Technology Insight: Advances in molecular imaging and an appraisal of PET/CT scanning

Wolfgang A. Weber; Anca L. Grosu; Johannes Czernin

doi:10.1038/ncponc1041

Technology Insight: Advances in molecular imaging and an appraisal of PET/CT scanning

Wolfgang A. Weber, Anca L. Grosu, Johannes Czernin

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Abstract

PET/CT imaging has rapidly emerged as an important imaging tool in oncology. The success of PET/CT imaging is based on several features. First, patients benefit from a comprehensive diagnostic anatomical and functional (molecular) whole-body survey in a single session. Second, PET/CT provides more-accurate diagnostic information than PET or CT alone. Third, PET/CT imaging allows radiation oncologists to use the functional information provided by PET scans for radiation treatment planning. In this Review we discuss the technical features of PET/CT, its economic aspects within the health-care system, and its role in diagnosis, staging, restaging and treatment monitoring as well as radiation planning in patients with cancer.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	160-170
Number of pages	11
Journal	Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine
Volume	5
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncponc1041
State	Published - Mar 2008
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

CT
Molecular imaging
Multimodality imaging
PeT
PeT/CT

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