Total-body PET/CT scanner granted FDA approval

The technology can capture three-dimensional (3D) images of the entire human body at one bed position and requires 40-times less radiation than current methods, according to a recent company press release. United Imaging made its U.S. market debut in November at RSNA 2018 in Chicago, where Simon Cherry, PhD and Ramsey Badawi, PhD, of UC Davis, presented a prototype of the system and the first images taken by the device. "The human images the uEXPLORER produces have been nothing shor...

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