# Nuclide record time-of-flight-pet (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
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@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
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<https://nuclide.cc/terms/time-of-flight-pet/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  nuclide:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "time-of-flight-pet" ;
  schema:name "Time-of-flight (TOF) PET"@en ;
  schema:description "A more precise kind of PET scanner that measures the tiny difference in arrival time between the two flashes of light produced by each radioactive decay, which helps pinpoint where in the body the decay happened and produces clearer, less noisy images, especially in larger patients."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/terms/time-of-flight-pet/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4287223/>, <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4747834/> ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/terms/attenuation-correction/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/partial-volume-effect/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/pet/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/pet-ct/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/nuclear-medicine-hardware/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/total-body-pet-screening/> .