Michael E. Phelps

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Michael E. Phelps (b. 1939 Cleveland, Ohio) is a professor and an American biophysicist. He is known for being one of the fathers of positron emission tomography (PET)[1]. Phelps earned his B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics from Western Washington University in 1965, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1970. He joined the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine in 1970. From 1975-1976, Phelps was a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1976, he moved to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA where he is currently Chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine.

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  1. ^ Phelps, M.E. (1975). "Application of annihilation coincidence detection to transaxial reconstruction tomography". Journal of Nuclear Medicine 16(3):210-24. PMID 1113170. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

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