by the animal moving inside the scanner. MILE-PET employs sophisticated algorithms to correct for such motion. More examples can be found here.
When anatomic imaging is available (CT/MRI/radiography), it can be fused with PET to confirm lesion localization in GalateaTM software integrated with MILE-PET®. More information can be found here.
