Education
University of Paris.
University of Paris.
Positron Emission Tomography could effectively be used to evaluate what areas of the brain were active during various mental processes versus looking at the structure of the brain through conventional Connecticut. Ter-Pogossian was born in Berlin, the only child of Armenian parents who had settled in Germany after escaping the Armenian Genocide during World War I. The family moved to France when Michel was a young child. During World World War II, he fought with the French resistance. He earned degrees in science from the University of Paris and from the Institute of Radium.
In 1946, he emigrated to the United States to attend Washington University of Saint Louis.
He later joined the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine. Positron Emission Tomography scanning is one of the most promising techniques for cancer detection and has applications in monitoring heart disease.The development of new radioligands may allow more uses of positron emission tomography for other areas in medicine.
The technique uses the injection of ultrashort acting radioactive substances commonly bound to water or deoxyglucose. The deoxyglucose method directly measures brain metabolism whereas the radioactively labeled water is effective at measuring brain blood flow.
