PET Imaging

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear imaging technology (also referred to as molecular imaging) that enables visualization of metabolic processes in the body. The basics of PET imaging is that the technique detects pairs of gamma rays emitted indirectly by a positron-emitting radionuclide (also called radiopharmaceuticals, radionuclides or radiotracer). The tracer is injected into a vein on a biologically active molecule, usually a sugar that is used for cellular energy. PET systems have sensitive detector panels to capture gamma ray emissions from inside the body and use software to plot to triangulate the source of the emissions, creating 3-D computed tomography images of the tracer concentrations within the body.

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Analog is approximate. Digital is specific. Therein lies the fundamental difference between digital PET and its analog ...

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October 10, 2018 — The Center for Quantitative Cancer Imaging at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of ...

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PET/CT can be indispensible as a diagnostic and prognostic tool; in the assessment of patient response to therapy and ...

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September 27, 2018 — Advancements in healthcare technology, particularly in the surgery category, have led to an ...

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Technology | PET-CT

September 26, 2018 — Bruker recently announced the introduction of the new preclinical PET/CT Si78 scanner for whole ...

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September 5, 2018 — Eli Lilly and Co. and Avid Radiopharmaceuticals Inc. announced a Phase 3 study of positron emission ...

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August 24, 2018 — In a small study of military personnel who had suffered head trauma and had reported memory and mood ...

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August 9, 2018 — In metastatic breast cancer, prognosis and treatment is largely influenced by estrogen receptor (ER) ...

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August 3, 2018 — Researchers have discovered a new nuclear medicine test that could improve care of patients with type 1 ...

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July 17, 2018 — A new way to examine stress and inflammation in the heart will help Parkinson’s researchers test new ...

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Technology | Nuclear Imaging

July 16, 2018 — At the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), June 23-26 ...

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June 29, 2018 — In the battle against metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer, studies have demonstrated a high ...

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June 28, 2018 — At the 2018 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting, June 23-26, in ...

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June 25, 2018 — IMV, part of the Science and Medicine Group and a market research and business intelligence provider to ...

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June 21, 2018 — Siemens Healthineers will announce U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of four new system ...

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June 13, 2018 — A recently presented investigational clinical trial evaluated the impact of 18F fluciclovine positron ...

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June 5, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Biograph Vision, a new positron emission ...

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May 21, 2018 — The Istituto Oncologico Veneto (IOV) in Padua, Italy, has acquired MILabs’ latest-generation Versatile ...

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News | PET Imaging

May 17, 2018 — A novel positron emission tomography (PET) tracer developed by Korean researchers can visualize joint ...

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May 11, 2018 — A team led by Johns Hopkins University Researchers has discovered that protein clumps appear to ...

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