Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Positron Emission Tomography

Positron Emission Tomography

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Original - A whole body projection of a PET acquisition for tumor diagnosis. Besides normal accumulation of the tracer in the heart, bladder, kidneys and brain, liver metastases of a colorectal tumor are visible within the abdominal region.

Reason

Good EV. Though the quality appears fuzzy, this is what PETs look like.

Articles in which this image appears

Positron emission tomography, Scientific visualization, Fludeoxyglucose (18F), Full-body CT scan

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Biology

Creator

Damato

• Support as nominator --Nergaal (talk) 20:28, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
• Support, taking it on faith that this is of typical image quality for the genre, as you said. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 20:53, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

• Looking around I could find this as an example of recent PET - it seems to have a similar resolution quality. Nergaal (talk) 21:20, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

• PET resolution on human-sized samples is typically 0.5-1.0 cm, this image is definately representative of the resolution you would expect to see. - Zephyris _Talk 10:35, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

• Support Very interesting. Wackywace ^{converse | contribs} 12:41, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
• Support Very detailed --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 00:56, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
• Support - oooh, colorful. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:59, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
• Support Pile on. Per above. Greg L (talk) 23:42, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Promoted File:PET-MIPS-anim.gif --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:54, 20 October 2010 (UTC)