Micro-Dose, Wearable PET Brain Imager

April 23, 2016

Brefczynski-Lewis, assisted by graduate student Chris Bauer, dons her PET-helmet prototype to demonstrate the device's portability. (Lois Raimondo/For The Washington Post)

Summary

Principal Investigator: Julie Brefczynski-Lewis
WVU Center for Neuroscience
Title: Imaging the Brain in Motion: The Ambulatory Micro-Dose, Wearable PET Brain Imager
BRAIN Category: Next Generation Human Imaging (RFA MH-14-217)

Dr. Brefczynski-Lewis and co-workers will engineer a wearable PET scanner that images activity of the human brain in motion – for example, while taking a walk in the park.

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