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Review
. 2004 Nov;42(6):1003-16, vii.
doi: 10.1016/j.rcl.2004.08.011.

PET instrumentation

Suleman Surti  1 , Joel S Karp, Paul E Kinahan
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Review

PET instrumentation

Suleman Surti et al. Radiol Clin North Am. 2004 Nov.

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.

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