Medical Imaging News

How Dopamine Tunes Working Memory

A new study reveals how dopamine contributes to working memory. Using simultaneous positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), scientists have shown that the density of cortical...

How Dopamine Tunes Working Memory

A new study reveals how dopamine contributes to working memory. Using simultaneous positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), scientists have shown that the density of cortical...

FDA approves [PET] imaging agent to detect neur...

The FDA approved Netspot, the first kit for the preparation of gallium Ga 68 dotatate injection, a radioactive diagnostic agent for PET scan imaging, according to an agency press release....

FDA approves [PET] imaging agent to detect neur...

The FDA approved Netspot, the first kit for the preparation of gallium Ga 68 dotatate injection, a radioactive diagnostic agent for PET scan imaging, according to an agency press release....

Mammi-PET finds tiny breast lesions -- but coul...

A new dedicated positron emission mammography (PEM) device was put through its paces by European researchers in an article in the June issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. While...

Mammi-PET finds tiny breast lesions -- but coul...

A new dedicated positron emission mammography (PEM) device was put through its paces by European researchers in an article in the June issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. While...

Loss of Y Chromosome in Men Tied to Alzheimer's...

Men who lose Y chromosomes from their blood cells as they age may have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, a new study suggests. {read more here}

Loss of Y Chromosome in Men Tied to Alzheimer's...

Men who lose Y chromosomes from their blood cells as they age may have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, a new study suggests. {read more here}

PET imaging with special tracer can detect, dia...

The effort to find ways to detect and diagnose preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) has taken a big step forward with the use of positron emission tomography (PET), a "nuclear medicine"...

PET imaging with special tracer can detect, dia...

The effort to find ways to detect and diagnose preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) has taken a big step forward with the use of positron emission tomography (PET), a "nuclear medicine"...

Diagnostic PET/CT should be used with caution i...

In patients at high-risk for adrenal malignancy, 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-PET/CT imaging should be used with clinical judgment because of low sensitivity and specificity in this population, according to study findings presented here....

Diagnostic PET/CT should be used with caution i...

In patients at high-risk for adrenal malignancy, 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-PET/CT imaging should be used with clinical judgment because of low sensitivity and specificity in this population, according to study findings presented here....