PET-Cardiac Perfusion
- distinguish benign from malignant tumors
- stage cancer by showing metastases anywhere in your body
- prove whether or not treatment therapies are working
- positively diagnose Alzheimer's disease for early intervention
- locate tumors in the brain and distinguish tumor from scar tissue
- locate the focus of seizures for some patients with epilepsy
- more accurately assess tumor and other sites in the brain for delicate surgery
- quantify the extent of heart disease determine, after a heart attack, if the heart muscle would benefit from surgery
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Discover the power of Positron Emission Tomography (PET). When your doctor refers you for a PET scan, you will be introduced to a medical imaging technique that can search for cancer anywhere in your body, can diagnose Alzheimer's disease years before symptoms occur or prove that bypass surgery would benefit your damaged heart. PET can tell you whether a tumor is benign or malignant and can show you if a malignant tumor has spread.
PET is a powerful diagnostic test that is having a major impact on the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Because disease is a biological process, and PET is a biological imaging examination, PET can detect and stage most cancers, often before they are evident through other tests. PET can also give physicians important early information about heart disease and many neurological disorders, like Alzheimer's.
A PET scan examines your body's chemistry. Most common medical tests, like CT and MR scans, only show details about the structure of your body. PET is different. It also provides information about function. With a single PET procedure, physicians can collect images of function throughout the entire body, uncovering abnormalities that might otherwise go undetected.
For example, a PET scan is the most accurate, non-invasive way to tell whether or not a tumor is benign or malignant, sparing patient’s expensive, often painful diagnostic surgeries and suggesting treatment options earlier in the course of the disease. And although cancer spreads silently in the body, PET can inspect all organs of the body for cancer in a single examination!
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