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Anatomical overlay allows fast field of view selection 

Milabs introduces a novel  tool  to accurately and quickly select the fields-of-view when setting up your U-SPECT acquisition. Using an anatomic overlay the position of organs is clearly projected over optical images of the animal. Apart from the convenience it can result in shorter and more accurate scans since pinholes are more focused to your area of interest. This allows you to acquire huge amounts of counts from the structures of your interest.

Introducing U-Reg™ for accurate multi-modality imaging

MIlabs launches specific software to improve accurate multi-modality preclinical imaging. The U-Reg™ software makes sure that micro-SPECT images will match micro-CT images with great accuracy. Freek Beekman, CEO: ”First we developed the software to make sure that our click-over approach between U-SPECT and U-CT will result in accurately registered images, but the software can also be used to match images from other modalities like micro-PET and micro-MRI. In fact, MIlabs will be able to offer U-Reg™ as a special service to all of its clients to make multi-modality imaging more flexible and accurate”.

Society of Nuclear Medicine Highlight: U-SPECT Rat Brain Image

During the Society of Nuclear Medicine congress in New Orleans, Milabs introduced its new dedicated rat brain collimator. With this dedicated collimator rat brain scans with resolutions below 0.5 mm can be made. Images of this new U-SPECT accessory were shown in Dr. Henry Wagner’s Highlight Lecture.

New systems up and running

MILabs announces successful installations of a U-SPECT II in the Netherlands and Belgium. Both systems immediately met the sub half-mm image resolution specifications. Prof. Anne Paans, head Medical Physics of the Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Department of University Medical Centre Groningen, commented: “We are certainly pleased with the U-SPECT. A week after the start of the installation it clearly met its sub-half millimeter resolution specifications. We could immediately successfully scan tumors with Indium-111. This new microSPECT imaging tool will definitely help our research programs in fields of oncology and cardiology and will give it an important boost to longitudinal studies."

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New website

Today MILabs launched its new website. According to Freek Beekman, CEO and founder of the company, this launch is more than a make-over: “Since we are installing systems internationally we see the need to clarify our objectives and strategies for the future. This is what the website will show. We will also use the site as a platform to share research information with present and future customers through a special organization, called MILabs Community”.

MILabs Community is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing together scientific professionals affiliated with preclinical imaging worldwide to foster scholarly exchange of scientific information in this field, to sponsor and promote ways to reduce or eliminate the use of animals for scientific research, and to educate the public about the results of preclinical scientific research.

MILabs BV expands internationally

MILabs announced the first installation in Belgium of its U-SPECT-II system. Dr. Steven Staelens of Ghent University - IBBT Medisp (Medical Image and Signal Processing) research group said: “We are very pleased with the arrival of this machine. We were impressed to see how fast the installation went: together with MILabs we only performed 2 days of installation and 2 days of calibration. Already during this first week we could schedule 1 day of mice measurements and 1 day of rat measurements. This resulted in impressive datasets of pertechnetate Tc-99m thyroid images in mice, tetrofosmin Tc-99m cardiac images in rats and bone scans in both rodents.”

First Ultra-high resolution images with Indium

In their latest experiments, University of Utrecht researchers discovered that the U-SPECT II can deliver Indium (In-111) images with almost the same resolution as the more common Tc-99m images that are routinely being made in several of its research programs. The use of Indium labeled tracers, besides the commonly used technetium labeled tracers, is significant because it opens new fields of research especially in oncology.