Following the tracer injection, technicians scan the heart again to assess its activity. Within the PET scanner, detectors capture the radioactive patterns the tracer emits within the heart.

Radioactive scans for neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) Radioactive scans help your doctors diagnose some types of neuroendocrine tumour (NET). You have an injection of a radioactive tracer, which can ...

After the exercise, you will receive another radioactive tracer injection and wait for another 15 to 40 minutes for your heart to absorb the radioactive tracer. Post-exercise scan.

The radioactive material from the tracer will pass out of your body in a few hours to a few days, ... An injection of contrast liquid may be given to show the tumors as a different, ...

You could get a minor bruise in the area where you get your injection. If the radioactive tracer leaks outside of your vein, the area could swell up and hurt. But this is rare and will heal quickly.

A radioactive form of fructose, ... PET scans from 20 to 45 minutes after injection showed that the tracer accumulated in the tumor and less so in healthy tissues, ...

A protein found in the saliva of Gila monsters (one shown) can bind to certain cells in the pancreas, making it a potentially useful tracer for scans for a rare, benign type of pancreatic tumor.

The doughnut contains cameras that detect and record emissions from the radioactive tracers. Multiple images are produced in slices, which are then compiled into a 3D picture of the body.