Abass Alavi, M.D. is Professor of Radiology and Neurology and is currently the Director of Research Education in the Division of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ...

In 2004 Dr. Alavi was awarded the Georg Charles von Hevesy Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine for his pioneering work in the development of positron emission tomography.[1] He is an internationally renowned expert in the modern imaging sciences and in the clinical applications of PET imaging for the detection of cancer as well as neurological, cardiovascular, and infectious disorders. Image of a typical positron emission tomography (PET) facility Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine medical imaging technique which produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body. ...