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PET/CT Scanning

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October 25, 2023
  • A nuclear medicine procedure, PET scanning produces images of particular biological functions and can detect small cancers. The patient is given a sugar solution “tagged” with a radiotracer used by cancer and certain other diseases and “lights up” for localized identification of disease. The PET tracer is harmless and is eliminated from a person’s system usually within 12 hours.
  • The PET/CT fusion combines the cellular imaging capability of the PET scan with the structural imaging ability of the CT scan, providing the highest degree of accuracy available in cancer imaging.