September 28, 2011 – Researchers have a new weapon in their arsenal to diagnose and treat traumatic brain injury (TBI) ...
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.
September 16, 2011 — Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have for the first time used several imaging ...
September 14, 2011 – The Delaware Insurance Commissioner’s announcement that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware (BCBSD) ...
Digital technology is opening remarkable opportunities for clinical positron emission tomography (PET) about which ...
September 13, 2011 – Mediso Medical Imaging Systems announced at the World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) the ...
Several positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agents are being developed to visualize Alzheimer’s disease in the ...
September 8, 2011 — Naviscan announced it obtained CE Mark approval for its high-resolution positron emission tomography ...
Precision can have an enormous impact on patients. From diagnosis to patient monitoring (see “How Digital PET/CT Can ...
September 1, 2011 — Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital (HKSH) has selected GE Healthcare’s tri-modality imaging system ...
August 23, 2011— UltraSPECT of Haifa, Israel, announced the sale of more than 10 of its wide beam reconstruction (WBR) ...
August 18, 2011 – The Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston, Texas, and Philips Healthcare have collaborated ...
PET is getting ready to venture outside oncology, cardiology and mainstream neurology. High on the list of new clinical ...
August 18, 2011 - A new KLAS report, "Positron Emission Tomography (PET)/Computed Tomography (CT) 2011-New Technologies ...
In the yesteryears of over-optimism, when medical imaging was in its heyday, magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) was ...
August 4, 2011 – Published last week in The American Journal of Roentgenology, researchers from Swedish Cancer Institute ...
Analog is approximate. Digital is specific. Therein lies the fundamental difference between digital PET and its analog ...
August 2, 2011 – Two new studies published in the August 2011 issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) provide ...
August 2, 2011 – An estimated 1.7 million clinical positron emission tomography (PET) patient studies were performed in ...
Typically, the only radiation facing travelers is from the airport scanners they must walk through to board airplanes ...
July 26, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting healthcare professionals to stop using CardioGen ...
Wielding an assortment of high-energy photons, ultrasonic waves and radiofrequencies, radiology has made a practice of ...
July 19, 2011 – The study "Use of Florbetapir-PET for Imaging beta-amyloid Pathology," published in the Jan. 19, 2011 ...
Despite its first commercial appearance in the late 1970s, positron emission tomograpnhy (PET) did not begin gaining ...
July 13, 2011 – Based on its recent analysis of the medical imaging market, Siemens Healthcare was given the 2011 North ...