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 8, 2014 — GE Healthcare received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance of its Q.Clear ...

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April 7, 2014 — DICOM Grid has been contracted by Greater Houston Healthconnect to electronically deliver medical images ...

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April 1, 2014 — New quantitative data suggests that 30 percent of the surgeries performed for non-small cell lung cancer ...

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April 1, 2014 — Scientists at the Riken Center for Life Science Technologies in Kobe, Japan, have used PET (positron ...

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March 20, 2014 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a third beta-amyloid plaque positron emission ...

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March 4, 2014 — Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA), a growing international player in molecular nuclear medicine ...

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March 4, 2014 — DR Systems exhibited capabilities designed to increase the quality and efficiency of patient services at ...

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February 27, 2014 — People who are dementia-free but have two parents with Alzheimer's disease may show signs of the ...

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Feature | Pablo R. Ros, M.D., MPH, Ph.D.

The advent of hybrid PET/MR in 2011 brought the promise of vastly improved imaging technology in the form of a new ...

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What was once diagnostic imaging is on track to becoming much more. Radiology is on the verge of a new era in which its ...

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January 23, 2014 — An international research team at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is testing a sugar-based ...

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December 24, 2013 — GE Healthcare showcased at the Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting (RSNA 2013) a ...

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The pursuit of an imaging tool to visualize the protein alpha-synuclein, the hallmark pathology of Parkinson's disease ...

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Piramal Imaging announced today the European Union's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended ...

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December 13, 2013 — Philips unveiled the Vereos PET/CT fully digital positron emission tomography/computed tomography ...

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Greg Freiherr speaks from the show floor on day three of the 2013 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North ...

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December 3, 2013 — Imaging with the molecular imaging tracer 18F-FDOPA can help distinguish radiation-induced lesions ...

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November 25, 2013 — The global market for medical imaging devices is estimated to be at $30.2 billion, forecast to be ...

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November 20, 2013 — The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug ...

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November 8, 2013 — Zevacor Molecular, a healthcare firm that manufactures and distributes positron emissions tomography ...

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