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Clinical PET has been a topic of major interest in recent years. The main reason is its unique ability to study physiological and biochemical processes in-vivo, and the association and characterization of disease states with altered blood flow, metabolism and/or receptor status. Initially, PET showed great potential in neurology, and after a shift of attention from neurological and psychiatric applications to cardiology in the eighties, we are now wittnessing an increasing interest in oncology. In the earlier sections, the application of PET in the main 3 clinical areas has been discussed.
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Schiepers, C. (1996). Technical Requirements of a Clinical PET Center: Instrumentation and Personnel. In: Bares, R.B., Lucignani, G. (eds) Clinical PET. Developments in Nuclear Medicine, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0309-8_12
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