title: [The frontiers of diagnostic radiology--PET/CT, 3DCT--].
abstract: 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 capability 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences.
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hara
authors.forename: Hidekazu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Oshima
authors.forename: Hiromasa
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Norio
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shiraki
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kitase
authors.forename: Yuta
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shibamoto
authors.forename: Tsuneo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tamaki
authors.forename: Masami
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishio
mesh_terms: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015898:Tomography Scanners, X-Ray Computed / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18