Sutter Roseville Medical Center’s nuclear medicine team works closely with the Northern California PET Imaging Center to provide mobile positron emission tomography (PET)/CT scanning service to its patients. The mobile capability gives patients the benefit of a convenient location.

PET scanning is increasingly used by doctors in three major areas:

• Heart disease: Helps doctors determine the condition of a patient’s heart muscle following a heart attack.
• Cancer: Provides doctors with an early diagnostic tool for spotting cancer development, recurrence or spread. Doctors also can often detect whether a growth is likely to be benign or malignant and can monitor how a patient is responding to certain treatment such as chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy.
• Neurological conditions: Recently, protocols have been developed by Medicare for selecting patient’s for imaging of Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia to guide treatment.

The hybrid of PET and CT imaging enhances the physician’s ability to accurately localize abnormalities. Patients at Sutter Roseville have the advantage of working with physicians who are nuclear medicine specialists who bring many years of experience to the process of image acquisition and interpretation.

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