PET scan

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abbr. 檢騐胴躰尤其是腦部新陳代謝的斷層掃描（Positron Emission Tomography Scan）；正電子發射層析掃描（pet scanning）

"And I took a look at my own PET scan and saw something disturbing that I did not talk about, " he says.
“我看了看我自己的PET掃描。看到的是令人不安的東西，我啥也沒說，”他說。
They use a radioactive dye that attaches to plaque in the brain, allowing it to be seen with a PET scan.
他們運用一種放射性染料粘附上大腦中的空斑，使它能夠被PET掃描看到。
A few minutes after the call, a PET scan revealed that brain regions next to the working phone had higher levels of glucose metabolism.
通話數分鍾後，經PET掃描的數據顯示，緊貼通話中手機一側的大腦區域葡萄糖代謝水平增高。

Typically, these are recent imaging methods like CAT scan and PET scan and fMRI which, as I said before, show parts of your brain at work.
通常是應用現代的成像技術來進行研究,比如電腦斷層掃描,正電子發射斷層掃描技術,以及功能性核磁共振成像,正如我之前所說,這些技術可以讓你看到大腦的活動區域
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It might be more like the PET scan and MRI business, with select hospitals buying huge, expensive machines.
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Occasionally, a PET scan is tossed into the mix.
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abbreviation for positron emission tomography scan: a medical test that can produce an image of the brain or of another part of a person's body