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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April 13, 2012 — GE Healthcare announced the preliminary results of two Phase 3 studies of its investigational positron ...

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April 11, 2012 - Siemens Healthcare is the first company worldwide to announce a complete integrated diagnostic imaging ...

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April 9, 2012 — After witnessing a downtrend for several years, revenues in the U.S. nuclear medicine and positron ...

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April 9, 2012 — New research published in the April issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine reveals that systemic ...

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April 6, 2012 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first diagnostic agent to image Alzheimer’s ...

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April 6, 2012 — Positron Corp. announced the approval of its Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) manufacturing and ...

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March 22, 2012 – Addressing concerns over radiation from cardiac imaging and procedures, the American College of ...

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March 16, 2012 — Novelos Therapeutics Inc. announced that the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, a medical ...

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March 9, 2012 — Researchers from Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Boca Raton, Fla., showed that the FDG dose for positron ...

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March 6, 2012 — Imaging amino acid transporters with positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has been ...

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March 5, 2012 — SciFluor Life Sciences announced an agreement with Harvard University that extends its license of ...

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February 16, 2012 — Siemens Healthcare announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently cleared the ...

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February 13, 2012 — In two new studies featured in the February issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, researchers ...

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January 30, 2012 — Positron Corp., a molecular imaging healthcare company specializing in the field of nuclear ...

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January 20, 2012 – Nuclear cardiology imaging company Positron Corp. this week acquired Manhattan Isotope Technology LLC ...

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January 13, 2012 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is updating healthcare professionals and the public about ...

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January 12, 2012 — UT-Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, has acquired and installed a high-resolution ...

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January 6, 2012 – Bracco Diagnostics said it plans to close out the recall process for its CardioGen-82 cardiac ...

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January 5, 2012 – During RSNA 2011, TeraRecon Inc. demonstrated a suite of innovative tools for its iNtuition solution ...

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