The anti-particle of a negatively charged electron, for example, has a positive charge and is called a positron. From Wordnik.com. [I’m Working on That] Reference
The positron is slowed down by the water and destroyed together with an electron (matter meets antimatter), whereupon two photons (light particles) are created. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics] Reference
A positron is the anti-matter equivalent of an electron. From Wordnik.com. [Island Packet: Home] Reference
The new technique will use an imaging method called positron emission tomography. From Wordnik.com. [PharmaTimes World News] Reference
In the study, scientists used a brain-scanning technique called positron emission tomography. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
A positron is the antimatter equivalent of an electron, and perhaps the easiest anti-particle to manufacture and store. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Brain scans called positron emission tomography have uncovered differences in functioning in some areas of patients 'brains. From Wordnik.com. [PsycPORT.com] Reference
One evening in 2003, after yet another test, a type of brain scan called a positron emission tomography, Mr. Kammerer's physician called. From Wordnik.com. [When Alzheimer's Hits at 40] Reference
Alzheimer's-specific protein deposits in the brain, causing them to light up under an imaging technology called positron emission tomography (PET). From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Healthy Diet Could Slow Or Reverse Early Effects Of Alzheimer's Disease] Reference
In another series of tests, Savic and Lindström used a technique called positron emission tomography PET to look at brain wiring in a smaller group of volunteers. From Wordnik.com. [BiGender and the Brain] Reference
Nuclear medicine refers to imaging and procedures, such as positron emission tomography. From Wordnik.com. [Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal] Reference
Scanning techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) have demonstrated that he was right. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
Now we have a PET scan, positron emission tomography. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2005] Reference
Like proton and anti-proton, or electron and positron. From Wordnik.com. [Angelmass]
Here is the relevant positron plot, from paper 2 above. From Wordnik.com. [Looking for Dark Matter in All the Wrong Places] Reference
Observation of an anomalous positron abundance in the cosmic radiation. From Wordnik.com. [Looking for Dark Matter in All the Wrong Places] Reference
This includes the formation of an electron and its antiparticle, a positron. From Wordnik.com. [Glast Blasts off to investigate Dark-Mysteries] Reference
The positron revealed a hidden half of the universe: the world of antimatter. From Wordnik.com. [Particles Tell Stories] Reference
He predicted something completely outrageous (positron), and was vindicated not that long thereafter. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Physics Paper!] Reference
There was the observation last month by the PAMELA satellite of an anomalous positron excess at ~50 GeV. From Wordnik.com. [Something’s in the air] Reference
A positron-emitting radionuclide is introduced, usually by injection, and accumulates in the target tissue. From Wordnik.com. [Radioisotopes in medicine] Reference
The nucleus of a radioisotope usually becomes stable by emitting an alpha and/or beta particle (or positron). From Wordnik.com. [Radioisotopes in medicine] Reference
For example, if I collide an electron and a positron together, the two can annihilate to form a pair of photons. From Wordnik.com. [Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask] Reference
While making their decisions, the participants 'brains were being scanned by positron emission tomography (PET). From Wordnik.com. [Dan Ariely: The Upside of Irrationality and Revenge] Reference
It is responsable for an abnormality of the brain that can be localised using PET (positron emission tomography). From Wordnik.com. [Pain Management and Relief with the Neuro-linguistic Programming Method] Reference
Several studies using positron emission tomography (PET) have looked at what goes on in the brain during hypnosis. From Wordnik.com. [ALTERED STATES] Reference
This process also helps in production of a positron and an electron from a gamma ray photon in a strong electric field. From Wordnik.com. [Glast Blasts off to investigate Dark-Mysteries] Reference
KamLAND is designed to detect these anti-neutrinos as they convert protons in the detector into a neutron and a positron. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
The antiparticle corresponding to an electron is a positron, which has the same mass as an electron but a positive charge. From Wordnik.com. [antiparticle] Reference
The antiparticle of the electron is a positron, which has the identical mass to an electron, but precisely the opposite charge. From Wordnik.com. [Matter v Antimatter I: The Baryon Asymmetry] Reference
When the positron, the brother of the electron, was first detected, the discovery was not just the identification of a particle. From Wordnik.com. [Particles Tell Stories] Reference
I truly believe we will need high energy electron-positron data to fully understand the physics that awaits us at the TeV scale. From Wordnik.com. [Designing the Next Big Machine] Reference
Minkowskian geometry but also linked the electron to the not-then-detected positron, thus initiating the con - cept of antimatter. From Wordnik.com. [RELATIVITY] Reference
FEIG: CAT scans and MRIs see masses, but only PET scans, positron emission tomography, can tell you if the mass is actually cancer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: PET Scans Become Increasingly Available - December 16, 2000] Reference
Nature Wednesday that they could have detected "Kaluza-Klein" electron-positron pairs resulting from the annihilation of these WIMPS. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
The purpose of these elaborate works, carried out above the poles of pulsars as they gushed electron-positron plasmas, remained unknown. From Wordnik.com. [Tides Of Light]
So pair production actually involves 4 particles, the positive energy electron and positron and the negative energy electron and positron. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Matter: Still Dark.] Reference
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