A patient tells visiting family that a test was done to examine how the patient's brain is functioning. Which type of test does the nurse recognize as the test the patient is describing?

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1. A PET scan provides information about the metabolic functioning of the brain. CT, MRI, and SPECT are imaging techniques to examine the structure, not function, of the brain.

A Patient Tells Visiting Family That a Test Was Done