title: Single photon emission tomography/computed tomography (SPET/CT) and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) to image cancer.
abstract: Hybrid systems associating the sharpness of anatomic images coming from computed tomography (CT) and radionuclide functional imaging (SPET or PET) are opening a new era in oncology. This multimodal imaging method is now routinely used for the diagnosis, extent, follow up, treatment response and detection of occult disease in different types of malignancies with a significant impact on the treatment strategy leading for a change for more than 68% of all investigated patients.
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine nucléaire, Institut Curie, Hôpital René Huguenin, 35 rue Dailly, F 92210 Saint-Cloud, France. alberini@crh1.org
authors.forename: Jean-Louis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Alberini
authors.forename: Veronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Edeline
authors.forename: Anne Laure
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Giraudet
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Champion
authors.forename: Benoit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Paulmier
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Madar
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Poinsignon
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bellet
authors.forename: Alain Paul
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Pecking
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D018358:Neuroendocrine Tumors / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18