PET scanning

[ pet skan-ing ]

noun

, Computers, Medicine/Medical.

1. the action or process of using a PET scanner to obtain an image.

Word History and Origins

Origin of PET scanning¹

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

But the center has just six infusion chairs and one PET scanning machine, which can handle two or three patients a day.

From New York Times

She was an early adopter of PET scanning technology for neuroscience.Credit:

From Nature

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From New York Times

MR angiography,Pet scanning, high field strength for Orthopedic diagnosis.

From New York Times

But others note that the study did not follow patients across time, a big weakness that makes it difficult to conclude that “tau spreading” caused the decreased functional connectivity, says Jorge Sepulcre of Harvard Medical School in Boston, who uses PET scanning to probe the impacts of neurodegenerative diseases on brain network connectivity.

From Science Magazine