A conventional PET scanner FLICKR, JON CALLAS
Researchers plan to give the position emission tomography (PET) scanner a major upgrade. Led by a team at the University of California, Davis, the EXPLORER project aims to build the world’s first full-body PET scanner, with plans to conduct the first human research scans late next year. The new technology could enable researchers to find small cancer deposits that might be missed by other imaging techniques, to examine the pathways of drugs and environmental toxins throughout the body, and to simultaneously study multiple organs for multisystem diseases such as brain-gut conditions and metabolic syndrome, the researchers outlined last week (March 15) in Science Translational Medicine.
PET is an imaging technique that tracks radioactively labelled molecules injected into the human body. While PET has long been ...
