Whole-body nuclear scanning
- Whole-body nuclear scanning
Whole-body nuclear scanning is a medical imaging technique where the whole body is scanned, contrary to, e.g., neuroimaging where only the brain is scanned.
Whole-body nuclear scanning may refer to several different modalities:
* Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, also known more commonly as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
* But normally it would probably refer to a nuclear medicine tomographic imaging technique such as:
** Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
** Positron emission tomography (PET)
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