New device to revolutionise cancer scans

Cancer patients are set to benefit from a new PET scanner, the first of its kind in Australia which will revolutionise the way tumours are targeted and tracked.

Conventional PET scans require patients to lie on a bed for 20 to 30 minutes, but the new whole-body imaging machine can perform scans in a quarter of that time.

Instead of having to take a series of images, the scanner can capture the body's tissues and organs from head to toe in one single scan. 

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