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What you need to know about the clinical utility of PET-CT
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CLINICAL UPDATE
What you need to know about the clinical utility of PET-CT
Wednesday 14 September 2022, 12:30 AM

Fused PET and CT images showing high metabolic activity within the anterior mediastinal lymphomatous masses, which measure up to 5cm [Image: Supplied]
This article looks at recent advances in combined functional and anatomic imaging, specifically positron emission tomography-computed tomography
Key points, PET-CT is a hybrid imaging modality that produces a more complete picture of a patient’s cancer disease status than standalone CT.
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2. Salvadori J, Odille F, Verger A, et al. Head-to-head comparison between digital and analog PET of human and phantom images when optimized for maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio from small lesions. EJNMMI Phys 2020;7(1):11.