Fast Growth Seen in PET Procedures
Aug 4, 2003 — DES PLAINES, Ill., Aug. 4 -- An estimated 456,200 positron emission tomography (PET) procedures were performed in the US in 2002 -- an increase of 79 percent from 255,300 procedures in 2001, according to a market report by IMV Medical Information Division, a marketing research and consulting firm. The PET procedures were performed in 1080 hospital and non-hospital sites, using fixed PET scanners, including dedicated PET or PET/computed tomography (CT) scanners, mobile PET scanners or nuclear...