Summary: BRAIN awardee Dr. Julie Brefczynski-Lewis and co-workers engineered a wearable positron emission tomography (PET) scanner that is both portable and able to image activity of the human brain in motion.
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The device is currently being tested on healthy volunteers, but could be used clinically within two years, the team predicts. Photograph: Bob Beverly