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  PET Scan (Positron Emission Tomography): a scan that takes pictures of the body and shows whether there are unusually high amounts of nutrients being processed; an imaging test to find malignant tumor cells in the body by injecting glucose into the body using a rotating scanner to show where more glucose is being used (malignant tumor cells take up more sugar than normal cells)