AuntMinnie | Maximum standardized uptake values on PET/CT scans can help predict prognosis in breast cancer patients with bone metastases, but other PET/CT values could be even more useful, according to research presented last week at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Breast Cancer...
AuntMinnie | In a study being touted as the first to use noninvasive imaging to test the efficacy of an atherosclerosis drug, researchers from Mount Sinai Medical Center and 10 other centers found that a drug called dalcetrapib reduced arterial inflammation and disease progression at...
ImagingEconomics | While new modalities are rare, there has been an increase in combinations of tried and true technologies that promise to give radiologists and the health care enterprise a diagnostic and competitive edge. One of these hybrid offerings, PET/CT, was the subject of KLAS’...
DiagnosticImaging | The Society of Nuclear Medicine has picked its 2011 Image of the Year, published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine’s August 1 edition. The image, courtesy of radiologists at Stanford University and Hospital Mãe de Deus in Brazil, show PET/CT (positron emission tomography/computed tomography)...