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Definition of PET scanner
1. Noun. A tomograph that produces cross-sectional X-rays of metabolic processes in the body.
Lexicographical Neighbors of PET Scanner
Literary usage of PET scanner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"... positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, neuro-PET scanner and moderate
size cyclotron. There are clinical laboratories with hot and cold rooms, ..."
2. VA Hospitals: Issues and Challenges for the Future edited by Stephen P. Backhus (2000)
"In addition, the two hospitals established a mobile lithotripsy network to serve
hospitals in western Montana.166 A PET scanner at the University of Texas ..."
3. Successes and Difficulties of Small Innovative Firms in Russian Nuclear by Benjamin S Carson, Sr M.D. (2002)
"CTI then received investment capital in 1985 to finance the development of a new
PET scanner product line and a new RDS cyclotron. ..."
4. Individual Differences in the Behavioral Etiology of Drug Abuse edited by Harold W. Gordon, Meyer D. Glantz (1997)
"The PET studies will be done using a whole-body, high-resolution PET scanner.
Subjects will be positioned in the PET camera with the individual headholder ..."
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