Florida Hospital Is First In Central Florida To Offer PET/CT Tuesday July 23, 2002
New technology gives doctors complete view of cancer.
Jennifer Kolbinger never knew she had cancer until a sore throat lead her to the doctor’s office. The frightening news that followed… “You have Hodgkin’s Disease and we will have to remove your lymph node”… she will never forget. Now, at age 34, just 3 months after her diagnosis, doctors at Florida Hospital will use revolutionary new technology, called PET/CT, to find out if the chemotherapy is indeed riding her body of the deadly cancer.
Florida Hospital is the first in Central Florida and only the 55th in the world to install the GE Discovery LS technology. This PET/CT equipment is a major advancement in imaging technology that aids doctors in early detection and diagnosis of even the smallest of lesions – as small as six millimeters – and more accurately pinpoint their locations.
PET/CT combines the cellular information from PET (Positron Emission Technology), which reveals lesions, with the anatomic information from CT (Computed Tomography), which provides the lesion location, to give physicians an exceptional image that would normally take two separate scanners more than twice the time to provide.
