PET scan

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abbr. 檢驗胴體尤其是腦部新陳代謝的斷層掃描（Positron Emission Tomography Scan）；正電子發(fā)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(shù)分鐘后，經(jīng)PET掃描的數(shù)據(jù)顯示，緊貼通話中手機一側(cè)的大腦區(qū)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(yīng)用現(xiàn)代的成像技術(shù)來進行研究,比如電腦斷層掃描,正電子發(fā)射斷層掃描技術(shù),以及功能性核磁共振成像,正如我之前所說,這些技術(shù)可以讓你看到大腦的活動區(qū)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