Tata Medical Center will install a Siemens Biograph 64 PET/CT (Positron Emission Tomography / Computed Tomography) scanner, a high resolution medical imaging device used for early cancer detection and improved diagnoses.

The scanner, Siemens' latest technology and one of the first to be installed in India, provides high resolution images that allow doctors to pinpoint the precise location of abnormalities as small as 3-6 millimeters in size.

Tata Medical Center will be the first hospital in India to offer Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT). IGRT is a new technology for radiotherapy treatment of cancer that was first introduced in Europe.

IGRT is the most accurate method for targeting radiation to the cancer tumor. Imaging technology is used to identify the exact location of a tumor prior to treatment, but during the administration of treatment the tumor can move slightly, for example, as the patient breathes.

IGRT "locks" the radiation on target, reducing the risk of damaging healthy tissue surrounding the tumor, and allowing more concentrated dosages of radiation to destroy the cancer.