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Article: Clinical PET/CT: A Win or a Loss for Nuclear Medicine?
- Article from:
- The Journal of Nuclear Medicine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright Society of Nuclear Medicine Mar 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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PET/CT dual-modality imaging is here to stay. There can be no question of that. Almost 3 of 4 new units sold today are PET/CT hardware fusion units. Clinical PET performed with 18F-FDG has been the domain primarily of nuclear medicine since clinical units first became commercially available in the early 1990s, and PET technology has been developed almost exclusively by professionals in the field of nuclear medicine.
Rapid improvements in PET technology have occurred in the last 5 years, including the introduction of commercially manufactured dual-modality PET/CT devices. The advantages of PET/CT units over dedicated PET units are inherent in the marriage of 2 modalities capable of providing ...