Machine go brrrrrrr
Machine go brrrrrrr
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Can someone ELIF this for me?
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Which Enterprise is that?
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Referring to PET I suppose?
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PSA:
PET is a common imaging technique, a medical scintillography technique used in nuclear medicine. A radiopharmaceutical—a radioisotope attached to a drug—is injected into the body as a tracer. When the radiopharmaceutical undergoes beta plus decay, a positron is emitted, and when the positron interacts with an ordinary electron, the two particles annihilate and two gamma rays are emitted in opposite directions.[6] These gamma rays are detected by two gamma cameras to form a three-dimensional image.
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Are there other antimatter imaging methods?
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Pedantically, I think you could call muon tomography an antimatter imaging method. It doesnt explicitly use antimatter as a probe, but you do often measure products of antimatter decay or decay products that are antimatter themselves when doing it (depending on how much fidelity you need on the structure being imaged). I say pedantically because I assume you meant medical imaging methods and muon tomography doesnt have medical applications afaik
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https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2013.00037/full (I didn't read the article, I just remembered that this was under consideration)
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Antimatter remind me of this Fringe scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdoO5tCCOms
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I remember my senior advisor student tellimg me a story how she went to industrial lab internship in a hospital with these things.
They had their own little collider there. They made synthetic radioactive cocaine to study something in the brain.
They didn't measure the drug dosage, they just filled the syringe and waited holding it near a radiation counter for radiation to drop to desired level.
Once she spilled something and dipped her hand in it. She was told to hold a hand away rfom the body for a day - on a train ride home, in shower, in sleep - to protect internal organs. Next day, radiation was gone, down to natural level.
These things are amazing.
"synthetic radioactive cocaine" is a hell of a phrase.
It's pretty rad.
Many drugs are made as radiochemicals to see how they distribute in the body. It's mostly the liver. Some drugs work specifically as radiochemicals to bring ionizing radiation to tumors to kill them.
https://fusionpharma.com/targeted-alpha-therapeutics/
new band name
No cheap ass crack for me. I splurge for the good stuff.
Would also make for a hell of a band name if not for the first two words sounding clunky together 🤔
Nuked coke, illegitimate?
\ Irradiated faux-coke?
\ Nuked Fauxke? 🤷