Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pet_scanner

1 sense of pet scanner

Sense 1
positron emission tomography scanner, PET scanner -- (a tomograph that produces cross-sectional X-rays of metabolic processes in the body)
       => tomograph -- (X-ray machine in which a computer builds a detailed image of a particular plane through an object from multiple X-ray measurements)