Excited to share results from the EQUIP study, just presented at
@SNM_MI in Los Angeles.
#SNMMI26
Last November, we installed the world's first
@GEHealthCare Omni Total Body PET/CT - a 128cm long-axis field-of-view system with next-generation digital detectors. These are the first clinical results from anywhere in the world on this device.
The short version: better images, in a fraction of the time.
We enrolled 25 patients in a direct intra-individual comparison - same patient, same tracer injection, scanned first on a conventional PET/CT and then immediately on the Total Body system. Tracers included F-18 FDG, Ga-PSMA & DOTATATE, F-18 DCFPyL, and I-124.
Striking results:: 83% reduction in acquisition time (2.5 min vs 15 min) - with superior image quality, and significantly better sharpness and lesion conspicuity. Remarkably, in 68% of patients, reviewers identified small lesions on Total Body PET that would have been missed on conventional imaging.
Congratulations to Dr Alicia Corlett for an awesome oral presentation, Dr Cameron Pain,
@pj_physics and all the co-investigators. Thanks to
@Cancer_Research ,
@NIFAus,
@unimelb and
@PCF_Science for supporting this research. This was an investigator-initiated trial, funded by GE HealthCare. Link to abstract and images in comments..