New cancer scanner in Australian first at Sydney hospital
Cancer patients are set to benefit from a new PET scanner, the first of its kind in Australia which will revolutionise the way tumours are targeted and tracked. Conventional PET scans require patients to lie on a bed for 20 to 30 minutes, but the new whole-body imaging machine can perform scans in a quarter of that time. Instead of having to take a series of images, the scanner can capture the body's tissues and organs from head to toe in one single scan. A new scanner can examine the entire body for tumours in mere minutes.(9News) READ MORE: It will also mean patients will be exposed to less...
Source: 9news.com.au