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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March 24, 2011 – A new study by Craig Thiessen, M.D., director of radiology for West Houston Radiology L.L.P. and North ...

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Videos | Molecular Imaging

An interview with Peter Herscovitch, M.D., chief of the positron emission tomography (PET) department, senior attending ...

Time March 22, 2011
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Videos | PET Imaging

An interview with Peter Herscovitch, M.D., chief of the positron emission tomography (PET) department, senior attending ...

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March 11, 2011 – U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. today reached agreement on a ...

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March 10, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) for ...

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March 4, 2011 – For the first time, quantitative—not qualitative—data analysis has demonstrated that time-of-flight (TOF ...

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March 3, 2011 – A positron emission mammography (PEM) scanner has been launched at two radiology conferences in Vienna ...

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March 3, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared a whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) ...

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February 8, 2011 — The only direct National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) traceable dose calibrator ...

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February 4, 2011 – Positron emission tomography (PET) can image metabolic changes following treatment with the protein ...

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February 3, 2011 – Beginning Feb. 7, 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will reimburse sites ...

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January 21, 2011 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory ...

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January 3, 2011 – A registered radiopharmaceutical product has received a positive opinion for the mutual recognition of ...

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December 1, 2010 – One of the world's first whole-body MR/PET systems was introduced at the RSNA 2010 meeting. The ...

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November 30, 2010 - Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging/Molecular Breast Imaging (BSGI/MBI) is gaining momentum as a standard ...

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November 22, 2010 – A new whole-body, integrated magnetic resonance imaging/positron emission tomography (MRI/PET) ...

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November 17, 2010 — A five-year, $10 million grant supporting a leading-edge molecular imaging center at UCLA has been ...

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November 15, 2010 — The Radiology journal released new data from an National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored ...

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November 10, 2010 – During RSNA 2010, GE Healthcare will announce the availability of the Discovery NM/CT 670, an ...

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