The world's first medical image scanner that can capture a 3-D picture of the whole human body at once has produced its first scans. The researchers have named this total-body scanner as “Explorer” and expect that it will exert countless applications, from improving diagnostics to tracking disease progression to researching new drug therapies. Explorer is a combined positron emission tomography (PET) and X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner that can scan the entire body at the same time.
Because the machine captures radiation far more efficiently than other scanners, it can produce an image in as less as 1 second. The chief of nuclear medicine said that “Through Explorer, we could see features that we just don’t see on regular PET scans and the dynamic sequence showing the radiotracer moving around the body in 3 dimensions over time. Further, the researchers said that they expect…
