Once these radioactive tracers are injected into the bloodstream, the efficiency and location of chemical processes can be observed using PET.

Using PET, the amygdala was shown to be responsible for enhanced episodic memory in the recognition of emotional stimuli.

Studies using PET have come to the same conclusions regarding the use of the parahippocampal gyrus for prospective memory.

Whistler Water's plastic bottles are all made using recyclable PET and they are oxo-biodegradable.

The activation of this area is studied using PET as well as magnetoencephalography (MEG).

In the 1990s, psychologists began using PET and later fMRI to image the brain in attentive tasks.

In a pilot study, physicians use PET to predict the success of coronary bypass operations.

The company uses PET in carpets.

Researchers have also used PET in preparing for brain surgery, screening for Alzheimer's disease and spotting tumors that other scanning methods miss.

Brain activation studies using PET to study language have produced a breakthrough in understanding of the neural basis of language over the past decade.