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What is a PET scan?
Medically reviewed by Doru Paul, MD Key Takeaways A PET scan shows changes in your body's cells to detect diseases.Prepare ...
A PET scan uses radioactive sugar as a tracer, so you’ll need to switch to a low carb, no-sugar diet 24 hours before the scan. This means avoiding bread, pasta, cereal, milk, and starchy vegetables, ...
Karin Rexroad peeks through the bore of the PET-CT scanner at LMH Health. Positron emission tomography, or PET, scans have long been used to diagnose cancer and determine how far it has progressed.
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