PET SCANNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does PET scanner mean? 

• PET SCANNER (noun)
  The noun PET SCANNER has 1 sense:

1. a tomograph that produces cross-sectional X-rays of metabolic processes in the body

  Familiarity information: PET SCANNER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PET SCANNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tomograph that produces cross-sectional X-rays of metabolic processes in the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

PET scanner; positron emission tomography scanner

Hypernyms ("PET scanner" is a kind of...):

tomograph (X-ray machine in which a computer builds a detailed image of a particular plane through an object from multiple X-ray measurements)

 Context examples 

An adjusted PET scanner's count rate that results from a specified activity concentration within.

(Noise Equivalent Count Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

A PET scanner is used to detect which cells in the body have taken up C-11 choline.

(C-11 choline, NCI Dictionary)

A PET scanner is used to detect which cells in the body have taken up fluorine F 18 fluoromethylcholine.

(fluorine F 18 fluoromethylcholine, NCI Dictionary)

A PET scanner is used to detect which cells in the body have taken up copper Cu 64-ATSM.

(copper Cu 64-ATSM, NCI Dictionary)

A dedicated PET scanner with a small diameter ring of detectors that bring these close to small animal subjects.

(MicroPET, NCI Thesaurus)

In cancer, the radioactive substance may be used with a special machine (such as a PET scanner) to find the cancer, to see how far it has spread, or to see how well a treatment is working.

(Nuclear medicine, NCI Dictionary)

The use of coincidence with a pair of gammas giving a coincidence event in detectors 180 degrees apart in a PET scanner to define a line of response along which lies the location of the radiation emitting tracer.

(Electronic Collimation, NCI Thesaurus)