A PET scan is different from an X-ray, CT, or MRI, which only show images of the body. When you get a PET scan, your doctor will give you a radioactive substance called a radiotracer (or just ...

Undergoing a PET/CT procedure involves the injection of a small amount of a radioactive substance in the body. Usually ... the patient is taken to the scan room for the procedure.

Doctors sometimes perform a combined PET/CT scan to create a 3D picture of the organs and body structures while collecting data about the active tissues or cells. Some hospitals may also have a ...

Doctors might combine PET scans with a CT scan to get a more detailed ... which they use to create images of inside a person’s body. When preparing for a PET scan, a person may have to stop ...

As with uterine sarcoma, endometrial carcinoma (EC) usually affects the upper part (or body) of the uterus ... and the FDG-PET imaging results were compared with CT and/or MRI and the results ...

If he’d pursued his first love, Simon Cherry might be unraveling the mysteries of the universe through astronomy instead of ...

The test can spot signs that the disease has metastasized, meaning it has spread beyond the prostate to other parts of the body ... Your PSMA PET scan will be done alongside a CT scan or an ...

This study is using a PET-CT scan after selective internal radiation therapy to find out where in the body the treatment has gone. It is open to people who have cancer that started in the liver or ...

Frankie Maldonado, the Director of Operations for Life Guard Imaging joins Gayle Guyardo, the host of Bloom, to share more about the difference between their CT scan and a ...