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• whole-body — adj. Whole body is used with these nouns: ↑scan …   Collocations dictionary

• Full-body scan — Full body scan, also known as a full body CT scan, involves a CT scan of the patient s entire body to support the diagnosis and treatment of specific illnesses. History and overviewCT scans were first used in medicine in the 1970s,cite journal |… …   Wikipedia

• scan — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 examination by a machine ADJECTIVE ▪ body, whole body ▪ bone, brain, iris, retina, retinal ▪ CAT …   Collocations dictionary

• scan — 1 verb scanned, scanning 1 (T) to examine an area carefully, because you are looking for a particular person or thing: He scanned the horizon ahead, but there was no sign of the convoy. (+ for): The police scanned the whole area but found no… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Full body scanner — Backscatter x ray image of TSA Security Laboratory Director Susan Hallowell. A full body scanner is a device that creates an image of a person s nude body through their clothing to look for hidden objects without physically removing their clothes …   Wikipedia

• Octreotide scan — Diagnostics 111In pentetreotide scintigraphy of the 41 year old man with ectopic Cushing syndrome caused by a neuroendocrine carcinoma of the mesentery. Radiotracer accumulation in the left thyroid in 10/2003 (arrow). The mesenterial… …   Wikipedia

• PET-Scan — Die Positronen Emissions Tomographie (von altgr. τομή, tome, „Schnitt“ und γράφειν, graphein, „schreiben“), Abkürzung PET, ist ein bildgebendes Verfahren der Nuklearmedizin, das Schnittbilder von lebenden Organismen erzeugt, indem es die… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Nuclear medicine — Intervention ICD 10 PCS C ICD 9: 92 …   Wikipedia

• PET-CT — Positron emission tomography computed tomography (better know by its acronym PET CT) is a medical imaging device which combines in a single gantry system both a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and an x ray Computed Tomography, so that images… …   Wikipedia

• Technetium tc-99m albumin aggregated — Technetium 99mTc albumin aggregated (99mTc MAA) is an injectable radiopharmaceutical used in nuclear medicine. It consists of a sterile aqueous suspension of Technetium 99m (99mTc) labeled to human albumin aggregate particles in the pH range of 3 …   Wikipedia