How to Use PET scan in a Sentence

PET scan

noun

• But after the spinal tap and a PET scan, the doctors called asking the couple to come in.
  — Joe Sexton, ProPublica, 12 Oct. 2020
• What can PET scans teach us about perimenopause and menopause?
  — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 25 June 2024
• One of the tests was a PET scan designed to determine whether Reinstein has a buildup of amyloid in his brain.
  — Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
• Before she could be discharged, doctors ordered a PET scan to figure out the cause of the brain bleeding.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 14 May 2022
• The researchers confirmed whether or not patients had Alzheimer’s using spinal tap or PET scan.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2024
• Two days later, doctors trying to determine the cause of the bleed ordered a PET scan to check for cancer.
  — Fox News, 27 Mar. 2022
• The tracer, which is injected into the bloodstream, lights up those cells during a PET scan.
  — NBC News, 27 May 2021
• With a PET scan, a healthcare provider injects a radioactive substance into the blood.
  — Christine Coppa, Health, 15 Mar. 2023
• Mica Petersen had gotten a clear PET scan from her doctor.
  — Joy Ashford, Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2023
• The group convened late, after much of the hospital had cleared, to walk through the results of a PET scan that would reveal the reach of her menacing breast cancer.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
• The location of the spike protein in the infected animals was revealed by PET scan.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• About 80% of prostate cancers will take up the dye used in PET scans, fluorodeoxyglucose, and sometimes normal prostate tissue will as well.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 20 June 2023
• Before starting the drug, doctors must confirm a patient has amyloid in the brain, which can be detected by a PET scan or a spinal tap.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
• These tests include either a PET scan or a lumbar puncture, otherwise known as a spinal tap.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 July 2023
• The first is a PET scan, whose average $5,500 price tag isn’t covered by private insurance or Medicare.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 30 July 2020
• The researchers then used PET scans to study their brains, including a tracer that binds to estrogen receptors.
  — Jennifer Chesak, Verywell Health, 17 July 2024
• That can be done with an imaging test called a PET scan, a spinal tap in which a needle is inserted into a patient’s back to withdraw spinal fluid, or a blood test.
  — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 14 July 2023
• Currently, the amyloid PET scan is not widely available.
  — Mariana Lenharo, Health.com, 13 Apr. 2022
• The only way to definitively prove this, however, would be to repeat his amyloid PET scan, Isaacson said.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 18 June 2024
• Then in 2016, researchers developed a way to detect synaptic activity in live human brains during PET scans.
  — WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
• Currently, the disease can be definitively diagnosed only by more expensive and invasive tools such as PET scans and spinal taps.
  — Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2024
• One was a study using positron emission tomography — PET scans — that showed different areas of the brain were associated with each form of memory.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
• In recent months, a large study was published showing that certain PET scans can lead to more accurate diagnoses, while other researchers are looking for disease biomarkers that may be evident in the eye, spinal fluid or the blood.
  — Maya Goldman, Axios, 29 July 2024
• Yet the best ways of diagnosing Alzheimer’s are either expensive (PET scans can cost $3,000) or invasive (cerebrospinal fluid can be obtained only through a lumbar puncture).
  — TIME, 2 May 2024
• In addition to charging for the tracer, hospitals and other memory care centers charge for administering the PET scan.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 22 June 2021
• Thanks to advances in a type of brain imaging technique called a PET scan, scientists are able, in a research setting, to identify what researchers believe is one of Alzheimer’s biological markers: amyloid plaques.
  — Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2018
• Scientists made the unexpected discovery utilizing a PET scan, which is specially designed to reveal sites of infection spreading over time in a whole-body scan.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2022
• On the 26th, doctors ordered a PET scan to check for cancer, but Murphey was claustrophobic and asked for medication to control her anxiety, according to testimony.
  — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2022
• Researchers believe that blood tests eventually will replace the PET scan and spinal tap to diagnose the disease, particularly when time is critical to slowing progression.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 31 July 2024
• Several committee members also noted that tau PET scans are complex to interpret and only available at specialized centers.
  — science.org, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024