J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.
ISSN 1880-1129

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J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 106(11): 677-684, 2005

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THE FRONTIERS OF DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY―PET/CT, 3DCT―

1) Department of Radiology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences
2) Nagoya Kyoritsu Hospital
3) Nagoya PET Imaging center

Masaki Hara1), Hidekazu Oshima1), Hiromasa Suzuki1), Norio Shiraki1), Masanori Kitase1), Yuta Shibamoto1), Tsuneo Tamaki2), Masami Nishio3)

Recently, positron-emission tomography (PET) systems have been introduced in many institutions around Japan and their clinical importance should increase in the management of many malignant diseases, particularly systems using 2- [fluorine-18] fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) .Since March 2004, we have been using the first PET/computed tomography (CT) scanner in Japan with 4-slice multidetector CT (MDCT) and now have introduced a second PET/CT scanner with 8-slice MDCT because of its excellent diagnostic cap ability and higher throughput capacity than that of the ordinal PET scanner.
MDCT was a landmark in the history of CT in 1998. Subsequently, 8-,16-,32-,and 40-slice MDCT was developed in rapid succession. Finally, 64-slice MDCT became commercially available in 2005. In the future, 256-slice MDCT and flat-panel CT will appear in the clinical setting. Using these MDCT systems, we can now obtain multidimensional CT images very easily. These multidimensional images are less-invasive methods that are gradually phasing out the use of invasive angiography including digital subtraction angiography.
In this article we describe the current features of PET/CT and multidimensional CT using MDCT.

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