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vbn6 wrote: > > There are only a few PET scan machines..... about 250 > in the world the last I heard. They are quite > expensive to buy and terribly expensive to operate.... > The neurologist I use in New Jersey [in a med school] has > to send people [rarely] to London to get a scan done. > T'ain't cheap!! Will Johnnston<< I'm not sure, but I believe that the high cost of PET scans is not the machine, but the radioactive tracer material that is injected beforehand, to identify the particular compound whose presence it is desired to map. Cheers, Joe -- J. R. Bruman (818) 789-3694 3527 Cody Road Sherman Oaks, CA 91403-5013