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Siemens Installs Asia's First High-Definition PET-CT in India

Siemens Medical Solutions recently installed Asia's first High Definition Positron Emission Tomography (HD-PET). This high-end equipment is installed at Piramal Diagnostics, Mumbai. By utilising a proprietary reconstruction technique, HD-PET can provide distortion-free images throughout the entire field of view. Its improved uniform 2mm resolution enables physicians to clearly visualise the smallest of lesions from the center to the edges a benefit unique to Siemens' HD-PET. Adding high definition to PET systems also dramatically enhances contrast. The HD-PET is especially important in monitoring patients who have had surgery or therapy. The image clarity enables physicians to identify the smallest as well as the earliest recurrences of head and neck malignancies, especially in post-operative and post-radiation patients with distorted anatomy. It can provide physicians with improved delineation of early axillary lymph node metastases in primary breast cancer and nodal and chest wall recurrences in post-treatment patients referred for restaging. It is also very useful in lung cancer, especially in post-radiation therapy, post-surgery conditions associated with fibrosis, effusion and pneumonitis. Speaking at the installation of HD-PET-CT, D Ragavan, Executive Vice President, Siemens Medical Solutions Division, said, "With over one million new patients being diagnosed with cancer every year, there is a greater need to deploy all the innovative technologies to diagnose and to treat patients. HD-PET is a clear example of this direction and is a result of rigorous focus on innovation at Siemens. The global deliveries of HD-PET started just a few weeks ago and we are doubly delighted by the fact that this is the first installation of HD-PET in Asia."

EH News Bureau