Prism-PET/EMMT: high Resolution, cost-effective, portable, and upright brain PET scanner for early diagnosis of alzheimer's disease

Active Research Project
Investigator(s): 
Amir Goldan Gloria Chiang, M.D.
Last Updated: 
January 3, 2025

The major goals of this funded U01 grant are:

1.) Develop a compact, portable, cost-effective, and upright brain PET scanner — known as Prism-PET — with ultra-high resolution, high sensitivity, motion compensation, and CT-less attenuation correction.

2.) Integrate the Prism-PET brain scanner with our ultra-high resolution electromagnetic motion tracking (EMMT) to eliminate motion artifacts.

3.) Perform clinical translation of supine Prism-PET/EMMT for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease using a second-generation tau radiotracer.

Weill Cornell Medicine
Department of Radiology
525 East 68th Street New York, NY 10065