As the industry prepares to usher in this new era of precision health and personalized medicine, GE Healthcare is proud to offer innovative molecular imaging solutions to healthcare systems around the world.

Discovery with the Molecule Journey: Enabling Precision Health: The enablement of theranostics in prostate cancer care begins with the production of radioisotopes for use in diagnostic tracers – namely Gallium-68 PSMA-11 – which is administered to the patient, attaches to specific cancer cells, and releases radioactive emissions to provide detailed molecular information unique to each patient.


However, shortages of the generators that produce Gallium-68 historically have created serious challenges for clinicians and limited patient access. In response, GE Healthcare is proud to introduce a new Solid Target Platform for its PETtrace cyclotron which – in combination with its FASTlab 2 New Edition platform– can produce 100x the amount of Gallium compared to a generator for increased theranostics capabilities and access in prostate cancer patient care[iv].

While solid targets have been around for some time, they have traditionally been viewed as research tools and required complicated infrastructure and highly trained operators. Now, with GE Healthcare’s TRACERcenter Solutions and new PETtrace Solid Target Platform, healthcare systems can more easily access the equipment, tracers and staff training necessary to deliver a more cost-effective, personalized solution.

Diagnosis: Accurately Staging & Quantifying Disease: To read the emissions released by the Gallium-68 PSMA-11 tracer, the patient must be imaged using a highly sensitive PET/CT scanner. This technology provides the clinician detailed information that is used to better understand the structure and function of each patient’s tissue and disease state to help form personalized therapy recommendations. The more sensitive the PET/CT, the more accurate the images and quantification.

To this end, GE Healthcare is now shipping its Discovery MI Gen 2 premium digital PET/CT system, which provides next-level digital detection with an axial field of view (FOV) scalable up to 30 centimeters to achieve a 125 percent increase in sensitivity[v]. This helps translate to 33 percent improvement in scan times or dose amounts[vi].

These capabilities are further supported by Q.Clear, which offers up to 2x improvement in both image quality (SNR) and quantitation accuracy (SUV[vii]), and MotionFree for up to 67 percent improvement in lesion volume measurements, helping inform clinicians’ prostate cancer therapy recommendations[viii].

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