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The BrainPET-7T Insert for Neuroscientific Applications: Performance with and without MRI

2025· article· en· W4417469884 on OpenAlexaff
Christoph Lerche, D. Niekaemper, J. Scheins, Lutz Tellmann, Cláudia Régio Brambilla, Ezequiel Farrher, Jörg Felder, Stefan Krause, M. Schoeneck, D. Arutinov, R.D. Heil, W. Silex, Stefan van Waasen, Dirk Grunwald, M. Lennartz, T. Meurer, Ghaleb Natour, Bjoern Weissler, Florian Mueller, David Schug, Eike Gegenmantel, Harald Radermacher, O. Muelhens, Michael Lang, Pierre Gebhardt, J. Lefaucheur, Zhen Chen, Gary F. Egan, Volkmar Schulz, N. Jon Shah

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMedical Imaging Techniques and Applications
Canadian institutionsHyperion Technologies (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsImage qualityImaging phantomPet imagingNoise (video)Image resolutionInsert (composites)Functional imagingSpurious relationshipPreclinical imaging

Abstract

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We present the performance of a high-resolution, high-sensitivity, and UHF-MRI-compatible BrainPET insert for in vivo multimodal and multi-parametric neuroscientific imaging applications in humans. In this performance evaluation we studied mutual compatibility, PET-relevant imaging parameters, (spatial resolution, sensitivity, noise equivalent count rate, and coincidence time resolution), and MRI-relevant imaging parameters, (image homogeneity, image SNR, field homogeneity, and quality of spectra acquired for single-voxel${ }^{1} \mathrm{H}$spectroscopy). Potential imaging applications for nuclei other than${ }^{1} \mathrm{H}$(e.g.${ }^{13} \mathrm{C},{ }^{19} ~\mathrm{F},{ }^{23} \text{Na}$, and${ }^{31} \mathrm{P}$) were also considered. In addition, we acquired PET-only in ovo images of a chick embryo and compared the images to those obtained with a Siemens Inveon small animal PET/CT. The PET insert was shown to have a homogeneous spatial resolution of$\approx 1.6 ~\text{mm}$paired with a sensitivity of$57.2 \text{kcps} / \text{MBq}$. MR image SNR is$\approx 10 \%$lower when measured with the PET insert installed and running. However, spurious RF noise spectra with running PET are free of detectable interference for${ }^{1} \mathrm{H}$and${ }^{19} ~\mathrm{F}$within the relevant frequency bandwidths. No PET count rate loss was observed for most typical MR sequences. Thus, the BrainPET-7T provides a unique multimodal imaging tool for neuroscience with excellent MR and PET image quality.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.035

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.005

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.315
Teacher spread0.301 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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