positron emission tomography

English

Alternative forms

• PET

Noun

positron emission tomography (countable and uncountable, plural positron emission tomographies)

1. (medicine) A medical imaging technique which detects the gamma rays produced by positrons emitted from injected radionuclides.

Translations

a medical imaging technique

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 正電子發射計算機斷層掃描／正电子发射计算机断层扫描 (zhèngdiànzǐ fāshè jìsuànjī duàncéng sǎomiáo)

• Czech: pozitronová emisní tomografie f
• Finnish: positroniemissiotomografia (fi)
• French: tomographie par émission de positons f, TEP (fr) f
• Greek: τομογραφία εκπομπής ποζιτρονίων (el) f (tomografía ekpompís pozitroníon)
• Hungarian: pozitronemissziós tomográfia
• Irish: tomagrafaíocht astúchán posatrón f
• Norwegian: positronemisjonstomografi