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Basic Principles of Positron Emission Tomography

Coura-Filho et al., 2022

Document ID
11591225514935437649
Author
Coura-Filho G
Torres Silva de Oliveira M
Morais de Campos A
Publication year
Publication venue
Nuclear Medicine in Endocrine Disorders: Diagnosis and Therapy

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Positron emission tomography is a nuclear medicine modality that uses short-lived isotopes that emit a positron. Since acquisition principles favor greater radiation detections it is usually associated with better images than conventional nuclear medicine, which may lead …
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