Molecular imaging - it's imaging - but not as we know it
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Molecular imaging was a major theme at the 2004 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting held at the end of November in Chicago. The grafting of computed tomography (CT) onto positron emission tomography (PET) has shifted the modality towards mainstream radiology, although it will take a transposition to CT/PET for it to have truly left the domain of nuclear medicine.