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Planar and SPECT imaging in the era of PET and PET–CT: can it survive the test of time?

Authors: Abass Alavi, Sandip Basu

Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Issue 8/2008

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Dynamism has always been the hallmark of the specialty of nuclear medicine, which has transformed the field enormously over the past several decades. The evolution of PET for assessing organ metabolism at the molecular level as a purely research modality to a powerful clinical imaging tool has ushered a new era in medical imaging. With the availability of high quality of FDG-PET images on a routine basis in most centers around the world and the likelihood that several other useful PET tracers will be approved in the near future for routine clinical applications, the pressing question in the medical community is: Will PET gradually replace most conventional nuclear medicine procedures? The implication of a positive answer is of great importance to the field worldwide with regard to training the future generation of practitioners of the specialty and allocating capital funds and space for such transformation. …

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Title: Planar and SPECT imaging in the era of PET and PET–CT: can it survive the test of time?
Authors: Abass Alavi
Sandip Basu
Publication date: 01-08-2008
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Issue 8/2008
Print ISSN: 1619-7070
Electronic ISSN: 1619-7089
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-008-0813-2

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