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Cancer patients to benefit from new diagnostic device at NTUH (2014/03/11)

Today National Taiwan University Hospital introduced a new device that combines positron emission tomography with the nuclear magnetic resonance technology used in MRIs. This cutting-edge tool will assist doctors in making cancer diagnoses and deciding on treatments. 

Traditional NMR technology to track cancer cells in organs and PET to explore the possibility of metastasis are both part of this device. Before NTUH’s ribbon cutting ceremony today, the tool was already put to use. 

Tiffany Shih
NTUH Dep’t of Radiology
Already at least two or three patients have had their original plans for surgery or therapy changed after we tested them using this MRI/PET scan device.

According to NTUH, the device can increase the accuracy of cancer diagnoses from 80 percent to 98 percent. It also lowers radiation exposure to as little as a third of normal PET scans.

Tiffany Shih
NTUH Dep’t of Radiology
Original PET scans also use computed tomography. This new MRI/PET scan device does not include the radiation of the CT, so exposure drops by at least half.

The technique costs patients NT$10,000 at a minimum and is not yet covered by national health insurance. 

正子兼磁振

臺大醫院今天為整合正子造影跟核磁共振兩種功能的新設備磁振正子掃描儀剪綵活，正子造影跟核磁共振，是過去各大醫院追蹤、檢查癌症的兩大利器。預計能有效提高準確率，進而提升抗癌成功率與存活率！

眼前這台磁振正子掃描儀，整合傳統癌症器官診斷的核磁共振，以及癌症轉移追蹤的正子掃描功能。臺大醫院在今天對外舉行剪綵活動前，已經開始使用。 

[[臺大醫院影像醫學部主任 施庭芳]]
“這段時間已經有至少兩三位病患，已經因為這個磁振正子掃描，改變了他原來預計要開刀，或是原來要做治療的方式”

臺大號稱新設備能夠讓癌症檢驗的準確率由80%提高到98%，還能使原本正子掃描所產生的輻射量，降低到原有劑量的三分之一。

[[臺大醫院影像醫學部主任 施庭芳]]
“原來的正子掃描，因為有加電腦斷層，新的這個磁振正子掃描儀呢，因為它沒有電腦斷層的劑量，所以(輻射量)就至少少了一半”

不過目前這項技術還沒有健保給付，作一次至少得花上萬元，並不便宜。

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