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PET in Oncology

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Not long after P.A.M. Dirac predicted the existence of positrons in 1927, C. Anderson was able to prove they existed (1932). Soon people began to think about medical applications for positrons, since it was recognized that they had special properties for diagnostics.

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    H.-J. Biersack

  3. Clinic and Policlinic for Nuclear Medicine, Rheinisch-Westfälische University Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Straße 25, 53127, Bonn, Germany

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Newiger, H., Hämisch, Y., Oehr, P., Ruhlmann, J., Vollet, B., Ziegler, S. (1999). Physical Principles. In: Ruhlmann, J., Oehr, P., Biersack, HJ. (eds) PET in Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60010-4_1

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