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Scotland is set to receive its first total-body scanner in a boost to clinical research that aims to improve the detection, diagnosis and treatment of complex, multi-organ diseases.The Total-Body Positron Emission Tomography (PET) facility, due to be
Cancer patients are set to benefit from a new PET scanner, the first of its kind in Australia which will revolutionise the way tumours are targeted and tracked.
Conventional PET scans require patients to lie on a bed for 20 to 30 minutes, but the new whole-body imaging machine can perform scans in a quarter of that time.
Instead of having to take a series of images, the scanner can capture the body s tissues and organs from head to toe in one single scan.
A new scanner can examine the entire body for tumours in mere minutes.(9News)
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It will also mean patients will be exposed to less radiation.
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$15m project to establish whole-body imaging in Australian first
A project driven by Sydney should provide unique imaging capability to Australia while revolutionising patient care, through a joint venture with Northern Sydney Local Health District to procure a total body PET/CT scanner.
The ability to image all the tissues and organs of the human body in a quick, single scan, is one step closer in Australia with its first Total Body Positron Emission Tomography (TB-PET) scanner to be established as a joint venture between the University of Sydney and Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) at the Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH).