Nuclear Medicine
Molecular Imaging Provides Insights into Rheumatoid Arthritis
A recent study utilized positron emission tomography and single photon emission tomography systems and their respective imaging agents to help identify the cause of inflammation involved in the ongoing pathology of osteoarthritis. More...02 Jul 2014
SPECT/CT Imaging Helps Choose Best Treatment for Low Back Pain
A molecular imaging scan in addition to a standard bone scan can provide the needed information about the physiologic health of the spine to choose the most suitable pain-killing treatment strategy for low back pain sufferers. More...26 Jun 2014
Presurgical SPECT/CT Imaging for Breast Cancer Reveals More Tumors Than Lymphoscintigraphy
Surprising findings from an international multicenter trial provide mounting evidence that sentinel node imaging is more effectively performed with hybrid functional imaging using SPECT/CT than with another molecular imaging technique, the current standard, lymphoscintigraphy. More...24 Jun 2014
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PET/MR Found Best Imaging Modality for Detecting Coronary Arterial Disease
Taipei University to Install Proton Treatment Center
Patient-Friendly PET/CT System Provides Very Large Bore, Wide Field-of-View, and Fast Imaging
Molecular Breast Imaging Strategy Reveals More Tumors
Five Diverse Imaging Technologies Now Combined in One SPECT/PET/CT System
Simulations Demonstrate Neutron-Stimulated Emission CT and Gamma-Stimulated Emission CT to Be Safe
Enhanced PET Imaging Radiotracers Designed for Better Tracking of Disease
Re-Treating Lung Cancer with Radiotherapy Is Effective
Breath Analysis Provides Same Sensitivity, Twice the Specificity of PET Imaging Identifying Early Lung Cancer
PET Used Instead of Repeated Biopsy for Monitoring of Prostate Cancer
Functional Brain PET Imaging Effectively Forecasts Which Vegetative Patients Can Recover Consciousness
Early PET-Negative Stage I/II Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients Show Increased Risk of Early Relapse when Radiotherapy Is Not Used
Beam Technology Enables Less Harmful, More Accurate, and Cost-Effective Radiotherapy
PET Imaging Used to Assess Effectiveness of Menkes Disease Treatments
Sharp Decline Seen in Use of Cardiac Nuclear Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
Collaboration Expands Capacity for Proton Therapy Clinical Research and Patient Treatments
Helium Ions May Provide Better-Targeted Treatment in Pediatric Radiotherapy
Shock-Absorbing “Goo” Discovered in Bone
Preoperative PET Reduces Redundant Lung Surgeries
Radiotherapy After Mastectomy Helpful to Women with Breast Cancer That Metastasized to Only a Few Lymph Nodes
PET Imaging Reveals Cognitive Impairment Predicted from Plaques
Earlier Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease Attained with New PET Tracers
Favorable Outcomes Seen for Advanced Stage Tonsil Cancer Using Unilateral Radiotherapy
The Nuclear Medicine channel of MedImaging brings the latest in research and clinical radiotherapy, proton therapy, PET-CT, SPECT, SQUID, radiopharmacology, scintillography, trends and safety concerns.