All You Should Know About PET Diagnosis
May people today are suffering from different type of life threatening diseases. They need appropriate diagnosis programs and that will rightly meet the needs of the patients. PET diagnosis is one of them that offer quality result instantly and let you know whether you are suffering from any type of medial issues or not. Pre-preparation of the PET scan Prior to a PET scan, the patient receives an injection of a substance that contains a type of sugar attached to a radioactive isotope. The cancer cells “take up” the sugar and attached isotope, which emits positively charged, low energy radiation (positrons). The positrons react with electrons in the cancer cells, which create the production of gamma rays. The gamma rays are then detected by the PET machine, which transforms the information into a picture. If no gamma rays are detected in the scanned area, it is unlikely that the mass in question contains living cancer cells. How the PET scan performed? Before a PET scan the radio...