| Developers: | United Imaging Healthcare |
| Last Release Date: | November, 2018 |
| Branches: | Pharmaceutics, medicine, health care |
| Technology: | Computer, PET |
2018: The first-ever PET / KT-apparat, scanning all body in 30 seconds is provided
At the beginning of November, 2018 the Shanghai company United Imaging Healthcare provided the first-ever PET / KT-skaner all body which carries out pictures at all levels at the same time. The new device developed together with the University of California in Davis (UC Davis) works nearly 40 times quicker, than the PET-scanners presented at the market, and can represent three-dimensional model of all body after single-step scanning.
The device under the name Explorer integrates the PET and KT methods. Its first prototype appeared in 2016, and the first trial device for researches of the person was provided at the beginning of 2018. In November announced option, ready to commercial use, which will go on sale in 2019.
The Explorer scanner allows not only to carry out faster scanning, creating a 3D model of all body in only 20-30 seconds, but also to receive more detailed image as the device by 40 times is more sensitive, than the modern systems of scanning.
For this Explorer it is required much less radiopharmaceuticals that reduces a cumulative dose on the patient's organism. The ratio of image quality, duration of scanning and a dose of radiation will differ in different scopes, but in any situation, according to developers, the new scanner will win against the existing systems by one of these parameters or on their combination.
Distinctive feature of a new system of scanning is capability to make the image of all body at single single-step scanning. The modern PET-systems are slow and inefficient as they allow to receive only one or several cuts for time. The image of all body can be created in 30-40 minutes of scanning, however it considerably limits capability of clinical physicians to estimate changes in real time, for example, the movement of contrast. Explorer provides to doctors absolutely new type of diagnostic imaging which will allow to estimate, for example, a blood-groove or distribution of glucose by an organism.[1]
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