Society of Nuclear Medicine
Combined PET/CT scanner significantly better than CT and PET in staging tumors
Published in Telemedicine Law Weekly, July 17th, 2004
Early and accurate detection of oncological disease is critical to the treatment and, ultimately, survival of patients suffering from cancer. In an effort to determine the accuracy of an integrated PET/CT scanner with more traditional diagnostic imaging methods for whole-body, malignant tumors, researchers in Essen, Germany, compared the imaging results of the integrated FDG-PET/CT with CT images alone, PET images alone, and CT and PET images viewed side by side.
The scientists theorized that the new technologically superior, dual-modality PET/CT would yield more accurate readings of tumor staging than previously used image capture methods. The German team presented...
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