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Suleman Surti1, Joel S Karp, Paul E Kinahan.
Abstract
PET is a nuclear medicine imaging modality and belongs to the family of emission CT, which also includes single-photon emission CT. PET measures the physiologic function inside the human body by measuring the concentration of a radioactively-labeled compound that is taken up by and accumulated in the body's organs. This article discusses the instrumentation used in PET.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID： 15488554 DOI： 10.1016/j.rcl.2004.08.011
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Radiol Clin North Am ISSN： 0033-8389 Impact factor: 2.303