Faster, more precise, this super-scanner wants to “revolutionize” the management of cancers
Health – The Toulouse Cancer University Institute (IUCT) is the first institution in France to use a new imaging device presented as “revolutionary” for the diagnosis and management of cancerous tumors
The passage of four minutes of a patient in the tunnel of this new “machine” provides as much information to his attending physician as if he had passed “30 scanners in the 2000s”, calculates Professor Frédéric Courbon, head of the imaging department at Toulouse Cancer University Institute (IUCT). The machine in question which, for a layman, has all the appearance of an ordinary scanner, in whiter and more futuristic, is a technological platform called Omni Legend and developed by the French company GE Healthcare.
The prototype, tested as a world first and used for several months at the Oncopole in Toulouse, is the only one to be in operation in France to date. The cancer professor Jean-Pierre Delord does not hesitate to qualify it as “revolutionary”. So what does this “TEP Scan” have more than the others? First, therefore, this speed of data acquisition which reduces the duration of this distressing examination, in particular for agitated or painful patients. With the corollary, the possibility of giving access to more patients per day. “All the patients who will need it(…) Read more at 20 minutes
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