PET Imaging Newsroom

From diagnosticimaging.com: Molecular imaging, since its inception, has set out to revolutionize diagnostic imaging. However, a myriad of challenges continue to stand in the way of this revolution. Chief among them has been poor image quality, limited quantitation accuracy, and ...

From cardiovascularbusiness.com: A great evolution of the payment structure for imaging procedures is occurring. Soon, payers will reward cost-effective, high-quality procedures, while both healthcare providers and patients increasingly will demand efficient, diagnostically accurate nuclear cardiology procedures with low radiation exposure ...

From cardiovascularbusiness.com: At Brigham and Women's Hospital, like many hospitals and medical centers across the country, cardiac PET is emerging as the go-to imaging modality for a growing list of clinical scenarios ...

From cardiovascularbusiness.com: Picking the right imaging exam at the right time has always been a challenge. But experts recently offered a blueprint to make the choice easier when it comes to using cardiac PET to assess coronary artery disease, myocardial ...

From: diagnosticimaging.com: PET imaging can accurately identify and differentiate between cardiac amyloidosis and hypertensive heart disease, according to a study in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Researchers from Australia performed a small study to determine the feasibility of using 18F-florbetaben PET ...

From healthimaging.com: Harvard researchers have developed a novel PET radiotracer that can reveal genetic expression, or lack thereof, in the brain enzymes called histone deacetylases (HDACs) ...

From: healthimaging.com: The addition of combination PET/CT examinations to the radiologist’s toolbox represents one of the most significant advancements in oncological imaging in the past decade. So what does the future hold for hybrid imaging? ...