PET scans are a form of imaging scan that can take three-dimensional images of the inside of a person’s body. They can help a doctor detect and accurately stage someone’s liver cancer.

What Is A Full-Body Scan? The whole body or PET CT scan is a comprehensive examination that uses Computed Tomography (CT) to create detailed images of the entire body, beginning just below the chin.

PET scans can light up tumors in the body and help doctors determine if they are cancerous or benign (noncancerous). The results of a PET scan help guide medical decisions.

GE HealthCare and Stanford Medicine hope to explore new clinical pathways by developing "total body" PET/CT scanning ...

SINCE THE NEW KAMLOOPS CANCER CENTRE was announced, doctors, healthcare workers, First Nations, Thompson Regional Hospital ...

Medicine has renewed its research partnership with GE HealthCare to develop new clinical pathways and imaging solutions through the use of total-body PET/CT.  Through their partnership, Stanford ...

According to Dr Mutua, a PET scan can detect cancer in lymph nodes and organs that appear normal on a chest CT scan. “Since PET scans cover a larger area of the body, from the skull to the ...

Expansion of imaging infrastructure nationwide will ramp up opportunities for both faster patient diagnosis and ...

Prostate cancer that spreads or comes back after treatment is often small and hard to detect. A new test called a PSMA PET scan makes these tumors easier to spot. Learn more.

Future Oncol. 2010;6(2):305-317. While the role of PET/CT in external beam radiotherapy has been evaluated, to date, no studies have evaluated its role in SBRT. A Phase I trial from our ...