September 16, 2011 — Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have for the first time used several imaging ...
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.
September 14, 2011 – The Delaware Insurance Commissioner’s announcement that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware (BCBSD) ...
Several positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agents are being developed to visualize Alzheimer’s disease in the ...
Digital technology is opening remarkable opportunities for clinical positron emission tomography (PET) about which ...
September 8, 2011 — Naviscan announced it obtained CE Mark approval for its high-resolution positron emission tomography ...
August 23, 2011— UltraSPECT of Haifa, Israel, announced the sale of more than 10 of its wide beam reconstruction (WBR) ...
August 4, 2011 – Published last week in The American Journal of Roentgenology, researchers from Swedish Cancer Institute ...
Precision can have an enormous impact on patients. From diagnosis to patient monitoring (see “How Digital PET/CT Can ...
August 2, 2011 – Two new studies published in the August 2011 issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) provide ...
August 2, 2011 – An estimated 1.7 million clinical positron emission tomography (PET) patient studies were performed in ...
Typically, the only radiation facing travelers is from the airport scanners they must walk through to board airplanes ...
PET is getting ready to venture outside oncology, cardiology and mainstream neurology. High on the list of new clinical ...
July 26, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting healthcare professionals to stop using CardioGen ...
Wielding an assortment of high-energy photons, ultrasonic waves and radiofrequencies, radiology has made a practice of ...
July 19, 2011 – The study "Use of Florbetapir-PET for Imaging beta-amyloid Pathology," published in the Jan. 19, 2011 ...
Analog is approximate. Digital is specific. Therein lies the fundamental difference between digital PET and its analog ...
Despite its first commercial appearance in the late 1970s, positron emission tomograpnhy (PET) did not begin gaining ...
The new imaging modality of positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was introduced in the U ...
Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) President George Segall, M.D., chief of the nuclear medicine service at the VA Palo ...
June 14, 2011 – Definitive proof of an adverse effect of chronic marijuana use revealed at SNM’s 58th annual meeting ...
June 10, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Siemens Healthcare 510(k) clearance for the Biograph ...
June 10, 2011 — At the Society of Nuclear Medicine’s 58th Annual Meeting in San Antonio, June 4-8, Cardinal Health ...
June 8, 2011 — GE Healthcare announced the release of its Optima PET/CT 560, which offers efficiency and investment ...
June 7, 2011 — Research presented at SNM’s 58th annual meeting is taking targeted molecular imaging to a new level by ...
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