Small Animal Imaging Gives Cancer Clues

People in the class may already be familiar with Positron emission tomography (PET) which is used for detecting and following cancer in human patients, but this device could never be used for animals such as mice due to their small size. Researchers have developed a PET scanners sensitive enough to use on mice to study cancerous growth in mice similar to humans. This new PET scanners allows study that could be a model to test treatments to slow or stop the transition of tumors and also look further into how cancers develop.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/08/040810092051.htm