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The 44 pages that link to Positron emission tomography, each with the reason it gives.

• Medical imagingBroader topic: Tracer uptake displays metabolic activity rather than anatomy alone.

• Particle physicsBroader topic: It uses antimatter production and detection principles in diagnostic imaging.

• PositronBroader topic: PET turns positron annihilation inside the body into images of tracer activity.

• Nuclear medicineBroader topic: PET maps radiotracer distribution using coincident detection of annihilation photons.

• RadiopharmaceuticalBroader topic: PET uses positron-emitting radiopharmaceuticals to map physiological and molecular activity.

• Image reconstructionBroader topic: Its images are estimated from noisy, indirect coincidence measurements.

• Scintillation detectorBroader topic: PET scanners commonly use scintillator crystals to detect the annihilation photons.

• Electron–positron annihilationBroader topic: It reconstructs tracer locations from pairs of photons produced after positron emission.

• RadionuclideBroader topic: It maps the distribution of positron-emitting radionuclides in the body.

• RadiotracerBroader topic: It uses radiotracers to map physiological activity inside the body.

• Nuclear chemistryBroader topic: It turns a nuclear decay process into images of biological activity.