Back to Cancer Australia’s websiteSPECT stands for ‘Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography’. You have an injection of a very small amount of a radioactive chemical, which circulates in your blood and shows up the cancer on the scanner. It is similar to a PET scan.
SPECT stands for ‘Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography’. You have an injection of a very small amount of a radioactive chemical, which circulates in your blood and shows up the cancer on the scanner. It is similar to a PET scan.