A PET SCANNER – TOOL FOR MEDICAL IMAGING



pet Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is one form of radio-pharmaceutical diagnosis. It is a combination of great inventions of technology: computer tomography and scintillator technique developed in large extent at CERN. A positron emission camera comprises a plurality of scintillators, which are based on chrystals, especially LuAP. The PET is a powerful technique whose development owes much to CERN and Geneva Cantonal Hospital. PET allows disease-related changes in tissues and organs to be detected long before serious symptoms set in. The PET is especially useful in functional brain imaging.
 
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