
New House bill calls for change in CMS definition of radiopharmaceuticals

MITA APPLAUDS INTRODUCTION OF H.R. 6948, THE MEDICARE DIAGNOSTIC RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL PAYMENT EQUITY ACT OF 2018
From: Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance: The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) – the leading organization and collective voice of medical imaging equipment, radiopharmaceutical manufacturers, innovators, and product developers – applauds Congressmen Holding and Moulton for introducing legislation that ...

Tau PET Tracer Called Accurate for Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
From: MedPage Today: Positron emission tomography (PET) quantification of tau protein aggregates in the brain with an 18F-labeled tracer called flortaucipir discriminated Alzheimer's disease from other neurodegenerative diseases with strong though imperfect accuracy, a large, multicenter study found. Among more than ...

PET with CT twice as likely to change cervical cancer treatment plans
From: Health Imaging: Using PET imaging in addition to conventional CT imaging for women with locally advanced cervical cancer may identify more detailed malignancies and change treatment plans, according to research published online Sept. 14 in JAMA Network Open. The researchers found that both modalities led ...

What happens when cancer patients receive PET-CT instead of CT alone?

New PET imaging method may yield benefits over FDG for detecting certain cancers

NCI Expert Stresses Importance of Multimodal Imaging in Prostate Cancer

Nuclear PET imaging method developed for tumor detection
