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DES PLAINES, Ill., Aug. 4 -- An estimated 456,200 positron emission tomography (PET) procedures were performed in the US in 2002 -- an increase of 79 percent from 255,300 procedures in 2001, according to a market report by IMV Medical Information Division, a marketing research and consulting firm. The PET procedures were performed in 1080 hospital and non-hospital sites, using fixed PET scanners, including dedicated PET or PET/computed tomography (CT) scanners, mobile PET scanners or nuclear medicine cameras with coincidence detection. Oncology procedures comprise 92 percent of PET...Read full article

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    Published: August 2003
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    positron emission tomography
    A medical imaging device that uses a ring of crystal/photomultiplier tube assemblies encircling the patient to detect gamma rays emitted by positrons colliding with electrons.
    BiophotonicsIMV Medical Information DivisionNews & FeaturesPETpositron emission tomography

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