Positron-Emission Tomography
"Positron-Emission Tomography" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An imaging technique using compounds labelled with short-lived positron-emitting radionuclides (such as carbon-11, nitrogen-13, oxygen-15 and fluorine-18) to measure cell metabolism. It has been useful in study of soft tissues such as CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; and brain. SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY is closely related to positron emission tomography, but uses isotopes with longer half-lives and resolution is lower.
| Descriptor ID |
D049268
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.350.350.800.700 E01.370.350.600.350.800.399 E01.370.350.710.800.399 E01.370.350.825.800.399 E01.370.384.730.800.399
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| Concept/Terms |
Positron-Emission Tomography- Positron-Emission Tomography
- Positron Emission Tomography
- PET Scan
- PET Scans
- Scan, PET
- Scans, PET
- Tomography, Positron-Emission
- Tomography, Positron Emission
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| 2004 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2005 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2006 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
| 2007 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2008 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| 2009 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2011 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2012 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2013 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2014 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 2015 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2016 | 10 | 4 | 14 |
| 2017 | 9 | 9 | 18 |
| 2018 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
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