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PET stands for positron emission tomography. A PET scan uses a mildly radioactive liquid called a radioactive tracer. It shows areas of your body where cells are more active than normal. It's used to ...

Both PET scans use a radioactive tracer to visualize specific body areas. Before the scan, a person is required to ingest, inhale, or receive an injection of a dye containing radioactive tracers ...

EXPLORER total body PET scanner is creating a new way to visualize the protective barrier to the brain to reveal impacts from ...

PET uses radioactive tracers to image the body, and researchers had to use two tracers—one to detect a specific molecular target and the other to measure blood flow. Unfortunately, blood-flow ...

In a comprehensive Genomic Press perspective article published today, researchers from Fudan University and Shanghai ...

Does a patient need to restrict his or her activities after a PET/CT scan? No. Although the scan involves injection of a radioactive substance, which will lead to radiation exposure of persons in ...

A new way of mapping PD-L1 levels The research team developed a radiotracer—a radioactive molecule ... patients were given the tracer intravenously, followed by PET scans after 48 and 72 hours.

A bone scan looks for changes in your bones. Before the test you have a radioactive tracer injection into your bloodstream. You have this through a tube (cannula) into a vein in your hand. It takes 2 ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Dr George Owiti, a radiographer at Kericho County Hospital examines the Chest CT results ...