How to Use PET scan in a Sentence

PET scan

noun

• The dogs received PET scans on days one, three and seven.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
• But after the spinal tap and a PET scan, the doctors called asking the couple to come in.
  — Joe Sexton, ProPublica, 12 Oct. 2020
• But my PET scan in October 2023 showed that the cancer had gone wild in my body.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 17 Jan. 2025
• 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
• If there are no bright areas on your PET scan image, your test is negative.
  — Susan Russell, Health, 12 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Within 10 days, a PET scan showed an 80 percent reduction in his Stage four tumors.
  — Alexis Kayser, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Your PET scan can return a positive result if there are any clusters of bright spots on your image.
  — Susan Russell, Health, 12 Sep. 2024
• 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
• If a PET scan shows minimal levels of amyloid, treatment is stopped.
  — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 23 Jan. 2025
• Plus, the PET scans allow new monitoring of the therapies.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
• My last PET scan showed that almost all the new areas discovered in October were no longer active.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 17 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Patients were given in-office cognitive and memory tests, a blood test, and were sent for either a spinal tap or a brain imaging test called a PET scan.
  — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2024
• Right now, doctors rely on brain scans called PET scans to find amyloid plaques or do a spinal tap to check for abnormal levels of proteins like beta-amyloid and tau.
  — Allen Chang, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2025
• Insurers struggle to justify and approve budgets for costly testing regimes like a PET scan, which can cost as much as $8,000 per test.
  — Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025