How much does a PET-CT device cost

Till August 2020, the price ranges from $10 million to $30 million.

PET-CT is a common clinical means of examination, is composed of two parts, one is CT, one is PET, PET is molecular imaging, is through the injection of imaging agent into the body, and then through the CT to show the distribution of blood in the body.

PET-CT is generally used more in clinical tumor diagnosis and evaluation, the price of each unit of CT is not exactly the same, the charges are different, but generally will be in the seven or eight thousand yuan to ten thousand yuan, roughly this is the case.

Because PET-CT can diagnose the size and location of the tumor more clearly. It is also indispensable that after the tumor is medicated, a therapeutic assessment can be made on the improvement. Therefore, PET-CT is an important diagnostic and assessment tool in clinical oncology.

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PET-CT itself exists radioactive metabolites, it is recommended that users stay away from infants, young children, pregnant women, and their families within 20 hours after the examination, because the examination of the more radioactive material has been attenuated. However, when the user returns to the hospital room or home, the dose of radiation still exists and needs to be eliminated from the body physiologically, usually after 20 hours to fully attenuate.

To avoid the user to walk around and go in and out of public **** occasions or places where the flow of people is more concentrated, the normal examination and treatment should be carried out in the ward, the impact on the surrounding medical staff is relatively small.

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