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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 10 Positron emission tomography scanning features and application of Authors: Yang Xing Zhang Yongshun Zhanglinhongjun Jia Feng Tao [Keywords:] PET; radioactive nuclide; metabolic images; image diagnosis Positron emission tomography scans (positron emission tomography, PET), is a kind of high-tech medical imaging tools. Is increasingly being attention and favor. PET works now, diagnostic value, and inspection notes on key features are described below. 1 PET works During PET examination, the subjects first need to intravenous injection of radioactive glucose, which is similar with ordinary glucose, which can be absorbed by human cells. Of radioactive glucose the same as the normal glucose, according to the different metabolism in different parts of the body needs to open to the distribution in the human body, but it can not be completed as normal as normal glucose metabolism in the whole process, but are stranded in the cell [1]. The radioactive nuclides of radioactive glucose is unstable, it seems to put the ball on the pen, as will always fall from a height and return to the most stable state, a process known as radioactive decay (ie, loss of radioactive). 18F labeled with radioactive glucose, for example, about every 110min there will be half of the loss of radioactive glucose, and as time goes by, radioactivity will be reduced gradually. Radionuclides can be emitted positrons quickly with an electronic combination of the human body to form a photon of energy equal to that of the photon in the opposite direction along the inter-injection, was located around the human body PET machine crystal detection The capture device, after computer processing, we can calculate the detection of each position within the region appeared in the end the number of pairs of photons. The distribution of these photons is the situation of the human metabolic map, which clearly shows what areas of the body glucose and how much more or less of the level. The