Positron emission tomography/Related Articles

Positron emission tomography: A medical imaging technique using compounds labelled with short-lived positron-emitting radionuclides (such as carbon-11, nitrogen-13, oxygen-15 and fluorine-18) to measure cell metabolism. ^[e]

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Parent topics

• Nuclear medicine [r]: That medical specialty, or subspecialty, concerned with diagnosis and treatment using radioisotopes administered to the patient ^[e]
• Computed tomography [r]: An imaging technique that computes three-dimensional representations of an object from a series of two-dimensional x-ray images. ^[e]

Other related topics

• X-ray computed tomography [r]: Three-dimensional medical imaging method, employing tomography created by computer processing. ^[e]