The Siemens microPET Focus 220 preclinical PET scanner is the second generation large-bore PET system expanding the capabilities of its predecessor, the microPET P4 PET scanner. The microPET Focus 220 is designed specifically to accommodate a range of animal sizes, allowing you to visualize and quantify disease and the action of novel therapies in living animals – from small or large rodents to non-human primates. Now you can non-invasively track molecular events to improve research data, expedite drug development and reduce the cost of preclinical research.

LSO Detector Technology
The performance of a PET scanner depends greatly upon the physical and scintillation properties of the crystal detector material. LSO offers the best combination of properties of any PET scintillator used today— fast scintillation decay time, high light output, and effective atomic number.

Excellent Count Rate Performance
To minimize electronic dead time that occurs in PET scanners with multiplexed acquisition systems, microPET provides one acquisition channel for each detector. One-for-one read out offers uncompromised PET performance.

Attenuation and Normalization
microPET is equipped with a precision point source mechanism for performing attenuation correction and normalization.

Continuous Bed Motion
With computer controlled vertical and horizontal bed motion, the microPET Focus 220 can perform whole-body biodistribution or dynamic imaging with an effective axial FOV of up to 50 cm (using primate bed pallet) using continuous bed motion acquisition.

Removable Bed Pallet
Made of low-attenuating, non ferrous, 100 % composite material, the microPET bed pallet is easily removed for use in other imaging modalities such as CT and MRI. Subjects are easily relocated within each imaging modality for co-registration of image data.