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Positron-Emission Tomography

Known as: PT, proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, Positron emission tomography (PET) 
A technique for measuring the gamma radiation produced by collisions of electrons and positrons (anti-electrons) within living tissue. In positron… 
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Review
2006
Review
2006
The developments in positron emission tomography (PET) are reviewed with an emphasis on instrumentation for clinical PET imaging… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
The imaging of specific molecular targets that are associated with cancer should allow earlier diagnosis and better management of… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Requiring only minimal assumptions for validity, nonparametric permutation testing provides a flexible and intuitive methodology… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Positron emission tomography (PET) is now regularly used in the diagnosis and staging of cancer. These uses and its ability to… 
Review
1994
Review
1994
Data are reviewed from positron emission tomography studies of encoding and retrieval processes in episodic memory. These data… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
In pursuing our work on the organization of human visual cortex, we wanted to specify more accurately the position of the visual… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Studies of brain-damaged patients have revealed the existence of a selective impairment of face processing, prosopagnosia… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Positron emission tomography (PET) was used to identify the neural systems involved in discriminating the shape, color, and speed… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
POSITRON emission tomographic (PET) studies of human attention have begun to dissect isolable components of this complex higher…