Nuclear Medicine
First Semiconductor-Based PET Scanner Demonstrates Potential to Help in Early Diagnosis of Disease
Evaluations of the first-ever prototype PET brain scanner that uses semiconductor detectors indicate that the scanner could further the effectiveness and spatial resolution of PET imaging. More...21 Jul 2008

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