Issues, Controversies, and Clinical Utility of Combined PET/CT Imaging: What Is the Interpreting Physician Facing?
- 1 May 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Roentgen Ray Society in American Journal of Roentgenology
- Vol. 184 (5_suppleme) , S138-S145
- https://doi.org/10.2214/ajr.184.5_supplement.0184s138
Abstract
OBJECTIVE. This article identifies the most commonly encountered issues of combined PET/CT and shows the wide variability in perceived possible solutions to these issues. This article will serve as a catalyst to stimulate discussion between experts in both radiology and nuclear medicine.CONCLUSION. Combining a PET tomography and CT scanner into a single unit amounts to advantages that are not merely additive, but synergistic. Even PET/CT skeptics will embrace the technology after becoming acquainted with the possibilities and will accept the reality that there is no return to PET only.Keywords
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