Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (Cinvestav)

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Engineering

A Basic Positron Emission Tomography System Constructed to Locate a Radioactive Source in a Bi-dimensional Space

Luis Manuel Montaño-Zetina¹, Omar Villalobos-Mora¹

¹Physics Department, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (Cinvestav)

We present a simple but well-constructed Positron Emission Tomography (PET) system and elucidate its basic working principles. The goal of this protocol is to guide the user in constructing and testing a simple PET system.