Positron emission tomography in the study of cerebral tumours.
Positron emission tomography (PET) uses the shortlived positron-emitting radioisotopes of elements such as oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon as tracers both to image and to measure, non-invasively, normal regional tissue physiology and pathophysiology in man. This technique has been used to study the pathophysiology of brain tumours at the time they present and after therapeutic intervention.
D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001812:Blood-Brain Barrier; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D005910:Glioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D010296:Parietal Lobe; D012413:Rubidium; D013702:Temporal Lobe; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
D005947:Glucose; D012413:Rubidium