Mobile imaging unit

A mobile imaging unit configured for transport between a first location and a second location, the mobile imaging unit comprising:

• a base configured to rest upon a ground surface that is external to the mobile imaging unit, the base extending from the ground surface to a floor of the mobile imaging unit, the base having a first footprint when transported from the first location to the second location and a second footprint when in an installed position;
• a plurality of walls extending upward from the base to define an interior of the mobile imaging unit therebetween, the interior of the mobile imaging unit having:
• an imaging room housing an imaging unit for a patient;
• a control room having a workstation from which the imaging unit is controllable;
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• a plurality of uptake rooms, each of the plurality of uptake rooms having a seat for the patient to wait for a radiotracer to travel through the patient to a location that is to be scanned by the imaging unit;
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• an extension forming a portion of the interior of the mobile imaging unit that extends outward from the first footprint of the base, the extension movable relative to a remainder of the mobile imaging unit between a stowed position and an installed position.

A method of assembling a mobile imaging unit from a transport position to a use position, the method comprising:

• transporting the mobile imaging unit from a first location to a second location and resting a base of the mobile imaging unit on a ground surface at the second location;
• raising a wall of the mobile imaging unit to form a ceiling of an extension;
• lowering a surface within the mobile imaging unit to form a floor of the extension;
• sliding a wall on casters along the floor of the extension from a location within an interior of the mobile imaging unit to an edge of the floor of the extension to form an external wall of the extension, thereby increasing a footprint of the mobile imaging unit in the use position relative to the transport position.