4/ In the UCSF project, the EXPLORER PET scanner used in this study is the first FDA-approved full-body PET scanner & was created by two members of the project team. It has 40x the sensitivity of commercial scanners,
5/ allowing for extremely high resolution images of spike protein in tissue to be produced. If the project team can successfully image SARS-CoV-2 reservoirs in patients with long COVID, they can potentially radiolabel therapeutics that target other pathogens implicated in chronic disease.
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