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A whole body bone scan takes around 3-4 hours, which includes two separate visits. In the first visit you will be given an injection of a radioactive isotope into a vein in your arm. There are no side effects to this injection. The isotope takes 2-3 hours to circulate in the blood and get absorbed in the bone.
A bone scan shows up changes or abnormalities in the bones. It is also called a radionucleotide scan, scintigram or nuclear medicine test. A bone scan can look at a particular joint or bone. In cancer diagnosis, it is more usual to scan the whole body. You are scanned by a large camera (called a gamma camera) that picks up radioactivity. You have the scan in either the medical physics, nuclear medicine or x-ray department at the hospital. The scan can take up to 60 minutes.