Positron emission tomography, or PET scanning, a technique for tracing metabolic processes in the body, has been widely applied in clinical diagnosis and research spanning physiology, biochemistry and ...

Innovators of the Year: Ramsey Badawi, left, and Simon Cherry, honored for their work on the EXPLORER whole-body PET Scanner. (UC Davis) The University of California, Davis, today (June 15) named the ...

EXPLORER, the world's first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3-D picture of the whole human body at once, has produced its first scans. The brainchild of UC Davis scientists Simon Cherry and ...

The first patient scans from a custom-built scanner combining positron emission tomography and computed tomography technologies indicate that these scans could significantly improve breast cancer ...

A University of California, Davis, research team has been awarded $15.5 million to build the world’s first total-body positron emission tomography scanner, which could fundamentally change the way ...

The Mini EXPLORER II installed at UC Davis. The multi-institutional EXPLORER Consortium is building the world’s first total-body PET scanner. The device, which has a sensitivity around 40 times higher ...

An EXPLORER image showing glucose metabolism throughout the entire human body. (Courtesy: UC Davis and Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai) The EXPLORER PET/CT scanner is the world’s first medical imaging ...

To better diagnose and treat all sorts of medical conditions, researchers and physicians are continually working on new tests and technology. One such new technology is a total-body scanner called ...

Positron Emission Tomography, or PET scanning, a technique for tracing metabolic processes in the body, has been widely applied in clinical diagnosis and research spanning physiology, biochemistry, ...

EXPLORER, the world's first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3D picture of the whole human body at once, has produced its first scans. EXPLORER, the world's first medical imaging scanner ...

Positron Emission Tomography, or PET scanning, a technique for tracing metabolic processes in the body, has been widely applied in clinical diagnosis and research spanning physiology, biochemistry and ...