Whole-body PET/CT for a child: 5 minutes, no sedation - AuntMinnie

Danish nuclear medicine physicians recently tested a new whole-body PET/CT scanner with a five-minute image acquisition time and no sedation on a 17-month-old girl to resolve a case of suspected incomplete Kawasaki disease.

With the mother present and singing to the child to calm her, the girl was positioned arms-free in a vacuum fix pillow supplemented with light fixation across her body using a Velcro belt. Low-dose C… [+2497 chars]

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