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All You Need to Know About Your PET/CT Scan I did my PET Scan Tuesday, March 26th 2007, 我在2007年3月26日星期二做了PET检查。 Let me take you through the whole procedure and let me put to rest any thoughts you might have that it might be harmful, unsafe, nerve-wracking or unpleasant. It will be none of these. 让我给你讲讲我的整个经历，我猜你可能认为做PET检查会是有害的，不安全的，伤脑筋的或者不舒服的。事实并非如此。 The reason I had a PET Scan or to give it its full name a CT-PET Scan was to try to identify why my brain functions were not performing correctly. 我进行PET检查（其实全称是PET-CT检查）的原因是想确定为什么我的脑功能会出现问题。 Most times a PET Scan is used to identify and monitor the progress of various cancers. The procedure is costly and you can explore HYPERLINK /petscancost.htm why a PETscan is costly. There are not many PET-CT scanners around. One of the reasons for this is that the radioactive sugar called HYPERLINK /fdg.htm FDG used in the scanning procedure does not travel long distances. 通常PET检查是用来确定和检测各种癌症的进程。这项检查价格不菲，你可以理解为什么会这样。PET-CT检查中心还没有普及，其中一个原因是检测时使用的被称为FDG的放射性葡萄糖不能长途运输。 So it is ideal to have the PET scanner close to the laboratory where the FDG is produced. The FDG is produced in a Cyclotron. 所以可以想象PET检查中心必须临近生产FDG的实验室。FDG是用回旋加速器制造的。 I live in Johannesburg South Africa and there is, at the time of writing this page, only one PET scan - CT scan unit in the country. It is about 6 kms from my home at the Linksfield Clinic. I believe there is a PET Scanner system coming to Cape Town soon since there has been an FDG Cyclotron production unit built at Faure. 我住在南非的约翰内斯堡，在写这篇文章的时候，我们国家只有一个PET-CT检查中心。它位于距离我家大约6公里的林克斯韦尔德诊所。我认为PET检查系统会很快来到开普敦，因为已有一个回旋加速器装置落户福雷。 What is a PET Scan? 什么事PET检查？ It has a long name ... Positron Emission Tornography. 它有一个很长的名字…正电子断层扫描仪。 In preparation for a PET Scan you will be told to drink quite a lot of water during a 16 hours period prior to the PET Scan itself. 在进行PET检查前的16小时中，你会被要求喝很多水。 You will be asked not to eat anything for 12 hours before the PET Scanning procedure. 还要禁食12小时。 You will be given a very spec