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Results
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Your doctor analyzes the results of your SPECT scan. Pictures from your scan may show colors that tell your doctor what areas of your body absorbed more of the radioactive tracer and which areas absorbed less. For instance, a brain SPECT image might show a lighter color where brain cells are less active and darker colors where brains cells are more active. Some SPECT images show shades of gray, rather than colors.
Ask your health care team how long to expect to wait for your results.
- Wernick MN, et al. Emission Tomography: The fundamentals of PET and SPECT. San Diego, Calif.: Elsevier; 2004:146.
- General nuclear medicine. RadiologyInfo. http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.crm?PG=gennuclear. Accessed Jan. 9, 2009.
- Nuclear medicine. American Society of Radiologic Technologists. https://www.asrt.org/content/ThePublic/AboutRadiologicProcedures/Nuclear_Medicine.aspx. Accessed Jan. 9, 2009.
- What is nuclear medicine? Society of Nuclear Medicine. http://interactive.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=1110&RPID=3106&FileID=5932. Accessed Jan. 12, 2009.
- Computer imaging/tomography. American Heart Association. http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4554. Accessed Jan. 9, 2009.
- Cancer imaging. National Cancer Institute. http://imaging.cancer.gov/imaginginformation/cancerimaging/page5. Accessed Jan. 9, 2009.
