Sentences with phrase «after a pet scan»

After the PET scans were complete, the researchers calculated how much glucose was being consumed by the most active hemisphere of the patients» brains relative to the healthy controls.

After a PET scan, most patients are told to avoid contact with babies and anyone up through the age of 18.

Not exact matches

I had my PET scan done on December the 5th, and my oncologist told me to wait 24 hours after that before we try to nurse again, so we started on a Saturday, which was December the 6th.

Researchers used positron emission tomography (PET) scans and neuropsychological tests to assess brain function and activity in the participants prior to surgery and six months after the procedure.

X-rays and MRI, PET and CT scans are, after all, masses of data.

The PET radiotracer C - 11 PBR28 was administered to eight healthy men around the age of 25, give or take six years, followed by two separate PET scans on the same day for each subject before and after injection with LPS.

After administering PET scans to 4000 people previously diagnosed with either mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia and treated for Alzheimer's to test for the presence of amyloid plaque, only 53.3 % of patients with MCI and 70.5 % with dementia tested positive.

Using PET scans, the researchers also looked at how brain activity changed after one year of stimulation.

To understand the possible link between beta - amyloid accumulation and sleep, the researchers used positron emission tomography (PET) to scan the brains of 20 healthy subjects, ranging in age from 22 to 72, after a night of rested sleep and after sleep deprivation (being awake for about 31 hours).

Cornelius Weiller and his colleagues at the University of Essen reached this conclusion after using positron emission tomography (PET) brain scans to watch migraines in action.

After the pain had gone, the patients had a second PET scan.

Radioactivity in the brain was then measured using positron emission tomography (PET) scans under three different circumstances: after eating pizza (a palatable meal) after consuming a nutritional drink (a non-palatable meal), and after an overnight fast.

After Sophie became paralyzed I found myself scanning the news for stories about pets with special needs.

Your radiation oncologist will review the options in more depth, after reviewing the MRI or CT scan, and your pet's overall condition to determine the safest and most effective treatment.

If you and your dog go for a hike in the woods, or if you cuddle up with your pets after they've been outside in an area where ticks are prevalent, do a quick scan to make sure no ticks have crawled onto you.

After realizing there were very few bar codes on pet products, we bought software that allowed us to print our own labels and bar codes, so we could scan what we were selling.

If your pet goes missing, the microchip can be scanned to identify their owner so your pet can be returned to you after scanning at a shelter.