Issues, controversies, and clinical utility of combined PET/CT imaging: what is the interpreting physician facing?
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Abstract
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. 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.
Medical subject headings
- Biotechnology
- Image Enhancement
- Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
- Nuclear Medicine
- Tomography, Emission-Computed
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed