• Question: why do you work in the pet departmentif your not a vet?

    Asked by daynab1503 to Charlotte, Dhvanil, Frank, Jim, Leila on 11 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by jodie31, abbieeshaww.
    • Photo: Jim O Doherty

      Jim O Doherty answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      PET doesn’t have anything to do with rover the dog or skippy the kangaroo, it stands for “Positron Emission Tomography” which is a complicated name for the type of scanner that we use to scan patients after we inject them with radioactive dye

    • Photo: Dhvanil Karia

      Dhvanil Karia answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      PET is a abbreviation which ideally should be written as P.E.T; standing for “Positron Emission Tomography”. You got confused because some lazy people in the world have just messed it up.

      The hint is if all the letters of word PET are capitals you are referring to Positron Emission Tomography else you are referring to an animal which can be Jimbo the dog or millie the cat or any house pet as a matter of fact.

    • Photo: Leila Nichol

      Leila Nichol answered on 12 Mar 2013:

      Positron Emission Tomography, something like a reverse CT scanner, instead of the radiation going through you, you’re injected with radioactive substance which gives off radiation and detected by the scanner. It’s excellent at showing where disease is located, but not so good at showing anatomy, which is why we normally have combined PET/CT scanners nowadays!

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