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positron emission tomography: a standalone construct

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Medical imaging

nuclear imaging that detects coincident annihilation photon pairs from a positron-emitting tracer to map its distribution in three dimensions.

In medical imaging, positron emission tomography refers to nuclear imaging that detects coincident annihilation photon pairs from a positron-emitting tracer to map its distribution in three dimensions. This meaning comes from Ter-Pogossian (1975) in Radiology.[1]

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References

Ter-Pogossian, M. M., Phelps, M. E., Hoffman, E. J., & Mullani, N. A. (1975). A Positron-Emission Transaxial Tomograph for Nuclear Imaging (PETT). Radiology, 114(1), 89-98. https://doi.org/10.1148/114.1.89

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