EXPLORER, UC Davis Health, Department of Radiology

Background

The EXPLORER Total Body Scanner was designed to be the world’s highest sensitivity positron emission tomography (PET) scanner.

PET is an extremely safe medical imaging technique that can map the location or track the movement of tiny amounts of radioactively-tagged compounds (radiotracers) after they are introduced into the body.

Our new EXPLORER Total Body Scanner acquires PET images of the body, from head to toe, all at the same time. It is the first and only Total Body PET scanner approved by the FDA in the United States.

The EXPLORER scanner has an effective sensitivity for total-body imaging that is 40-fold higher than current commercial scanners and is expected to open up completely new ways in which PET can be used in biomedical research and ultimately in clinical practice.