positron emission tomography
Medicine
noun
An imaging technique in which substances incorporating positron-emitting isotopes are introduced into the body, used especially for the precise localization of metabolic and other physiological processes; abbreviated PET.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in Journal Nuclear Medicine.
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