CT-based calculations improve accuracy of PET for cancer patients
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - 21:31
in Health & Medicine
Cancer patients often experience significant fluctuations in weight and lean body mass (LBM). Neglecting to account for these changes can prevent clinicians from obtaining precise data from molecular imaging, but a new method of measuring LBM takes changes in individual body composition into account for better staging of disease and therapy monitoring.