Positron-Emission Tomography
"Positron-Emission Tomography" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An imaging technique using compounds labelled with short-lived positron-emitting radionuclides (such as carbon-11, nitrogen-13, oxygen-15 and fluorine-18) to measure cell metabolism. It has been useful in study of soft tissues such as CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; and brain. SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY is closely related to positron emission tomography, but uses isotopes with longer half-lives and resolution is lower.
| Descriptor ID |
D049268
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.350.350.800.700 E01.370.350.600.350.800.399 E01.370.350.710.800.399 E01.370.350.825.800.399 E01.370.384.730.800.399
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| Concept/Terms |
Positron-Emission Tomography- Positron-Emission Tomography
- Positron Emission Tomography
- PET Scan
- PET Scans
- Scan, PET
- Scans, PET
- Tomography, Positron-Emission
- Tomography, Positron Emission
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| 2005 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2006 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2007 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2008 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2009 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2011 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2012 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2013 | 5 | 9 | 14 |
| 2014 | 10 | 7 | 17 |
| 2015 | 5 | 19 | 24 |
| 2016 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11 | 17 |
| 2018 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2019 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 2020 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 2021 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 2022 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 2023 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| 2024 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 2025 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2026 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Omitting Bone Marrow Sampling in FDG-Avid Rhabdomyosarcoma With 2-[18F]FDG PET-Negative Marrow: Results From an International Retrospective Study. J Clin Oncol. 2026 Oct 10; 44(29):2835-2847.
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Generalizable MRI normative modelling to detect age-inappropriate neurodegeneration. Alzheimers Res Ther. 2025 11 12; 17(1):244.
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