Positron Possibility

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Courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory

Scanning for cancer gets more sophisticated all the time. Positron Emissions Tomography is one of the best and most widely used methods to find tumors when they are small enough to cure patients. An old idea is bringing high-energy physicists and radiologists together in hopes of improving image resolution by measuring the speed of tiny nuclear particles.

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