Combining MRI and PET scanners to halve radiation dose

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So you’re unlucky enough to be hit with the real C-word: cancer. That sucks. But what can be worse is that current medical scanning techniques come with large levels of radiation. The current practice of combining PET and CT scans produces good images, but the cost is high: a dose of radiation ten times the background amount the average human gets in a year. And that’s just one scan. Many cancer patients have to endure multiple scans. A new innovation promises to cut the radiation dose in half by combining PET and MRI scanners instead... Continue Reading Combining MRI and PET scanners to halve radiation dose

Section: Health and Wellbeing

Tags: Cancer, Medical, Radiation, Scanners, University of Oslo

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