Weill Cornell Medicine receives grant for new brain PET scanner

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers in New York have received a five-year, $6.2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to build a portable, high-resolution brain PET scanner, according to a report in the Cornell Chronicle.

The PET scanner will be upright so that patients can sit in a chair that travels with the unit, which will significantly improve portability and accessibility, and will be designed to detect brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, the story noted.

The grant follows positive results of a proof-of-concept study published last year using a prototype called Prism-PET.

 

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