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Scientists at UC Davis outline the development and benefits of this innovative diagnostic tool.
Allows imaging of all the tissues and organs of the body simultaneously.
Will be able to detect focal pathologies at considerably lower levels of disease activity than is currently possible.
Scan times could be less than one minute.
Positron emission tomography (PET) is the most sensitive technique for non-invasively studying the living human being.
The study was published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM).
