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  2. PET-CT - Wikipedia

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    The patient may now leave the device, and the PET-CT software starts reconstructing and aligning the PET and CT images. A whole body scan, which usually is made from mid-thighs to the top of the head, takes from 5 minutes to 40 minutes depending on the acquisition protocol and technology of the equipment used.

  3. Positron emission tomography - Wikipedia

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    Complete body PET-CT fusion image Brain PET-MRI fusion image. PET scans are increasingly read alongside CT or MRI scans, with the combination (co-registration) giving both anatomic and metabolic information (i.e., what the structure is, and what it is doing biochemically). Because PET imaging is most useful in combination with anatomical ...

  4. Full-body CT scan - Wikipedia

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    A full-body scan is a scan of the patient's entire body as part of the diagnosis or treatment of illnesses. If computed tomography ( CAT ) scan technology is used, it is known as a full-body CT scan , though many medical imaging technologies can perform full-body scans.

  5. Nuclear medicine - Wikipedia

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    In addition, there are nuclear medicine studies that allow imaging of the whole body based on certain cellular receptors or functions. Examples are whole body PET scans or PET/CT scans, gallium scans, indium white blood cell scans, MIBG and octreotide scans. Iodine-123 whole body scan for thyroid cancer evaluation.

  6. Emission computed tomography - Wikipedia

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    PET is often conducted by having the person consume a drink that includes radioactive isotopes or by having the isotopes injected into a person's bloodstream. These isotopes are absorbed by different tissues in the body, including malignant tumour cells, and PET imaging can visualize the function or detect tumour cells by visualizing how the ...

  7. Brain positron emission tomography - Wikipedia

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    PET scanning is also used for diagnosis of brain disease, most notably because brain tumors, strokes, and neurondegenerative diseases (such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease) all cause great changes in brain metabolism, which in turn causes detectable changes in PET scans. PET is probably most useful in early cases of certain ...

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