What is PET/CT?

What is PET/CT?

PET/CT is a method that increases the success rate in the fight against cancer in order to detect cancerous tissues and also to plan the treatment and evaluate the process.  This method is considered as one of the most important technologies for many patients to have a healthy life.

PET CT is the word that emerged by combining positron emission tomography technology with computed tomography.  It is a very important technological medical imaging method that allows the diagnosis of many diseases.  This technology is often used in the diagnosis and staging of cancer.  In addition, this method is used in the diagnosis of diseases whose cause is unknown and cannot be diagnosed, such as fever in the human body.

In addition, thanks to this method, it is also possible to find the foci of infection.  In heart patients, the detection of living tissue is also possible thanks to this method.  Its effective structure is also used in the differentiation of both Alzheimer’s and dementia.  Thanks to this device, especially cancer diagnosis and staging are provided.  Afterwards, all stages are carried out in order to determine its prevalence and to draw up an accurate treatment plan.  Thanks to this device, a roadmap for the treatment of the fight against cancer is created.  This is the most important contribution to the fight against the disease.

PET/CT Application Areas

This device guides the treatment of cancer.  It is also used in the stages of diagnosis and treatment.  Thanks to the device, the metabolism of the tissue suspected of cancer is determined.  In addition, it reveals data on whether the masses detected by various imaging methods show cancer metabolism or not.

It also helps to biopsy any tissue suspected of cancer from that area, both correctly and with the least discomfort to the patient.  Due to uncontrolled proliferation, which is the most important feature of cancerous tissue, it can also damage its own structure.  Tissue fragments taken from this damaged area may not yield enough cells for the examination.  Thanks to this device, it shows where the living cells are concentrated and these areas and guides the biopsy.  It is a guiding device that shows how to reach the diagnosis in the fastest way.

Features of PET/CT Device

The most distinctive feature of the PET/CT device is its ability to evaluate the extent of cancer.  Thanks to the technology it contains, it is successfully used on many types of cancer in order to evaluate the spread of the disease at the first level after the diagnosis of cancer.  It is a very guiding device for the treatment of local-scale places with a disease that has spread throughout the body, called metastasis.

One of the most distinctive features of the device is the determination of the treatment approach.  After the research with this device, the treatment approach of one out of every three patients changes on average.  Sometimes it allows the application method to change.  For example, it can show that it can be done with drug therapy instead of surgical application.  For some patients, it can also reveal the spread of their disease.  It can also allow the removal of cancerous tissue by determining the spread.

In addition, one of the features of the device is the early detection of the benefit of the cancer drug.  Medicines whose side effects must be taken seriously are called cancerous drugs.  Thanks to the device, the most appropriate drug is used, it gets rid of its side effects, and the cancerous tissue receives the drug directly and therefore provides early intervention.  This also prevents the disease.  After the cure in the first and second stages of cancer treatment, the evaluation to be made with this device can reveal the benefit of the drug and at the same time give early information.

One of the features of the PET/CT device is that it configures the radiation treatment plan.

The response by the body to the cancer-based drug used allows numerical changes on the one hand, and the severity of cellular activities to be evaluated numerically, on the other.  After the completion of the treatment process, it serves both to investigate the presence of cancer cells that are alive and to determine the effectiveness of the treatment.  This device is the system that provides the earliest visualization of the response to treatment.

The device also allows making a radiation therapy plan.  By mapping the areas of viable tumor cells that need to be irradiated, either by using radiotherapy or radiation therapy, by this device, it helps to increase the patient’s chance of treatment by revealing them both accurately and effectively.  In addition, irradiation to healthy tissues is prevented with this device.

What is PET/CT?