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New England PET Imaging System was established in April 2000 as New England’s first community hospital-based provider of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) services. Our mission is to provide patient-focused care in a personal and friendly setting, offering the highest levels of medical care and quality service. This is evidenced in New England PET being accredited by the American College of Radiology (ACR). In the fall of 2006, we began operation of a state-of-the-art Siemens Biograph 16-slice PET/CT scanner at our Methuen facility. We have followed with the installation of a second mobile PET/CT that serves our Manchester, NH, Newburyport, MA, and Haverhill, MA locations.
New England PET Imaging System has five sites to serve the needs of patients within the region:
All of New England PET Imaging System sites participate in the National Oncologic PET Registry. Under the PET Registry, essentially all cancers and indications are covered for Medicare patients. (See this page for both html and pdf versions of the table of covered cancers and indications.) Significantly, under the PET Registry, FDG-PET's use for treatment and therapy monitoring is covered.
About PET
PET is a breakthrough medical imaging technology. While tests such as CT and MRI provide information on anatomy and structure, PET examines metabolic process within the body. By focusing on the biochemistry of organs and tissues within the body, PET can often detect disease before anatomic changes result and which become evident on conventional imaging tests such as CT, MRI, or X-ray.
PET has received wide clinical acceptance for a variety of clinical applications in oncology (cancer care), cardiology, and neurology. This is further reflected in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ongoing expansion of Medicare coverage for PET for the early detection, staging, and monitoring of disease.
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