File talk:PET scan image.jpg

Interpretation?
I realize that these are PET scan films, but is there an interpretation available that tells us what we are looking at, what the bright areas represent, etc? Without an explanation, the images are meaningless. Running the caption through the BING Translator offers no help. ["Image pathology revealing a from lymph node metastasis of tomography positron emission (application in Oncology)."] Is the involved lymph node the bright spot in the neck? Are the others the heart and urinary bladder? Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 17:21, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

The version I was looking at
This section was written when the current (latest) version of "" was the "14:03, 6 March 2006" version. The only URL I seemed to be able to find for it, did not seem very helpful ...it was this link (with a URL of https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/PET_scan_image.jpg ).

That URL did not seem to contain any date/time stamp! ... (is that perhaps customary for "latest version" files on "upload dot wikimedia dot org"?). However, I was able to find that the previous version of that file -- (the "12:44, 6 March 2006" version) -- had this "link" (with the URL or "internet address" of https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/d/d7/20060306210358%21PET_scan_image.jpg ). There! That might help.

I realize that there may "appear" to be some "mistmatch" between the displayed << "date/time stamp" >> [for that previous version of that file] ... (which says "12:44, 6 March 2006") and the -- ("apparently") YYYYMMDDHHMMSS portion of its URL, (which says "20060306210358"). (Well, the "dates" do seem to match ... but maybe not the "times".) I do not know whether that is normal, here, or ... if it indicates something wrong. [So...] Thanks for your patience, here, if some things which I do not know ... "should" have been obvious.

What "might be" wrong
I noticed what might be a TYPO [or some 'mistake'] in the caption ... that is, in the "description" field.

That caption -- (or "description" field) says -- (apparently in French) -- "Image pathologie révélant une métastase ganglionnaire issue de la tomographie à émission de positon (application en oncologie)."

It seems that, right before the last 3 words, (which are in parentheses), the word "positon" is perhaps a misspelling of "positron". (right?)

Oops, wait a minute! I just checked positon, and ... it says that [the French word] "positon" -- [without an "r"] -- can mean: [the English word] "positon", -- [again, without an "r"] -- which ... can mean: [the English word] "positron"  -- [with an "r"]. (!) (Well, the Wiktionary entry for ["positon"] says: << "(physics) A positron [with an 'r'], especially when compared with a negaton" >>.)

(Whoa!)

However, I still think that it -- (that is, the missing "r") -- might be a TYPO or a mistake.

Any comments?
Any comments? --Mike Schwartz (talk) 08:55, 6 August 2019 (UTC)