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What are the disadvantages of PET scanning?

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They only work with cross sectional area, not 3D. They are also not completely accurate because the resultant photons are not reflected in completely opposite directions, but have some margain of error.

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My wife has a large arterial malformation on the left side of her brain. Can a arterial cat-scan show where the weakness are and or, where they have leaked?? Also, if there are more weaknesses in the malformation?

Would positron emission tomography imaging, give us a clearer picture of what we are dealing with??

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