Wednesday, 2. June 2004
Topic: SCIENCE - on June 2, 2004 at 2:44:00 AM CEST
Harnessing brain scans
Mobile device allows scientists to monitor brain activity while rats are still awake and free of anesthesia.
While you may not be able to give your pet rat a PET scan anytime soon, scientists are working on a miniature system to allow researchers to study the brain activity of awake laboratory animals.
The device is a compact positron emission tomography, or PET, scanner that can be slipped onto the head of a laboratory rat. Called the RatCAP, the device is being developed by a team at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University and the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada.
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