This can help them understand how a disease is unfolding. 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 ...

Before being offered breast-conserving surgery to remove the tumor, each patient was given a PET-MRI scan to look for signs of cancer spread in the affected breast, the surrounding area and the ...

Doctors may use a PET scan in combination with a CT scan or MRI scan to confirm a diagnosis for an individual. In a PET scan, a machine detects the radiation that a radiotracer emits. A ...

Some hospitals may also have a PET/MRI scan, which combines the diagnostic properties of a PET scan with the qualities of MRI scans in assessing soft tissues in the organs such as the brain ...

The most common places where metastatic prostate cancer is found include: Your PSMA PET scan will be done alongside a CT scan or an MRI test. These two imaging tests will provide your doctor with ...

compared to 65% with the current PET scan. When combined with CT and MRI, the current PET scan usually detected the tumor, but in 13% of cases, the insulinoma was only visible on the new scan.

They found that doctors correctly identified active disease in 30% of cases without the scan, but in 90% of cases using PET-MRI. For patients in remission, their accuracy was 52% using standard ...