PET CT
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PET CT Scan at Superia
The Superia centre is provided with one of the most pre-eminent PET CT Scanners available in the industry, a Biograph vision PET CT scanner. This scanner enables you to notice an entirely different level of accuracy. It goes past computerized imaging to uncover and expand efficiency thus helping the medics to understand the disease progression in a better manner.
FAQ
PET CT Scan:
A technique that integrates the photos from a positron emission tomography (PET) scan and computed tomography (CT) scan. The PET and CT scans are completed simultaneously with the same machines. The merged scans give more detailed pictures of regions inside the body than either examination given by individual scans. A PET-CT scan might be utilized to assist with diagnosing illnesses, such as cancer, planning treatment, or figuring out how effectively the treatment is performing. Additionally called positron emission tomography-computed tomography scan.
A PET scan can:
Measure essential functions, for example, blood flow, oxygen use and glucose (blood) digestion.
Determine organs and tissues that aren’t functioning as they should.
Recognize cancerous tumour cells to assist with checking cancer disease spread (metastasis).
Evaluate how well a treatment plan is performing and assist your doctor with changing treatment, if necessary.
PET scan identifies unhealthy cells in organs and tissues. You get an intravenous (IV) infusion of a protected measure of a radioactive medication. This substance is known as a radiotracer.
Unhealthy cells in your body embody a greater amount of the radiotracer than solid ones do. The PET scanner detects this radiation and produces pictures of the impacted tissue. A PET/CT scan combines X-ray pictures from a CT scan with PET scan pictures.
PET-CT scans are for some kinds of cancer growth. They are generally recognised to be more accurate in diagnosing cancer growth than PET or CT checks independently. PET-CT scan can serve to:
Analyze cancer
Figure out how enormous a cancer growth is and whether it has spread (stage of cancer)
decide whether you can have a medical procedure to eliminate the cancer
conclude which is the best therapy for your type of cancer
check whether your cancer has returned
plan radiotherapy treatment
A PET-CT sweep can likewise show how well a cancer treatment is working.
After you have had therapy for cancer, a scan may show a site that looks like there might still be some cancer left. This probably won’t be cancer but scar tissue left over from cancer killed off by your treatment. A PET-CT scan can sometimes show whether this tissue is active cancer or not.