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CADTH » Search All Products » Environmental Scanning » Health Technology Update » Issue 8, January 2008 » Scanning the horizon

Scanning the horizon

Informing decision makers about emerging medical technologies

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PET scan of the lung and abdomen.

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CT scan of the same area.

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Fused PET/CT image of the lung and abdomen confirms the precise location of a lung cancer lesion that displays increased FDG uptake.

Image courtesy of the Great-West Life PET/CT Centre at the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg.


Our inaugural issue of Health Technology Update, in 2005, provided an update on positron emission tomography (PET) in Canada. Two years later, PET is still a hot topic here, partly because the technology is expensive to buy and operate and also because of the shortage of trained technologists and the complexities involved in licensing and producing the cyclotron-generated radiopharmaceuticals.

This issue of the Health Technology Update provides an update on the expanding distribution and funding of PET in Canada as well as information on the regulatory approval of several radiopharmaceutical products used in the scan.

We also want to tell you about a new gender-based knee implant and emerging treatments for congestive heart failure and bone cancer pain. As always, we hope you will find this issue informative and useful.