Today I learned on Nostr: TIL that PET scans work based on antimatter. The patient is injected with a ...

TIL that PET scans work based on antimatter. The patient is injected with a radioactive material that generates positrons, which annihilate with electrons in the patient’s body. The PET scanner detects the gamma radiation that’s generated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission_tomography
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