 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | [quote=UncleVern]PET scans are expensive and not available in this area, however my Cancer Clinic had a portable one in a Semi-truck trailer brought into the parking lot on some Saturdays.[/quote]
I think both of my PET scans were done with the portable vans, although the clinics concerned had their own CT and MRI machines.
PET seems to be used primarily with a coordinated CT scan, so each slice has an image in both systems -- If PET shows a 'hot spot', the reviewer can then switch to the CT view of the same slice to check it out.
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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