PET Core
Director: Thomas Brady
Location: Blossom St., Edwards Basement and White II, Boston
| Core Summary: |
The PET Core Laboratory provides a full range of technical and professional services for the design and execution of programs using Positron Emission Tomography (PET).
The PET Core Facility provides the required facilities and personnel on a per study basis to allow investigators to use PET without requiring them to acquire the needed special expertise and equipment.
| Personnel/Contact Information: |
Director: Thomas Brady, M.D.
Phone: (617)
726-8294
Fax: (617)
726-6165
Email: tom@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Other Staff:
Associate Director: John A. Correia, Ph.D.
Director Cyclotron/Radiochemistry Lab
Phone: ( 617)
726-8336
Fax: (617)
726-5123
Email: correia@pet.mgh.harvard.edu
Director of the Imaging Laboratory:
Nathanial Alpert, Ph.D.
Phone: ( 617) 726-8358
Fax: (617) 726-6165
Email:
alpert@pet.mgh.harvard.edu
Director of the PET Radiopharmacy:
Ronald Callahan, Ph.D.
Phone: ( 617) 726-8356
Fax: (617) 726-5123
Email:
callahan@helix.mgh.harvard.edu
| Facilities and Equipment: |
Location of Core:
The Cyclotron/Radiochemistry component of the PET Core is located in the basement of the Edwards Building. The PET Research Imaging Laboratories consist of imaging cameras for human and large-animals imaging on White II and a small animal imaging camera located at the Shriner's Burns Institute and a dedicated DSI Ceraspect brain scanner located at the Charlestown Navy Yard.
Major Equipment:
MC17F Cyclotron (to be replaced Jan. 2009)
Automated Radiochemcal Synthesis systems
PC4096 Large Bore PET Scanner
Exact HR+ Large Bore PET Scanner
Concorde MicroPET Small Animal Scanner
E.cam (Siemens) SPECT Systems and Planar Gamma Cameras
Dedicated DSI Ceraspect Brain Scanner
| Services: |
►Synthesis of Radiopharmaceuticals for PET
►Radiochemistry
Development for PET
►PET
Imaging Protocols
►Experimental
Design and Modeling for PET
| Fee Schedule/Rates: |
| 2008 Pricing | NIH |
Industry |
| 15 0 Gases Brain CBF Metabolism | $2,572.28 |
$3,858.42 |
| H2150 Blood Flow | $2,644.73 |
$3,967.10 |
| 11C Compounds | $2,829.52 |
$4,244.28 |
| 18F Compounds | $2,797.42 |
$4,196.13 |
| 13NH3 Cardiac Blood Flow | $2,412.29 |
$3,618.44 |
| 13N2 Lung Study | $2,331.68 |
$3,497.52 |
| 18F Fluorodeoxyglucose | $1,876.53 |
$2,814.80 |
| Getting Started: |
To access the core, please contact Chris Shambaugh at (617) 726-8353 or by email at cshambaugh@partners.org or other members of the senior staff listed above.
The services of the PET Laboratory are available to all users within the Partners system and to outside users as well. Research services are accessed through contact with the professional staff leading to formalization of a research plan and subsequent review by the Scientific Management Committee. Clinical services are accessed by direct arrangement with the medical staff of the radiology department.
