A technologist will explain the entire process to you prior to starting the exam.  They will also ask you some health history questions, which will help our radiologist interpret your exam.
 
You will be escorted to a quiet room and made comfortable in a reclining chair for the wait time between injection and scan.   A technologist will place an intravenous (IV) line in your arm and give you our radiopharmaceutical imaging reagent.  Since you must reduce as much muscular motion as possible, you will not be allowed to do any type of physical activity (talking or even reading) during this time.  After your wait period (30 minutes), you will be asked to lie flat on our imaging bed for the scan. 

If you have any technical questions, specific to this procedure, please don’t hesitate to ask the technologist at dosing time.  All clinical questions should be directed to your physician.

A report will be sent to your ordering physician.

Total time for this exam is about 90 minutes.  There is a minimum of a 30 minutes wait from injection time to image.  Images take about 45 minutes.