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PET (Positron Emission Tomography) 

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a imaging technique of nuclear medicine that is used to observe metabolic processes in the body. The PET is based on the detection of small amounts of positron emitter labelled biologic molecules.

 

The beginning and recent trends of PET Examination

The first PET center in Korea was opened with a dedicated PET scanner at Seoul National University Hospital on 5 June, 1994.

In 1995, medical cyclotron was started to produce FDG for oncology imaging.

A PET scan can be used to detect cancers, especially lymphoma or cancers of head and neck, brain, lung, colon, or prostate.

We have performed various exam and research using 18F, 11C, 13N, 15O for brain and heart imaging.

The PET images have been used to diagnose various brain disease such as epilepsy, cerebrovascular disease, dementia and helped to evaluate cardiovascular diseases.

We introduced a PET/CT scanner which combines a PET scanner and an x-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner in 2003.

PET/CT images provide that the spatial distribution of metabolic or biochemical activity in the body can be more precisely aligned or correlated with anatomic imaging obtained by CT scanning.

A PET/MRI was introduced in the Cancer Imaging Center of Seoul National University Cancer Hospital on March 2011.

The Cancer Imaging Center is combined the Department of Nuclear Medicine with the Department of Radiology, provides tumor imaging and contributes to the field of molecular imaging.


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