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Yashoda Hospitals in Somajiguda, Hyderabad, has set up 'Artificial Intelligence' Integrated PET-CT to provide efficient diagnosis to patients of cancer.  

This advanced technology merges PET and CT images and provides detailed information about the size, shape and differentiating cancerous lesions from normal structures with accuracy.

It is a diagnostic examination that combines two state of the art imaging modalities and produces 3 dimensional (3D) images of the body based on the detection of radiation from the emission of positrons.

It also helps in early detection of cancer and any potential health problem and reveals how the tissues and organs are functioning by identifying a variety of conditions.

With this new technology, motion artifacts caused by respiration can be decreased and accurate diagnosis achieved. The use of PET scans will also help the doctors to more accurately detect the presence and location of new or recurrent cancers.
 
“The new scanner is now two times faster than the old generation scanners primarily due to the advanced technology known as “Time of Flight”. The scanner provides best quality images with reduced scanning duration and lesser radiation dose,” said Dr. G. Srinivasa Rao,  Director of Public Health and Family Welfare, Telangana Government.

Dr. Hrushikesh Aurangabadkar and Dr. A Naveen Kumar Reddy, Consultants in Nuclear Medicine department, while explaining about the PET/CT, said, “The cancer cells require a great deal of sugar, or glucose, to have enough energy to grow. PET scanning utilizes a radioactive molecule that is similar to glucose, called fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG).”

“FDG accumulates within malignant cells because of their high rate of glucose metabolism. Once injected with this agent, the patient is imaged on the whole body PET scanner to reveal cancer growth, which is usually difficult to characterize by conventional CT, X-Ray, or MRI."