Published December 1999
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Book
Development of a miniature PET scanner
Creators
- 1. Dept. of Physics, Panjab Univ., Chandigarh (India)
- 2. Fakultaet fuer Physik, Univ. of Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany)
- 3. Institut fuer Geophysik und Geologie, Univ. of Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany)
Description
PET (Positron Emission Tomography) is a noninvasive diagnostic technique for probing human physiology. In this process a tracer (a radiopharmaceutical) is administered to the patient and the PET scanner is used to record the time dependent distribution of the radioactive nuclei in the body
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Imprint Place
- Mumbai (India)
- Imprint Title
- DAE symposium on nuclear physics: contributed papers. V. 42B
- Imprint Pagination
- 505 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 426-427
Conference
- Title
- DAE symposium on nuclear physics
- Dates
- 27-31 Dec 1999
- Place
- Chandigarh (India)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- India
- Country of Input or Organization
- India
- INIS RN
- 32010178
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ANNIHILATION; DIAGNOSTIC USES; GAMMA RADIATION; KEV RANGE 100-1000; POSITRON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPE SCANNERS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SODIUM 22; SPECIFICATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DRUGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENERGY RANGE; INTERACTIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; KEV RANGE; LABELLED COMPOUNDS; LIGHT NUCLEI; MATERIALS; NANOSEC LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; RADIATIONS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOISOTOPES; SODIUM ISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY; USES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES