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Aneurysm. you'll get a c.a.t. scan for this. this p.e.t. scan study is promising. but i'm not sure it will change the way we practice. it's 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 there's a cancer in the body. for bone imaging it would work. >> what does it show that a c.a.t. scan doesn't? >> they're seeing where the aggregate of the cells, sometimes with this kind of plaque formation you would have inflammation. it det...

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 fat cells to create fuel to warm up the body and like we have good and bad cholesterol, this is the go...