Thirteen years ago, UC Davis scientists Simon Cherry and Ramsey Badawi had an idea for a machine that could scan the entire human body at once, producing a 3D image that could help medical specialists ...

The Mini EXPLORER II installed at UC Davis. The multi-institutional EXPLORER Consortium is building the world’s first total-body PET scanner. The device, which has a sensitivity around 40 times higher ...

To better diagnose and treat all sorts of medical conditions, researchers and physicians are continually working on new tests and technology. One such new technology is a total-body scanner called ...

Positron Emission Tomography, or PET scanning, a technique for tracing metabolic processes in the body, has been widely applied in clinical diagnosis and research spanning physiology, biochemistry and ...