Abstract

LOPEZ-DURAN, Fred Alonso; ZAMORA-ROMO, Efrafn; ALONSO-MORALES, José Luis  and  MENDOZA-VASQUES, Guillermo. Positron Emission Tomography: new paradigms. TIP [online]. 2007, vol.10, n.1, pp.26-35. ISSN 1405-888X.

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a sophisticated technique used in nuclear medicine for non-invasive diagnostic of several diseases. Several technologies that generate quantitative, spatial and functional information about biological processes are fused in PET. Such information is obtained through images of molecular and cellular events which are directly taken from living organisms by using radiochemicals PET.

Keywords : Cyclotron; molecular imaging; PET; radiopharmaceutical PET; positron emission tomography.