Abstract
The first clinical Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Center in Southeast Asia was put up by St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City, Philippines in 2002. It was initially equipped with a GE Advance NXi PET scanner and GE Minitrace 9.5MEV cyclotron and then later the scanner was upgraded to a Philips 64 slice TOF PET/CT scanner. Being the only PET imaging facility in the country it was inevitable that all types of patients from the well to the seriously-ill would be entering through its swinging glass doors in order to avail of the superior sensitivity of FDG-PET in detecting cancer and inflammation. Although some patients and their doctors wanted the scan to find something, most of the patients wished nothing significant would be reported.
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Santiago, J.F.Y. (2015). Introduction. In: Positron Emission Tomography with Computed Tomography (PET/CT). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05518-3_1
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