CANON MEDICAL AND NCC START CLINICAL RESEARCH OF NEXT-GENERATION CT SYSTEM

Using the first Japanese-produced PCCT system approved in December 2022, Canon Medical, the NCC Exploratory Oncology Research & Clinical Trial Center (EPOC), and the NCC Hospital East have started joint research and a clinical trial that aims to develop new diagnostic methods and investigate their clinical value by evaluating image data obtained using the PCCT system installed at EPOC.

The basic principles of PCCT can be traced back to technologies developed in Japan's advanced space program. The anticipated advantages of PCCT include significantly reduced radiation exposure compared to conventional CT (more patient-friendly), improved detectability of pathological changes thanks to higher resolution imaging (more detailed), and more precise discrimination and identification of various materials in the body, as well as tissue characterization and malignancy assessment based on quantitative image analysis (more precise). These advances should lead to improved diagnostic accuracy throughout all phases of patient care in the field of oncology, from prevention to diagnosis, to evaluation of treatment effects, and to long-term prognosis.

Based on the results of joint research with EPOC and NCC Hospital East to investigate the clinical applications of PCCT, which began in 2020, a number of studies have been presented at scientific meetings. The unprecedented basic performance of PCCT is generating excitement in all parts of the world, as was clearly demonstrated by the CyPos Prize awarded at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Radiological Technology.

The NCC Hospital East will be reporting study results and presenting lectures at the 82nd Congress of the Japan Radiological Society and the 79th Congress of the Japanese Society of Radiological Technology to be held at Pacifico Yokohama from April 13 through April 16.



Clinical images of suspected lung cancer obtained by PCCT

a: Chest CT with a slice thickness of 5 mm
b: Thin-slice CT image
c: 3D image of the entire lung with the lesion shown in yellow
d: Coronal contrast CT image from the chest to upper abdomen

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