Marlette Regional Hospital (MRH) is proud to offer Symbia T SPECT/CT services close to home. This unique advanced nuclear medicine technology is the first of its kind in our area, and there are less than ten in the state of Michigan.
SPECT/CT combines the functional imaging of single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and the anatomical imaging of computed tomography (CT) into one scan. Director of Diagnostic Imaging Lora Fridline, RDMS states, “These combined technologies make it possible to improve detection of diseases throughout the body. As a result, SPECT/CT provides radiologists greater diagnostic confidence than ever before.”
Producing highly-defined 3D images from inside the human body, SPECT/CT allows physicians to pinpoint the exact location, size, nature, and extent of cancer or disease—anywhere in the body, with only one exam.
Unique to our region, SPECT/CT also allows for additional patient testing that was not possible before. Fridline added, “We are able to offer new technology as well as additional testing, such as octreoscans, breast scintigraphy, and lymphoscintigraphy for cancer imaging (sentinel node).”
Primary SPECT/CT applications include: diagnosis of infections involving bones and joints, carcinoids or metastases, hyper functioning of the parathyroid glands, localizing sites of infection within the soft tissue structures of the body, and detecting occult GI tract bleeding sites. This examination also enhances sentinel lymph node detection in patients with diseases such as breast cancer or malignant melanoma. MRH Radiologist Peter Clive, MD adds, “The addition of CT information to the nuclear information also allows the scans to be performed more quickly with greater accuracy.”
Diagnostic Imaging
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