MicroPET is a dedicated PET scanner designed for high resolution imaging of small laboratory animals. It has been developed and built by a team of researchers at the Crump Institute for Biological Imaging, UCLA.

The aim was to build a compact and relatively low cost PET scanner with unprecedented spatial resolution that would be useful to researchers in a wide range of biomedical research applications.

This interactive guide is designed to give you an introduction to microPET, how it works and the types of studies one can perform. A commercial version of the microPET scanner is available from Concorde Microsystems Inc.