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PET Scan Available at Mercy Health Center

What is PET?

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images can provide information about many conditions affecting the heart, brain, and other organs, which will help a doctor plan appropriate treatment.

PET images are different that those images from more conventional radiology studies, such as X-ray, CT, Ultrasound, or MRI. These routine radiology procedures show what the tissue look like by making pictures of the different organ structures.

PET images contain information about the body's chemistry, cell function, and exact location of disease. The PET images represent unique information about the physiology of organ systems. PET scans combined with the standard radiology anatomy give a doctor more powerful information that can affect a patient's care. For additional information please call (800) 685-2104.