A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is an imaging test that uses a small amount of radioactive tracer to measure the rate of glucose (sugar) that the cells in your lung use.

For more accurate scans, they had to truck a horse to a facility with a PET scan machine. They said the track's new piece of technology will allow doctors to examine more horses and to do so with ...

NEW YORK Now, a new study says PET scans are one of the most effective tools in finding and imaging cancer. It's only been in the last 3 to 6 years that PET scan machines arrived at the big ...

PESHAWAR: The lack of Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET-CT) machine in public sector hospitals has badly affected cancer patients as they have to travel to other cities amid ...

The tools – machines that perform DaTscans and PET scans – are not new but some of the applications and upgrades over the past year for the technology are new.

No. Although a small amount of radioactive glucose is injected for the PET examination, this will not affect the diabetes. It is important, however, that the PET imaging team is aware of the patient’s ...

Positron emission tomography (PET) or computed tomography (CT) scan is done as a procedure to find out malignant growth or to evaluate the effect of treatment on an already diagnosed malignant ...

PET imaging scans are used to trace or check signs of cancer, heart disease, and brain disorders. The Dokolo district woman MP succumbed to cancer in India. She was 77.