Re: Media again

[Keith Welch <welch@CEBAF.GOV>]

At 01:30 PM 1/24/97 -0600, you wrote:
........... case in point is the Scientific American Frontiers program 
>the other night. They used PET scans to show glucose utilization in 
>the brain without ever saying the dread R-word.......

Hmmmmm, I wonder if there was conscious thought given to the choice of the
acronym 'PET' to make that terrible positron stuff (that's ANTI-MATTER isn't
it?) seem 'friendly', in similar fashion to the removal of the N-word from
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance imaging.

Can you imagine something called "Anti-matter-emision-anihilation-gamma ray
" scanner (this is probably not even close to what a PET scanner does, but
hey it's Friday !!!!!)


Keith Welch
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Newport News VA
welch@cebaf.gov