4D Positron Emission Tomography/Computerised Tomography (PET/CT) in Liver Surgical Planning

Interventions: A standard whole body PET/CT scan will be performed first. This involves a patient lying on a scanning table for around 20 mins while breathing normally. The patient will recieve CT and a PET scan from the base of the brain to thighs.
Then at the conclusion of the whole body PET/CT scan the patient will be administered with IV contrast and asked to hold their breath while a high quality CT scan of the liver is acquired taking about 30 seconds. Once the contrast CT scan has concluded the patient will be instructed to breath normally again and a 10 minute gated PET scan of the liver will be acquired.
Primary outcome(s): To determine the number of positive liver metastases on contrast enhanced respiratory gated 4D PET/CT scanning compared to conventional ungated whole body PET/CT without contrast-enhanced CT.[At the time of PET/CT scan]
Study Design: Purpose: Diagnosis; Allocation: Non-randomised trial; Masking: Open (masking not used);Assignment: Single group;Type of endpoint: Efficacy