The states and commonwealth with the longest travel distance for PET were Puerto Rico, Montana and Idaho. The states with the shortest travel distance were New York, Nevada and Arizona. Of 392 major ...

Radiation is part of treatment for about half of cancer patients. A breakthrough could change the future of the treatment.

Growing interest in the technology plus a novel tracer on the way may induce change in coming years, says Marcelo Di Carli.

A radioactive tracer combined with a PET-CT scan could replace three different scans and help improve treatment designs for ...

A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is an imaging test that uses a small amount of radioactive tracer to measure the ...

and it is sensitive enough to replace invasive and expensive spinal taps or PET brain scans. The three biomarkers are: p-Tau 217 is a biomarker for Alzheimer-related processes. This p-Tau 217 test ...

Lucerno's Lara system for monitoring effectiveness of radiotracer injections for patients undergoing diagnostic PET and CT scans.-- Lucerno photo Lucerno Dynamics, a Morrisville company developing ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation to Life Molecular Imaging’s (LMI) tau positron ...

Advances in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease are increasing interest in the use of PET scans outside of oncology. The imaging technique can measure the build up of abnormal amyloid protein in the ...

“PET uses a radioactive tracer to visualise molecular activity in the body. Typically, a PET scan is performed alongside a chest CT scan. The two scans are fused to provide combined information ...