PET/CT

PET/CT

Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography is a diagnostic tool used mainly in oncology staging. It’s also used widely in planning surgery and treatment.

PET/CT combines two different techniques in one scanner, giving Clinicians two sets of related information about the body – functional and structural – from one examination. The CT scanner takes a series of two-dimensional cross-section images (‘slices’) around an axis. Computer processing is then used to construct a three-dimensional image. PET works by detecting gamma rays given off by a radioactive tracer that we inject into your body.

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