Pet Scan Prep. A pet scan can show how well certain parts of your body are working, rather than simply showing what they look like. It uses radioactive tracers (called radionuclides) to produce pictures of your heart.
A positron emission tomography (pet) scan is an imaging test that helps reveal how your tissues and organs are functioning. One of the best ways of cancer detection is a positron emission tomography (pet) scan. They may also occasionally be combined with a magnetic resonance imaging (mri) scan.
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A pet scan of the heart is a noninvasive nuclear imaging test. Pet scan is an imaging technique that uses a radioactive tracer to locate tissue differences at a molecular level. An advantage of a pet scan is that it can show how well certain parts of your body are working, rather than showing what it looks like. It's used to help diagnose some conditions including cancer.