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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July 20, 2007 - Naviscan PET Systems Inc., a privately held company specializing in the development of high-resolution ...

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GE Healthcare's Discovery Dimension is designed to help clinicians advance toward the goal of motion-free PET/CT imaging ...

Time July 09, 2007
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Henry Wagner, M.D., one of the founders of nuclear medicine, announced the 2007 Image of the Year Title was a PET image ...

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Visualizing motion is changing the way oncologists and medical physicists treat cancer patients. Thanks to multislice CT ...

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Siemens introduced at SNM its HD PET, a technology which is designed to deliver superior detection of small lesions ...

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July 9, 2007 – The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Breast Cancer Research Program has granted $1.36 ...

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July 9, 2007 - A study published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine reports that current PET-CT scanners with standard ...

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July 2, 2007 - Believed to be the first study to demonstrate cost savings for radiology management with statistical ...

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June 27, 2007 - The University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) and Royal Philips Electronics have developed a ...

Time June 26, 2007
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The Merge PET/CT Workstation software is designed to readily accommodate standard methods used by radiologists to read ...

Time June 21, 2007
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June 15, 2007 - Avid Radiopharmaceuticals Inc. announced that a preclinical study presented at at the Society of Nuclear ...

Time June 14, 2007
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GE Healthcare has received FDA clearance for the next-generation volume PET/CT application, PET VCAR (Volume Computer ...

Time June 10, 2007
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June 8, 2007 – According to an Australian study released during the 54th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear ...

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June 5, 2007 - IBA Molecular announced the launch of www.getaPETscan.com, a new patient-focused Web Site that aims to ...

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June 5, 2007 - Henry Wagner, M.D., one of the founders of nuclear medicine, announced the 2007 Image of the Year Title ...

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June 5, 2007 - GE Healthcare introduced at SNM a new version of the company’s Discovery Dimension designed to help ...

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June 5, 2007 - Naviscan took the stage at SNM to showcase the PEM Flex Solo II, an organ specific, high resolution PET ...

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June 5, 2007 - Siemens introduced at SNM its HD PET, a technology which is designed to deliver superior detection of ...

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June 5, 2007 - Cardinal Health announced that it has launched a searchable online database of PET and PET/CT imaging ...

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June 5, 2007 - Moving from computer simulation to patient images, researchers are now demonstrating the benefits that ...

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