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CASE:

Una mujer de 67 años es referida para un estudio de PET/CT, al Centro de PET de la Universidad Médica de Dokkyo, por una masa ubicada entre el estómago y el intestino delgado:

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CASE:

A 67 year-old female was referred to the PET Center of Dokkyo Medical University  for a PET/CT study for a suspicious mass between the stomach and the small intestine:

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It has been said that all started at one point. That after a roar, it was let light to be it and everything began. This could sound like the first verses of many dogmatic books, however, it describes very well how things became after the Big Bang.

It’s incredible how a biped primate in just 6000 years of known-history, could actually manipulate many of this forces that sang in the overture of the universe around 13 billion years ago (13.000.000.000 years or 13Gyr).

Who could even imagine that the shyest and slippery of these dancers, would become the star of a technological innovation: Positron Emission Tomography (PET).

Positrons are tinier particles than the atoms (fundamental particles) that basically, as they are so shy, they avoid being seen within the universe. Therefore, an energetic drum roll is needed to rush them into the scene.

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Dicen que todo comenzó en un punto, que posterior a un grito se hizo la luz y todo existió.

Esto podría sonar a los primeros versos de muchos libros dogmáticos, sin embargo, describe muy bien cómo se produjo todo después del llamado Big Bang o Gran Explosión.

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