{"id":2979,"date":"2023-04-21T23:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2023-04-21T23:52:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T23:52:00","slug":"pet-scan-vs-ct-scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2979","title":{"rendered":"PET Scan vs. CT Scan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-206.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-2980\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-206.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-206.png 750w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-206-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-206-293x209.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-206-390x279.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0\">Both&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/what-to-expect-during-a-petct-scan-2252467\">positron-emission tomography<\/a>&nbsp;(PET) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/what-is-a-cat-scan-189603\">computed tomography<\/a>&nbsp;(CT) scans use energy to create images of the body and can diagnose many types of medical conditions. They differ in the type of energy they use and the reasons for use. Often, a PET scan is performed along with a CT scan to provide detailed images of the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-2\">Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/pet-scan-vs-ct-scan-7095580\">https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/pet-scan-vs-ct-scan-7095580<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both&nbsp;positron-emission tomography&nbsp;(PET) and&nbsp;computed tomography&nbsp;(CT) scans use energy to create images of the body and can diagnose many types of medical conditions. They differ in the type of energy they use and the reasons for use. Often, a PET scan is performed along with a CT scan to provide detailed images of the body. Read more here: https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/pet-scan-vs-ct-scan-7095580<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preventative-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2981,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions\/2981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}