Pet Scan Study News Today

Aneurysm. youll get a c.a.t. scan for this. this p.e.t. scan study is promising. but im not sure it will change the way we practice. its only about 80 patients in the study. it was accurate in about 90%. we still have a long way to go for p.e.t. scan to come in this field. we use p.e.t. scan in our field for kidney cancers, and 50/50 can guess whether theres a cancer in the body. for bone imaging it would work. >> what does it show that a c.a.t. scan doesnt? >> theyre seeing where the aggregate ...

Combination of the two? >> right. the other things, with brown fat, is what they showed in the studies is that if they put patients -- people in a room that is cold, and let them get cold for a couple of hours and have to put their feet in ice and start to shiver and get cold and when they do a pet scan study which picks up brown fat they find the brown fat is active, much more active than the patients that never experienced that type of coldness and the brown fact uses the fat from the white fa...