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Lung cancer pet ct. For most pet ct scans you need to stop eating about 4 to 6 hours beforehand. Preparing for your pet ct scan. The computer combines information from the two scans to provide a three dimensional image which.
You can usually drink water during this time. Most doctors do not recommend petct scans for routine follow up of patients after lung cancer treatment. In over 80 of indeterminate ct scans petct correctly characterizes lung nodules.
For a bone scan a small amount of low level radioactive material is injected into the blood and collects mainly in abnormal areas of. Statistically speaking petct is far superior to ct in terms of diagnostic accuracy in solitary pulmonary nodule characterization. The image on the right is a combined ct pet scan.
Lung cancer is the most common malignant cancer throughout the world. Combining a pet scan with an mri or ct scan can help make the images easier to interpret. In diagnosing lung cancer but their role in checking whether treatment is working is unproven.
The positron emission tomographycomputed tomography pet ct combines both the metabolism information from pet and anatomy details from ct which is the state of the art. A lung pet scan is typically combined with a lung ct scan to detect conditions like lung cancer. Petct is 97 sensitive has an 85 specificity value a 92 negative predictive value npv and a 93 positive predictive value.
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