Independent Imaging

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

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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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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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Capitol Imaging Services

JUNE 2, 2022

Doctors use imaging tests to see inside a patient’s body and diagnose their illnesses and injuries. There are several types of imaging tests that physicians use to detect cancer in patients: X-Ray, Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Ultrasound (US), Nuclear Medicine, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET).

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AuntMinnie

JULY 8, 2024

Several presenters at the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's (SNMMI) 2024 meeting in Toronto shared new findings in women's studies. Twenty of the 26 scans from patients with active tumors were NeoB-positive, six NeoB-negative. Women's theranostics appears to already be on the horizon.

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