PET Imaging Newsroom

From: Aunt Minnie: Should coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring be a routine part of PET/CT stress testing for assessing an individual's risk of heart disease? Yes, according to researchers from Utah who explained why in a Saturday presentation at ...

From: Aunt Minnie: Researchers have developed a new FDG-PET/CT-based approach to better monitor the efficacy of immunotherapy for patients with metastatic melanoma, according to a study published in the March issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The immunotherapy ...

From: Aunt Minnie: Data from a combination of FDG-PET and functional MRI (fMRI) scans revealed the extent to which alcohol intake can alter patterns of energy use and neuronal activity in the brain, according to an article published online ...

From: SNMMI: Physicians may soon have a new way to measure the efficacy or failure of hormone therapy for breast cancer patients, according to new research published in the February issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Researchers report ...

From: Aunt Minnie: Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have developed a PET imaging technique using a carbon-11-based radiotracer that confirmed an association between post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) and widespread inflammation in the brain. The findings could lead to more effective treatment ...

From: Health Imaging: With the help of PET scans, researchers have found women’s brains appear to be three years younger than men’s. The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may explain why women remain mentally sharper longer ...

From: DOTmed: Although relatively rare in the United States, and accounting for fewer than 5 percent of tuberculosis cases worldwide, TB of the brain—or tuberculosis meningitis (TBM)—is often deadly, always hard to treat, and a particular threat to young children ...

From: Aunt Minnie: Can clinicians use as little as 10% of the conventional FDG dose and still produce diagnostic-quality images to detect breast cancer? Absolutely. It's feasible using a time-of-flight (TOF) imaging technique with PET/MRI, according to a study published ...

From: Society of Nuclear Medicine And Molecular Imaging: While liver biopsies are powerful and reliable, they are also invasive, painful, limited and subject to complications. These effects may soon be a thing of the past for some patients thanks to ...