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Types of Nuclear Medicine

Independent Imaging

Nuclear medicine is a form of specialty medicine that uses radioactive tracers to evaluate bodily functions and to diagnose and treat a wide range of health conditions. Nuclear scans produce images of the body’s anatomy that cannot be obtained as clearly or fully with other imaging techniques.

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For Some Prostate Cancer Patients, PSMA PET May Be Better for Initial Staging of Disease

UCSF Biomedical Imaging

An article in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine reports findings of a multi-center retrospective study that compares bone scan with PSMA PET for initial staging of prostate cancer.

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Bone scans may be viable for diagnosing calciphylaxis

AuntMinnie

Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) methyl diphosphonate (MDP) bone scans are a potentially viable noninvasive option for diagnosing calciphylaxis, according to a team at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester, MA. The team assessed the potential diagnostic utility of bone scans in calciphylaxis based on a review of the literature.

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The rise of theranostics: Part 4 -- Women's theranostics on the horizon

AuntMinnie

Several presenters at the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's (SNMMI) 2024 meeting in Toronto shared new findings in women's studies. Gayton oversees clinical operations at Precirix and serves as the company's chief development officer. Women's theranostics appears to already be on the horizon.

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PSMA-PET superior to MRI in phase II prostate cancer trial

AuntMinnie

In this phase II clinical trial, the researchers sought to evaluate the approach further. Radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians analyzed the images, with their reads ultimately compared to laboratory results from biopsies.

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