ABSTRACT
When the December 4, 2000 issue of Time magazine listed PET/CT as one of the key innovations in 2000, it was not obvious that within about four years nearly 100% of all newly installed PET systems would be PET/CT devices. But PET/CT, developed by Townsend and his team, has changed the world of PET forever [1]. The combination of highly specific metabolic imaging with fine spatial and temporal resolution of the anatomic information led to enormous improvements in the field of PET imaging (and PET/CT), providing diagnostic information far beyond the individual results of either modality (Figure 10.1).
