What procedures can be performed in conjunction with a PET scan?

What procedures can be performed in conjunction with a PET scan?

Hossein Jadvar (Doctor) gives expert video advice on: How does a PET scan work?; How should I prepare for a PET scan?; Why do I have to fast before a PET scan? and more...

More recently, PET has been combined with structural imaging systems such as CT. We call it a PET/CT. And the combined PET/CT, the development of a combined PET/CT, has been quite important because now we have the ability to have information, not only on the structure or anatomy, but also the physiology that goes hand in hand with that anatomy and that structure. So, for example, if we see some abnormality on a PET scan, we know exactly where that is in the body. Or if we have a structure on CT, for example, we can say if that structure has normal or abnormal metabolism. There are more recent strides in developing even more combined imaging systems, including PET/MRI, for example, combined systems. There is already SPEC/CT systems which is single photon imaging computer tomography CT systems. That is used for general nuclear medicine. So the combined imaging systems that has the diagnostic information both from anatomy and physiology are basically the wave of the future in nuclear medicine.