AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

FDG-PET/CT provides functional insights by detecting metabolic changes before structural alterations, making it valuable for therapy response monitoring, but it has limitations in visualizing metabolically silent bone metastases, according to Masperi and Girlando. Scans were conducted using two CT systems (Somatom go.Top from Siemens).

Bone Scan 130

Bone Scan Radiopharmaceuticals Imaging Modalities Bone Scintigraphy 130

AuntMinnie

JULY 1, 2024

PET/CT imaging with a new radiotracer (F-18 PSMA-1007) is superior to MRI prior to surgery in men with intermediate-risk and high-risk prostate cancer, according to a study published on July 1 in JAMA Oncology. In this phase II clinical trial, the researchers sought to evaluate the approach further. The full study is available here.

MRI 264

MRI PET Scan Nuclear Medicine Bone Scan 264

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The finding is from a phase I/II clinical trial in the U.S. In the trial, 30 patients with recurrent disease or metastatic prostate cancer underwent baseline conventional imaging (CT, MRI, or bone scan) and whole-body Ga-68 PSMA-R2 PET/CT between 20 minutes and four hours after injection.

Clinic 130

Clinic Nuclear Medicine Bone Scan Disease 130

AuntMinnie

AUGUST 5, 2024

Imagine going in for a diagnostic MRI scan and coming out with a progressive, irreversible, and potentially fatal disease. Last week, attorneys for a Cleveland man announced they had filed suit against a gadolinium manufacturer, claiming that he developed NSF from an injection of gadolinium MRI contrast. 356: 9234, pp.

Disease 290

Disease MRI Radiologist X-ray 290

REBEL EM

AUGUST 30, 2023

Take Home Points Clinical presentation is very nonspecific; evaluate all patients presenting with back pain for infectious risk factors. MRI is key to diagnosis, obtain this imaging in all patients who raise clinical suspicion Patients with hemodynamic instability and neurologic compromise warrant empiric antibiotics.

Myelogram 100

Myelogram MRI Disease Bone Scan 100

Global Radiology CME

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Bone scan shows diffuse uptake in the markedly enlarged right breast secondary to increased blood pool activity and impaired washout. Discussion: 63-year-old woman presented to a clinic with a one month history of progressively enlarging right breast with redness and tenderness. Mammogram CC view.

Education 52

Education Mammogram Bone Scan Global Radiology 52

Independent Imaging

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

It measures the heart’s ability to respond to external stress, but in a controlled clinical environment. MUGA Scan (Heart Ventricles) The MUGA (multigated acquisition) scan evaluates the function of the heart and measures how well the heart pumps blood with each heartbeat.

Nuclear Medicine 52

Nuclear Medicine Bone Scan X-ray Radiation 52