AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Alzheimer’s disease patients with cognitive impairment or dementia who were referred for amyloid PET scans had fewer hospitalizations compared with a matched control group, according to a study published October 9 in JAMA Neurology. The full article can be found here. of patients with dementia, the authors noted.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A group in France has offered an explanation for long COVID brain fog, with the concept based on a visual brain pattern they discovered on patient PET scans, according to a study published October 13 in Medical Hypotheses. “We A) PET scan of a healthy subject. (B) B) PET scan of a long COVID patient.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 29, 2024

The finding suggests that PET imaging of translocator protein (TSPO) in the brain can serve as a biomarker for evaluating patients whose disease progresses despite treatment, noted lead author Tarun Singhal, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and colleagues. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 30, 2024

New articles will be published each Monday up until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024. Our article announcing the winners of our annual Minnies award is always highly popular among our members. Martha Koperwhats, Texas Children's Hospital 2. Hybrid CT/PET scanning 2. Ongoing shortage of qualified staff 2.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

“To date, F-18 FDG PET findings are currently not taken into account when making a diagnosis for possible, probable, or definite neurosarcoidosis,” noted lead author Jessy Chen, MD, of Charité - Berlin University Medicine, and colleagues. The article was published January 25 in Neurological Research and Practice.

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