What Is a PET Scan? A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is a type of imaging study that can help doctors see what’s happening inside your body and how it’s working.

A heart PET scan is an imaging tool, offering information on blood flow and heart health. Learn more about how this scan helps with diagnosing heart conditions.

PET scan is an imaging technique that uses a radioactive tracer to locate tissue differences at a molecular level. A lung PET scan is used to take images of the lungs and detect whether lung ...

Preparation for a PET scan usually takes 24 hours but there are some details you need to sort out with your medical team at the time of scheduling.

Learn about the role of PET scans in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. This article looks at diagnosis, staging, how PET scans work, and more.

A new machine at Nemours/Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children allows PET and MRI scans to be combined into a single image that enables surgeons to precisely remove parts of children’s brains to ...

Patients with aortic inflammation detected by PET were at greater risk for developing aortic aneurysms, particularly thoracic aortic aneurysms.

New high-tech scan helps former SoCal firefighter extinguish prostate cancer in its earliest stages Compared to other techniques, the new imaging method called PSMA PET scan can detect cancer in ...

Medicare paid for only one amyloid-PET scan over a patient’s’ lifetime, reflecting uncertainty about its value. Now it pays for more, but are the tests reliable?

PET scans require dietary preparation, sometimes up to 24 hours before your test, so it's important that you know what foods to eat before a PET scan.