Portable PET scanner allows for views of brains in motion

Researchers will now be able to find out what’s going on in study subjects’ brains as they move around, perform tasks or speak. That’s because a project from doctors at the University of Virginia Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging have invented the first wearable PET scanner, called the AM-PET Helmet.

According to Digital Trends, the helmet’s purpose will be to bring insights about how the brain works in situations that can’t be replicated inside a lab or while a subject is stuck laying down inside a machine. One of the helmet’s creaters, Stan Majewski, even thinks it could help find cures for brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

Check out Digital Trends to see how else researchers hope to harness the new power of the PET helmet.