Imaging

Tracing and mapping

How PET/CT scans aid in early detection of diseases.

4min

Hildegard Kaulen

Published on March 28, 2022

PET/CT is a hybrid imaging procedure that visualizes metabolic processes. Since tumor cells have a different metabolism from normal cells, PET/CT is primarily used to aid in cancer diagnosis. PET/CT scans can also be used to evaluate Alzheimer’s disease and heart disease.

This short film shows how this hybrid procedure works and how metabolic processes are visualized.

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By Hildegard Kaulen

Hildegard Kaulen, PhD, is a molecular biologist. Following positions at Rockefeller University in New York and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, she now works as a freelance science journalist for newspapers and scientific magazines.