Rare finding detected on PSMA-PET: A nonprostatic lung tumor
September 27, 2023 -- A group in Australia has described a rare finding during a prostate cancer restaging PET/CT scan -- a pulmonary tumor embolism. Read More
Which PET radiotracer tends to work best for prostate cancer imaging?
September 26, 2023 -- Subtle differences in how prostate-specific membrane antigen-PET radiotracers perform in patients prior to Pluvicto treatment may determine which ones become the future tracers of choice, according to a research team in Germany. Read More
FAPI-PET/CT may improve treatment of cancer patients
September 20, 2023 -- Gallium-68 (Ga-68) FAPI-PET/CT imaging -- a highly accurate experimental approach for detecting cancer -- may further improve outcomes for patients undergoing radiation therapy, according to a recent analysis by German researchers. Read More
Can ChatGPT help prepare patients for PET scans?
September 18, 2023 -- ChatGPT may be able to act as a substitute for staff advice given to patients about PET/CT scans. That's the key finding posted by a German research group that posed 25 questions to the large-language model-based chatbot. Read More
PET imaging predicts long-term outcomes in Parkinson's disease
September 18, 2023 -- PET brain imaging in individuals with early Parkinson's disease can show which patients are at higher risk of long-term effects, according to a study by researchers from the University of Brescia in Italy. Read More
PET reveals link between heart health and brain metabolism
September 8, 2023 -- A PET study suggests that maintaining cardiovascular health during midlife can help reduce the risk of neurodegenerative disease later in life. That's the key finding of investigators from the Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research in Madrid. Read More
Imaging research gets boost from U.K. rejoining Horizon Europe
September 7, 2023 -- Medical imaging and AI research received a substantial boost on 7 September, when the European Commission and the U.K. reached an agreement on the U.K.'s participation in Horizon Europe, the European Union's research and innovation program. Senior radiologists have already welcomed the news. Read More
Which modality performs best for diagnosing prostate cancer relapse?
September 4, 2023 -- PET/CT and PET/MRI have gone head-to-head for detecting prostate cancer relapse in a new analysis that included 37 clinical studies and 8,709 patients -- with PET/MRI taking a slight lead. Read More
PET shows promise in diagnosing atypical parkinsonism
August 23, 2023 -- PET imaging is displaying significant clinical promise in the difficult task of differentiating between subtypes of atypical parkinsonism, a research group from Copenhagen University Hospital has reported. Read More
AI outperforms clinical scores in high-risk lymphoma patients
August 18, 2023 -- Researchers from Amsterdam University Medical Center have developed an AI algorithm for reading FDG-PET/CT scans that performs better than standard clinical scores used to identify high-risk lymphoma patients. Read More
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