AuntMinnie
MARCH 4, 2025
F-18 fluoroestradiol (FES) PET may improve staging of grade 1 or 2 estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer compared with F-18 FDG-PET, according to an article published March 4 in Radiology. The tumor in the right breast (T4N0M0, grade 3 ductal carcinoma) is visible on both PET scans.
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. Each participant was matched to a control Medicare beneficiary who had not undergone amyloid PET.
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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.
AuntMinnie
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has highlighted a study that shows cardiac PET scans can help identify people at risk for Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia. Heart and brain PET scans from a study participant who developed Parkinson’s disease support a “body first” progression.
AuntMinnie
APRIL 29, 2024
The researchers performed F-18 PBR06 PET scans on 22 patients with MS and eight healthy controls. According to the analysis, glial activity on F-18 PBR06 PET scans was higher in patients with MS than healthy controls in cortical gray matter (+33%) and white matter (+48%). The full article is available here.
AuntMinnie
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
The group previously described developing the AI model in an article published last year. In this case, a 43-year-old man underwent an MRI scan that showed no contrast enhancement, yet hyperintensities were apparent in the patient’s left thalamus and frontoparietal region. Image courtesy of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
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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