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Nuclear medicine

Prompt gammas enable sub-millimetre-resolution, multi-isotope PET

05 Mar 2021 Tami Freeman
Dual-tracer PET
PET/CT of a mouse co-injected with two PET tracers. From left to right, the columns show: 18F-NaF image; 18F-NaF image corrected for 124I-NaI annihilation photons; 124I-NaI image from 603 keV prompt gammas showing small details from the thyroid; the merged dual-isotope image. (Courtesy: Phys. Med. Biol. 10.1088/1361-6560/abe5fc)
Preclinical imaging systems such as positron emission tomography (PET) scanners provide an essential

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