Total-body imaging: Transforming the role of positron emission tomography

Sci Transl Med. 2017 Mar 15;9(381):eaaf6169. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf6169.

Authors

Simon R Cherry¹, Ramsey D Badawi², Joel S Karp³, William W Moses⁴, Pat Price⁵, Terry Jones²

Affiliations

¹ University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA. srcherry@ucdavis.edu.
² University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
³ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
⁴ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
⁵ Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, U.K.

Abstract

The first total-body positron emission tomography (TB-PET) scanner represents a radical change for experimental medicine and diagnostic health care.

Copyright © 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research
Delivery of Health Care
Humans
Positron-Emission Tomography / instrumentation
Positron-Emission Tomography / methods*
Whole Body Imaging*

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