Facility Description
Summary | Equipment | Personnel
Summary:
Emory Center for Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Mark M. Goodman, M.D., Director, is a modern 3,000 square foot facility with the Emory University Hospital. The CSI-PET Center contains two scanner suites, a cyclotron vault, radiochemistry and organic chemistry space dedicated to the production of radionuclides and radiopharmaceuticals for basic science and clinical research and diagnostic nuclear medicine. Scanner suite one contains a Siemens ECAT EXACT 47 (921) scanner, a whole body scanner with 54 cm transaxial and 16.2 cm axial field of views. The septa are easily removed to permit 3D data acquisition. Data acquisition modes include static, dynamic, whole body, and gated. The intrinsic resolution is 5 mm in all directions. The room is equipped with anesthesia gases and exhaust and a pneumatic tube system for delivery of doses from the cyclotron suite downstairs. The second scanner room contains an ECAT 951 scanner with a 54 cm transaxial field of view and a 10.8 cm axial field of view. It is identical in all aspects to the 921 scanner except for the shorter axial field of view and its septa. The CSI-PET Center has an on-site Siemens RDS 112 multiport, self-shielded, automated cyclotron producing an 11 MeV, 50 µA proton beam. The cyclotron is equipped with targets for the routine production of curie amounts of [18F]fluoride, [18F]fluorine, [11C]carbon dioxide, and [15O]oxygen and 100 millicurie amounts of [13N]ammonia.
Resource and Environment page (pdf-format)
Center for Positron Emission Tomography (pdf-format)
Detailed Description of Lab: (pdf-format)
Equipment:
- Siemens ECAT EXACT 47 (921) scanner
- Siemens ECAT 951 scanner
- Siemens RDS 112 multiport cyclotron
- Victoreen Gas Delivery System (GDS)
- TruScan Patient Restraint System
- Quinton Q750B EKG
- Ohmeda Biox 3700 Pulse oximeter
- Sage 351 infusion/withdrawal syringe pump
- Dinamap 1846 SX Critikon vital signs monitor
- Ciba-Corning 238 pH/Blood Gas Analyzer (pH, pO2, pCO2, O2 saturation, TCO2, Base excess, HCO3)
- Beckman Glucose Analyzer 2
- Packard Cobra II Auto Gamma well counter
- Sorvall MC120 centrifuge
- 2 Dionex DX 300 radio-HPLC units
- PAD Cell w/ Gold electrode
- Conductivity Cell
- PED Cell w/glassy carbon electrodes and IN/US Radiometric detectors
- Rheodyne HPLC injector
- Waters' 510 HPLC pump
- Bioscan hot cell radiometric detector
- Varian Star 3400 radio-gas chromatograph
- Oxford sodium iodide detector and well counter/multichannel analyzer
- 2 Capintec 712M dose calibrators with remote ionization chamber
- 4 Mettler electronic balances
- Panasonic video equipment
- 4 visible/infra-red light cameras
- Computing:
- SUN SPARCstation 10
- SUN Ultra 10 creator 3D
- SUN Ultra 1 creator 3D
- Power Macintosh 8100 AV
- Macintosh Quadra 800 computer
- CD-RW Drive
- SPARC laser printer
- Seiko SII color printer
Personnel:
Organization Layout: (Word format)
Contact Information
Qura Hill
404-712-0108 phone
404-712-7435 fax
qhill@emory.edu
Clinical Director:
David Schuster, M.D. (Biosketch - pdf Format)
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Phone: 404.712.4843
Director of PET Chemistry:
Mark M. Goodman, Ph.D. (Biosketch - pdf-format)
Professor of Radiology & Psychiatry
Administrative Assistant: Mary David
Phone: 404.727.9366
Email: mgoodma@emory.edu
PET Chemists:
Ron Voll, Ph.D.
Jeffrey Stehouwer, Ph.D. (Biosketch - pdf-format)
Nachwa Jarkas, Ph.D. (Biosketch - pdf-format)
Weiping Yu, Ph.D. (Biosketch - pdf-format)
Fanxing Zeng, Ph.D. (Biosketch - pdf-format)
Jiyoung Mun, Ph.D.
PET Chemistry Fellow:
Wone Woo Seo, Ph.D.
PET Imaging:
C. David Cooke, MSEE
Assistant Professor of Radiology
PET Physicists:
John R. Votaw, Ph.D. (Biosketch - pdf-format)
Director of PET Physics
Professor of Radiology
Phone: 404.712.7954
Email: John.Votaw@emoryhealthcare.org
Physics Fellows
Jonathon Nye, Ph.D. (Biosketch - pdf-format)
PET Radiopharmacy:
Director: Ron Crowe, R.Ph.
Karen Dolph, R.Ph.
Shane Waldrep, B.S.
PET Technologists:
Supervisor: Delicia Votaw, CNMT
Margie Jones, CNMT