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PET, which stands for Positron Emission Tomography, is a diagnostic imaging exam that involves the acquisition of images from a specialized scanner that detects radiation. Images are captured after injecting radioactive sugar intravenously. Many tumors will preferentially take up the radioactive sugar and will show up as “hot spots”, or areas of uptake, on the PET images.
