to obtain a scan using this technique, a patient is injected with (or ingests) a low and harmless dose of a short-lived radioact

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to obtain a scan using this technique, a patient is injected with (or ingests) a low and harmless dose of a short-lived radioact

ive glucose.

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katen-ka-za [31] · Answer 1 · 2023-07-27T18:53:34+03:00

To obtain a scan using the positron emission tomography technique, a patient is injected with (or ingests) a low and harmless dose of a short-lived radioactive glucose.

<h3>What is Positron emission tomography?</h3>

This refers to a type of imaging technique which employs the use of radioactive substances in other to measure the metabolic activity of the cells of body tissues.

A scan using this technique is obtained by injecting the patient with a low and harmless dose of a short-lived radioactive glucose so that a picture of where the glucose being used in the body is visible and helps to detect cancerous cells etc.

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