positron emission tomography scanner
PET scanner

But the future of the PET scanner in medical care is far from assured.

A simple PET scanner, however, is no longer sufficient.

The PET scanner looks like an expensive, oversize, horizontal hair dryer.

The PET scanner also paints a clearer picture of brains damaged by disease.

As we come to understand more fully exactly what we are seeing through the PET scanner, the implications will be tremendous.

Then the PET scanner revealed the electronic activity in the brain.

The PET scanner rotates around the body and makes a picture of where glucose is being used in the brain.

The PET scanner has the ability to delve deeper than ever before into the mysteries of disease.

We are expanding diagnostic and treatment abilities with our new PET scanner.

But despite these good omens, it is far from clear that PET scanners will become a medical fixture any time soon.