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ABSTRACT
Domestic health care institutions
possess different high-technology diagnostic and therapeutic equipment.
As only positron emission tomography (PET) is missing, the arguments
for the establishment of the National PET Centre should be considered.
The standard equipment of such a centre includes: a mini-cyclotron,
radiopharmaceutical laboratory and PET scanner. The universal gamma
cameras with coincident detection (CD) are used as additional or
alternative imaging devices. Recently, combined PET/CT scanners
have been introduced.
PET is based on application of the radiopharmaceuticals which consist
of different biologically important substances or their analogues,
with positron emitters incorporated (F,
C,
N,
O).
By imaging the patients using the particularly designed devices,
the tomograms and quantitative parameters of perfusion and different
aspects of cellular metabolism and functioning are obtained. In
such a way one can also get an insight into the basic biological
characteristics of different pathological tissues. Thus, PET provides
great possibilities for the exact diagnostics, especially of oncological,
neurological and cardiological diseases.
The PET Centre in Belgrade would be appropriately located to deliver
mostly used 18F-deoxyglucose (FDG) to the other domestic nuclear
medical institutions, which would in perspective have the gamma
cameras with CD option. There are technical facilities for integration
of PET with other tomographic techniques into an information telemedical
system. The patients from the neighboring countries might also use
the PET Centre services.
Key words: nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography (PET),
high-technology medical equipment, health care service organization
Keywords: nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography (PET), high-technology medical equipment, health care service organization
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Correspondence to:
Vladimir B. Obradovic,MD, PhD
Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade
Visegradska 26, 11000 Belgrade
e_mail: vladimir.obradovic@kcs.ac.yu
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