PET scan

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abbr. 检验胴体尤其是脑部新陈代谢的断层扫描（Positron Emission Tomography Scan）；正电子发射层析扫描（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扫描。看到的是令人不安的东西，我啥也没说，”他说。
They use a radioactive dye that attaches to plaque in the brain, allowing it to be seen with a PET scan.
他们运用一种放射性染料粘附上大脑中的空斑，使它能够被PET扫描看到。
A few minutes after the call, a PET scan revealed that brain regions next to the working phone had higher levels of glucose metabolism.
通话数分钟后，经PET扫描的数据显示，紧贴通话中手机一侧的大脑区域葡萄糖代谢水平增高。

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.
通常是应用现代的成像技术来进行研究,比如电脑断层扫描,正电子发射断层扫描技术,以及功能性核磁共振成像,正如我之前所说,这些技术可以让你看到大脑的活动区域
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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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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