Open AccessRevolution or evolution? Hybrid imaging continues to push boundaries
Author(s) -
Bailey DL
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
radiographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 2051-3909
pISSN - 0033-8273
DOI - 10.1002/j.2051-3909.2012.tb00182.x
Subject(s) - positron emission tomography , computed tomography , single photon emission computed tomography , medical physics , tomography , nuclear medicine imaging , preclinical imaging , multimodality , functional imaging , medical imaging , nuclear medicine , emission computed tomography , medicine , radiology , computer science , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , world wide web , in vivo
One of the major advances in imaging in the last decade has been the combination of existing functional imaging techniques such as SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) or positron emission tomography (PET) with x‐ray computed tomography (CT), giving an anatomical framework to the functional image. PET/CT and SPECT/CT have changed the practice of nuclear medicine considerably since their introduction. This article examines how this hybrid technology evolved, its revolutionary impact, and that it is now seen as the first of potentially many multimodality hybrid imaging devices.