CAMH PET CENTRE

Welcome to the Vivian M Rakoff PET Centre at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The PET Centre is fully dedicated to brain research using positron emission tomography. The Centre fosters multidisciplinary research within the University of Toronto academic community. The PET Centre has an internal research program as well as collaborative projects with investigators throughout the University of Toronto neuroscience community... The PET Centre is an international leader in the application of PET Methodology to neuropsychiatric disorders and the addictions. It has a cyclotron and a radiochemistry facility for the production of positron emitting radiopharmaceuticals (PERs) for human use. The Centre has two PET scanners: a brain High-Resolution Research Tomograph (HRRT) and a whole-body PET/CT scanner.