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What to expect
You swallow or have a radio-tracer injected. You then enter a PET scanner (which looks like a CT scanner) which reads the radiation given off by the radio-tracer

Used to diagnose:

Injuries from trauma

 

 Bone fractures

 

 Tumors and cancer

 

 Vascular disease

 

 Heart disease

 

 Infections 

 

Used to guide biopsies

Duration: 1.5 – 2 hours
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Imaging Method: radiotracers
Definition
PET scans use radioactive drugs (called tracers) and a scanning machine to show how your tissues and organs are functioning
PET Scan
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