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Published: 20 Sep 2017

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Dr Stephen Paisey - Pre-Clinical Facilities Manager, PETIC, Cardiff, Wales

Dr Paisey talks to ecancer at the PETIC centre in Wales about the radioactive isotopes used in PET imaging and the PET tracers. He discusses the difficulty in creating new tracers to target new disease types and the multitude of chemistry work that goes into developing these new tracers.

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