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J. Czernin, M. A. Auerbach

Clinical PET/CT imaging: Promises and misconceptions

PET/CT is now established as the most important imaging tool in oncology. PET/CT stages and restages cancer with a higher accuracy than PET or CT alone. The sometimes irrational approach to combine state of the art PET with the highest end CT devices should give way to a more reasonable equipment design tailored towards the specific clinical indications in well-defined patient populations. The continuing success of molecular PET/CT now depends more upon advances in molecular imaging with the introduction of targeted imaging probes for individualized therapy approaches in cancer patients and less upon technological advances of imaging equipment.

Nuklearmedizin, Schattauer

Print ISSN: 0029-5566
Volume: 44, 01/2005
Pages: S18 - S23

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