The ‘ANCORIS’ PET Scanner is designed to acquire data, process and display images by appropriated trained medical professionals via measuring the distribution of injected positron emitting radiopharmaceuticals in humans for the purpose of determining various metabolic and physiologic functions within the human body.
An assembly of devices comprising a diagnostic, positron emission tomography (PET) imaging system used to detect, record, quantify and analyse 511 kilo-electronvolt (keV) photon emission patterns resulting from annihilation reactions produced during the decay of positron emitting radiopharmaceuticals. It produces three-dimensional (3-D) tomographic digital cross-sectional physiological images representing distribution patterns of positron emitting radiopharmaceuticals ingested by, or injected into the patient. It typically uses lead collimators and specialized software for image reconstruction allowing mapping of metabolic patterns and rates associated with targeted physiological processes.