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PET-CT

PET-CT will find many diseases with extremely high detection capability.

What is the PET?

PET is a abbribiation of Position Emission Tomology, and it is one kind of Nuclear Medicine Study using medical agent contains radioactivity. Test Agent is taken into a body, and radioactive ray emitted from a body is detected by a special Camera, then produces a image. Conventional X-ray scan detects approx 1.5cm in size, and with MRI or CT can detect with 1cm in size progressed cancer, but PET has a 10 to 20 times higher detection ability compared with standard checkup.

Adaptation disease

  • Epilepsia
  • Cancer of head and neck
  • Metastatic cancer of the liver
  • Ischemic cardiac disease
  • Brain Cancer
  • Uterus Cancer
  • Lung Cancer
  • Pancreatic Cancer
  • Esophageal Cancer
  • Breast Cancer
  • Lymphatic Malignancy
  • Overian Cancer
  • Bowel Cancer
  • Cancer of unknown primary
  • Malignant Melanorma

What is a test agent used for PET-CT examination?

Glucose sugar is a energy source of the body cell. Administered medicine named FDG used for this checkup has a similar formation with glucose sugar, so that it is taken into the body like glucose sugar. As radioactive nuclide fluorine(18F) is attached to FDG, PET-CT camera can detect the emitted radioactive ray and convert its distribution to an image.

Findings by PET-CT Exam.

Since our brain and heart are activated using glucose sugar, a lot of glucose sugar is taken into them. And Cancer cell is more acctivate than a normal cell, so it will take 3 to 8 times larger volume of glucpose. When FDG is administered to a body, it can be observed that the entire body glucose is taken in. It is therefore perceived as PET-CT examination is usefull for diagnosing brain, heart or cancer diseases.

Great characteristics of PET-CT

One
It can detect small cancer which is hard to find out in the conventional testing method, at early stage.
Two
It is not necessary to take split shooting, so examination time is shortened and physical stress/burden is releaved.
Three
There is almost no pain or discomfort , since a patient lay down on a bed with clothes on and then photo is taken.
Four
PET is excellent to determine benignity or malignancy of tumor, diagnose malignancy stage and cancer of unknown primary.

Flow from reservation to treatment

PET Dock Course

Items Charge (tax inclusive)
PET/CT examination 70,000円
  1. Reservation

    TEL:048562-5555
    (Health Checkup Center direct)

  2. Prior Explanation

    about a week ago

  3. Checkup Day Reception

    in approx. 30 min

  4. Change Clothes/Anteroom

    in approx. 1 hour

  5. Medical Interview/Medicine administration

    in approx. 30 min

  6. Stand by at Anteroom

    in approx. 1 hour

  7. Photographing (1st take)

    approx. 1 hour

  8. Recovery Room

    in approx. 1 hour

  9. Photographing (2nd take)

    in approx 30 min