Positron emission tomography-computed tomography fusion scanning/Definition
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A multi-modal medical imaging technique that scans the patient with X-ray computed tomography and positron emission tomography scanners mounted on the same gantry, so the images from both systems are in the same anatomical plane; the two methods complement one another, but sometimes additional analysis of a pure CT scan, occasionally in another plane, is necessary to rule out certain artifacts