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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June 12, 2015 - A new molecular imaging agent has been demonstrated to find prostate cancer that has spread to other ...

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June 11, 2015 - At the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), June 6-10 ...

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June 8, 2015 - GE Healthcare announced that it has created a solution to make positron emission tomography (PET) tracers ...

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May 27, 2015 — Ipsen announced the signature of an agreement to acquire OctreoPharm Sciences, a private German life ...

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May 13, 2015 — Cancer Targeted Technology (CTT), announced that it was awarded a NIH two-year, $2 million Small Business ...

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<p>Nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission ...

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March 10, 2015 — The first annual financial results of Xofigo (radium-223 dichloride) from Bayer are in line with the ...

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January 30, 2015 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved for human evaluation a nanoparticle-based ...

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January 13, 2015 — Scientists at the Riken Center for Life Science Technologies, along with researchers from the AIST ...

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January 8, 2015 — Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "MediPoint: Nuclear Imaging - PET and SPECT ...

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A study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has identified for the first time changes in the ...

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September 25, 2014 — A new analysis of published studies found that FDG-PET technology is less accurate in diagnosing ...

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August 27, 2014 — Telik Inc., a clinical stage oncology drug development company that merged with MabVax Therapeutics ...

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August 5, 2014 — GE Healthcare announced its first integrated, simultaneous, time-of-flight (TOF) capable, whole-body ...

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July 30, 2014 — Information hidden in imaging tests could help doctors more accurately choose the radiation therapy dose ...

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June 10, 2014 – Taking their pick, biomedical researchers can now conduct five different imaging studies in one scan ...

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June 9, 2014 — At the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) Annual Meeting, GE Healthcare introduced ...

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The past year saw the release of several new, innovative technologies to improve nuclear imaging in both positron ...

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April 29, 2014 — GE Healthcare announced the first seven markets where Vizamyl (Flutemetamol F18 injection), a ...

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April 11, 2014 — A University of Colorado Cancer Center study presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the American ...

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