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To: Taki who wrote (121244)	10/18/2003 12:47:06 PM
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POSC.065.News I see on Saturday.Comments? B: Whole-Body Cell Imaging Available in Ogden, Utah ( Standard-Ex miner - Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News ) B: Whole-Body Cell Imaging Available in Ogden, Utah ( Standard-Examiner - Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News ) OGDEN, Utah, Oct 18, 2003 (Standard-Examiner - Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News via COMTEX) -- Patients no longer have to travel to Salt Lake City for a specialized test. Ogden Regional Medical Center can now provide whole-body imaging with its new Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner., Each Thursday, patients can receive the clinical and diagnostic test for cancer, neurological disorders and heart disease. "It's pretty exciting stuff," said John Diemel, director of radiology at the hospital. "This is all about the patients. Keeping them happy and close to home so they don't have to travel to Salt Lake, especially when they are sick, is one of our goals." The scanner is a medical imaging tool that assists doctors in finding disease in the body. It produces digital pictures that can identify many forms of cancer, damaged heart tissue and even brain disorders such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and epilepsy. "It's different than a CAT scan or MRI," Diemel said. "It actually detects changes on a cellular level." Simply put, the machine can detect abnormalities in cellular activity, before there is any anatomical change, earlier and more accurately than some other tests. It can also tell if a tumor is benign or malignant. "Cells are made out of sugar," Diemel said. "When a person comes in for the test, we inject them with a sugar-based compound that travels through their body." The glucose collects in the organs and tissues and the scanner's cameras detect the gamma rays emitted from the patient. Those rays are turned into electrical signals, or hot spots, and are generated into 3-D images. If there is an abnormality, there will be stronger signals in that area of the body. "In a person with cancer or another disease, we are able to measure it and track it to see if he changes in size," Diemel said. "PET can also give us an idea of what stage of cancer a person is in and whether it has spread to others parts of the body." Diemel said doctors typically make appointments for their patients to have the test. He also said the hospital can serve most people in the community. "This is really technical and progressive," he said. "It's exciting because this is how the MRI machine was 10 years ago. Now there's one in every hospital." By Jamie Lampros To see more of the Standard-Examiner, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to standard.net (c) 2003, Standard-Examiner, Ogden, Utah. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News.