Concord introduces molecular imaging technology for more accurate tumor diagnosis

In the earliest establishment of the Department of Nuclear Medicine in China, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, the first to establish the PET Center, recently introduced the latest molecular imaging technology equipment SIEMEMS Biograph64 type PET/CT. The person in charge of the hospital stated that this set of medical equipment integrating the latest technologies will play a role in the detection and assessment of tumours, the determination and location of complex lesions, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, infectious lesions, and atherosclerotic plaques. Important role.

Positron emission tomography (PET) was introduced in the 1990s as an advanced molecular imaging diagnostic technique. Computed tomography (CT) as a X-ray tomography technique has been widely used. PET/CT is to organically combine the above two medical technologies on the same device and conduct a check on the patients so that the inspection results of the two technologies can be matched and cross-referenced. This can shorten the examination time, improve the accuracy of lesion location, and provide qualitative diagnosis. ability. In addition, the new generation of PET/CT controls the whole body imaging time within 10 minutes, and the dose of radiopharmaceuticals injected by patients can be reduced accordingly.