DEDICATED PET SYSTEM DETECTS 73% MORE CANCERS OVERALL COMPARED TO DUAL-HEAD COINCIDENCE (SPECT) GAMMA CAMERA, RESEARCHER TELLS RADIOLOGY CONFERENCE
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A dedicated positron emission tomography (PET) scanner using 18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG-18) as a radiotracer detected 73% more cancer sites (121 versus 70) than were identified with an FDG-18 dual-head coincidence gamma camera, researcher Paul Shreve, MD, University of Michigan, reported Dec. 3 at the Radiological Society of North America conference in Chicago.