Sensing Techniques-PET

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Because 180 degrees apart, can isolate a slice of the brain

Detectors detect arriving gamma rays, and because of the timeing involved they can figure out where the original decay was

Radioactive materials carried by glucose- used by brain when it it working

More glucose = more brain activity

An indirect measure of brain functioning- but studies brain functioning none-the-less