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Recovery of PET scan

The scanning process is not painful, and the amounts of radioactivity involved pose an extremely low risk, existing in the body for only a few hours.

The report from a radiologist specially trained in analysing PET images will be sent to the patient’s consultant, usually within a couple of weeks.