Hi Gintonic, I have had several PET scans and I did ask that exact question - about the brain. I was told that they can't do a brain PET scan, (anything higher than your neck) because the brain has so much electric activity going on all the time that they would never get a reading on the brain. A PET scan lights up any cancers/tumors in the body that are cancerous, hence a PET on the brain just wouldn't take. They can do a regular scan on the brain, (the scan where you are not given a sugar injection, but likely a dye injection). It might be a good idea to ask your doctor to explain this to you and your husband. A PET scan will scan the entire body, other than the brain, so any cancers in the body will be detected. A PET scan is really the cadilac of scans.
Good luck with it and come back and let us know how your husband gets along.
Hi Gintonic, I have had several PET scans and I did ask that exact question - about the brain. I was told that they can't do a brain PET scan, (anything higher than your neck) because the brain has so much electric activity going on all the time that they would never get a reading on the brain. A PET scan lights up any cancers/tumors in the body that are cancerous, hence a PET on the brain just wouldn't take. They can do a regular scan on the brain, (the scan where you are not given a sugar injection, but likely a dye injection). It might be a good idea to ask your doctor to explain this to you and your husband. A PET scan will scan the entire body, other than the brain, so any cancers in the body will be detected. A PET scan is really the cadilac of scans.
Good luck with it and come back and let us know how your husband gets along.
Thats really odd because following a PET scan in January, I was told that there was activity showing in the brain and I needed an MRI to look at it in more detail. After the MRI it was confirmed as a tumour. x
