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It means that the tissue is absorbing the radioactive sugar they injected you with prior to the PET scan. Different tissues absorb this at different rates and hypermetabolic means that the target tissue is absorbing the sugar at rates above the norm (as happens with infected/inflammed tissue and cancer cells).

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