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Does the use of radioactive solutions for a CT scan break one's fast?

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Nuclear tumor imaging is a technique that combines CT scans and positron emission tomography to identify tumors in the body. It does not invalidate the fast of a fasting person, nor do the contrast solutions, because they are not nutritive; rather, they are therapeutic injections.

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