Supersized Scanner To Explore The Body And Hunt Down Disease, University of California, Davis (UCD) Study

When they were kids, Simon Cherry and Ramsey Badawi both wanted to be astronomers, unlocking mysteries in far off galaxies. That didn’t work out for them. The pair still plan on unlocking mysteries but this time inside the human body.

They’ve received a $15.5 million grant to build the world’s first full body PET scanner. Unlike X-Rays and MRI’s that image structure in the body. Positron emission tomography, or PET, images function on a molecular level.

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