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PET Imaging: The Real Positronic Brain?

June 22, 2017June 20, 2022 Joel Frohlich antimatter, brain imaging, CERN, EEG, fMRI, glucose, I Robot, Isaac Asimov, MEG, Neuroimaging, PET, radioactive, radiotracer, Tom Wolfe

In Isaac Asimov’s 1950 short story collection I, Robot, intelligent robots with positronic brains exist alongside humans. Unlike conventional computer hardware, the word positronic implies that electrical current is carried… Read more

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