Question:
What major piece of medical imaging equipment was first built at the School of Medicine?
A) MRI scanner
B) X-ray machine
C) CT scanner
D) PET scanner
Answer:
D) PET scanner. In the 1970s, a team led by Michel Ter-Pogossian at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology developed the concept of positron emission tomography, or PET, and played a major role in designing and constructing the first PET scanner. A PET scanner creates images of organs and tissues at work.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Terrence Tsou, a student in Arts & Sciences, who will receive an ‘I Knew WashU’ luggage tag!