title: Whole-body nuclear scanning
text: # Whole-body nuclear scanning
  
  Whole-body nuclear scanning is a medical imaging technique where the whole body is scanned, contrary to, e.g., neuroimaging where only the brain is scanned.
  
  Whole-body nuclear scanning may refer to several different modalities:
  
  * Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, also known more commonly as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  * But normally it would probably refer to a nuclear medicine tomographic imaging technique such as:
     * Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
     * Positron emission tomography (PET)
  