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Image of a typical positron emission tomography (PET) facility Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique which produces a three dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body. Description Maximum Intensity Projection (MIPS) of a typical 18F-FDG wholebody PET acquisition Schema of a PET acquisition process Schematic view of a detector block and ring of a PET scanner (here: Siemens ECAT Exact HR+) A short-lived ...
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- Positron Emission Tomography (National Women's Health Information Center)
- Positron Emission Tomography: The Power of Molecular Imaging (University of California, Los Angeles)
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