News tagged with pet scans
New way to produce antimatter-containing atom discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of California, Riverside report that they have discovered a new way to create positronium, an exotic and short-lived atom that could help answer what happened ...
Jul 11, 2011 |
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New microscope records firing of thousands of individual neurons in 3-D
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some disorders of the brain are obvious -- the massive death of brain cells after a stroke, the explosion in the growth of cells that marks a tumor. Other disorders, such as autism, schizophrenia ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Brain changes in people at genetic risk for Alzheimer's revealed in MRI scans
People with a known, high risk for Alzheimer’s disease develop abnormal brain function even before the appearance of telltale amyloid plaques that are characteristic of the disease, according to a new ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 15, 2010 |
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fMRI scans used in murder trial sentencing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans have been used, possibly for the first time, in the sentencing phase of a murder trial in Chicago in the US.
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Researchers develop technique to visualize 'your brain on drugs'
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed an imaging protocol that allows them to visualize the activity of the brain's reward circuitry in both normal individuals and those ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Case study on Alzheimer's disease looks at progression before and after death
A case study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet sheds light on the pathological course of Alzheimer's disease. The brain of the first Alzheimer's patient to display amyloids demonstrable with a PET ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Less is more in cancer imaging
When one diagnoses a cancer patient, it's important to gather as much information about that person as possible. But who would have thought an accurate diagnosis would depend on throwing some of that information ...
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Researchers identify possible imaging method to stratify breast cancer without biopsy
Scientists from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have discovered a possible way for malignant breast tumors to be identified, without the need for a biopsy. The findings were published online ahead of print in the Journal of ...
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Improved lesion detection with time-of-flight PET scans affirmed
For the first time, quantitative -- not qualitative -- data analysis has demonstrated that time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) scans can improve cancer detection. Research published in the March issue ...
Mar 02, 2011 |
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FDA clears Siemens' 2-in-1 medical scanner
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration says it has cleared the first medical imaging device to simultaneously perform two powerful scans used to diagnose a wide variety of diseases and ailments.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 10, 2011 |
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PET scans provide insight into fever-induced epilepsy in children
Sudden, catastrophic childhood epilepsy is a parent's worst nightmare, especially in the case of fever-induced refractory epileptic encephalopathy in school-age children (FIRES). While not much is known about the condition, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 03, 2011 |
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Imaging costs rising faster than total cancer care for Medicare
The cost of imaging studies in cancer patients covered by Medicare is growing at twice the rate of the overall costs of cancer care in that group, according to scientists in the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). A ...
Apr 27, 2010 |
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One scan per patient is not always enough
Seven medical imaging groups wrote a joint letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to formally request coverage of two fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) scans for a patient ...
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Finding cancer 'cold spots' can help minimize radiotherapy side-effects
Fine-tuning radiotherapy to take into account which parts of a patient's tumor are growing fastest could improve control of cancer while subjecting patients to lower doses of radiation, Dutch researchers reported today at ...
Apr 30, 2010 |
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Ownership/leasing of PET scanners by nonradiologists on the rise
Just as with computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the growth rate among non-radiologists who own or lease positron emission tomography (PET) equipment is also on the rise, contributing significantly ...
Mar 01, 2010 |
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