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
• 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
• Several committee members also noted that tau PET scans are complex to interpret and only available at specialized centers.
  — science.org, 3 July 2024
• And, with more tracks investing in advanced diagnostic technology, like PET scans, trainers and veterinarians are now better able to detect hard-to-identify injuries or precursors to injuries.
  — Graham Motion, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2024
• Independent research found that nearly 20% of people enrolled in previous Alzheimer’s clinical trials had a negative amyloid PET scan, suggesting their diagnosis was incorrect.
  — Howard M. Fillit, STAT, 7 July 2023

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024