Positron emission tomography/Definition

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Positron emission tomography [r]: An 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.National Library of Medicine