positron emission tomography

1. 1.

   using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain)

   SynonymsPET

   Broaderimaging

Questions about positron emission tomography

What does positron emission tomography mean?

positron emission tomography means "using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain)".

What is another word for positron emission tomography?

Close synonyms include PET. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is positron emission tomography a common word?

positron emission tomography is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.