
Statistics from the World Health Organization or WHO show that lung cancer is the number one cause of death in all cancers.

Medical imaging is an essential part of current medical care because medical images help diagnose diseases, determine their stage, and monitor treatment effectively. A highly advanced technology in the medical field of nuclear medicine is the disease diagnosis using PET/CT machines or Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography, which is sometimes shortly referred to as PET.