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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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PET tracer shows promise in prostate cancer patients

AuntMinnie

Moreover, the approach could help detect disease that other effective prostate cancer PET radiotracers may miss, said Heying Duan, MD, a nuclear medicine research scientist at Stanford University, during a November 26 scientific session. You've hear a lot about PSMA. approved Ga-68 PSMA-PET and experimental Ga-68 RM2.

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Imaging Tests for Cancer

Capitol Imaging Services

A doctor will often use a diagnostic imaging test to check patients for signs of cancer. 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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The 3 “Must Haves” in Women’s Imaging

Clermont Radiology

Our Women's Center performs both screening and diagnostic mammograms. Ultrasound is a simple, safe, painless diagnostic procedure that bounces high-frequency sound waves off parts of the body and captures the returning “echoes” as images. There is no injection or radiation exposure associated with ultrasound.

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

AuntMinnie

The diagnosis and management of intermediate-risk and high-risk prostate cancer are increasingly informed by advances in diagnostic imaging, the authors noted. Radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians analyzed the images, with their reads ultimately compared to laboratory results from biopsies.

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