POSTS TAGGED AS PET

Better Contrast for Imaging Blood Clots in the Body

Noninvasive imaging strategy detects dangerous blood clots in the body
“PET/CMR of [64Cu]FBP8 is able to detect acute as well as [MORE]

Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging Identifies Surgical Margins

Cerenkov luminescence imaging in prostate surgery
Cerenkov luminescence is a phenomenon Russian physicist Pavel Cherenkov first observed in 1934 (Nobel Prize [MORE]

Whole Body 3-D Scanner

Explorer scanner – full-body scanner
A whole body scanner, called “Explorer,” combines PET and CT technology into a machine that is [MORE]

MRI/PET Imaging Using Dual Agents with Time of Flight Capability

Dual Agent PET and MRI
Two injected radioagents– fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) and 18F-sodium fluoride (18F-NaF)—followed by quantitative MRI/PET scanning, produces better [MORE]

Sugar-Based Tracing Agent for PET

Since 1976, when medical scientists at the University of Pennsylvania first used fluorodeoxyglucose (deoxyglucose with a fluorine 18 [MORE]

Advancing Molecular Imaging

PET Scan
Cardinal Health (Dublin, OH), the enormous for-profit healthcare company that manages hospitals and manufactures much of its own [MORE]

Laser Imaging of Circulating Blood

Imaging Red Blood Cells
Using two lasers that excite specific molecules in the skin, a Harvard team has been able [MORE]

Integrated MR Scanner

Siemens has combined a whole-body molecular magnetic resonance scanner and an integrated PET imager into one machine-a world’s first. [MORE]