PET Scan- Position Emission Tomography
- Created by: rebeccahankinson
- Created on: 06-05-15 16:20
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- PET Scan- Position Emission Tomography
- 1.Scientific and objective why at looking at the human brain
- 2. Non invasive method
- 3. PET scan is a picture of the working brain
- 4. Patients injected with glucose whilst they lie their head in a scanner
- 5. Oxygen in water or glucose begins to decay
- 6. When tracer cells emit positrons, more oxygen and glucose the cells in the brain uses up, the more positrons will be emitted
- 7. They collide with electrons and form gamma rays
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