The little room that they hold PET patients in is barely big enough for the "lounge chair" (the vantage from which this picture was taken--thats my arm-table in the lower left) and the 5-footed stool (that the tech sits on when inserting the IV line). You can also see the sheet of lead --the dark line sandwiched in the middle of the door--that lines the whole room, door and walls.
The whole room could be as small as 8'x8'
Just like when the Dental Hygenist steps out of the room while your dental x-rays are being taken, the PET technician steps out of the room during the pumped injection to avoid excess workplace exposure to radiation..and then the tech stays away for the hour thereafter as the injection circulates and the radioactive FDG sugar is drawn to the hungry cancer cells.
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