AuntMinnie

APRIL 29, 2024

PET brain scans show persistent brain inflammation in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), despite being treated with high-efficacy disease-modifying therapies, according to a recent study by researchers in Boston. The researchers performed F-18 PBR06 PET scans on 22 patients with MS and eight healthy controls.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Chinese clinicians have provided evidence in a “real-world study” that shows amyloid PET imaging is effective for diagnosing and managing patients with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published February 8 in Alzheimer’s and Dementia. of patients, noted lead author Ke-Liang Chen, MD, a neurologist at Fudan University. “In

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 19, 2024

PET imaging shows different brain activity in people taking methadone or buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD), according to a presentation at the recent Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging annual meeting. Image and caption courtesy of Jacob Dubroff, MD, PhD.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 29, 2024

Early brain accumulation of amyloid plaque on PET scans is associated with emerging depressive symptoms in cognitively unimpaired older adults, according to a study published August 29 in JAMA Network Open. The mean follow-up period was 8.6 The full study is available here.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 22, 2023

Dr. Timothy Cloughesy, professor of neuro-oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is the senior author of abstract LBA1 , which highlights INDIGO clinical trial results, a global, randomized double-blinded, phase 3 study of vorasidenib verse placebo in patients with residual or recurrent grade 2 glioma with an IDH1/2 mutation.

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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.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its flurpiridaz F-18 radiotracer for PET imaging of coronary artery disease. Although PET MPI as a modality enables high diagnostic accuracy as compared with SPECT MPI, only a minority of annual PET scans in the U.S. with 695,000 deaths recorded in 20214.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 2, 2024

According to clinical trials, amyloid PET scans showed that donanemab reduced amyloid plaques by up to 84% after 18 months of treatment. Safety warnings include that the drug can cause amyloid-related imaging abnormalities, which are detected by MRI and present as temporary swelling in an area or areas of the brain.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JULY 19, 2023

Recognizing the advent of beta amyloid-targeted therapies for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has proposed eliminating coverage restrictions that limit amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scans to clinical trial participants and one amyloid PET scan per lifetime.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 24, 2023

mtaschetta-millane Sat, 06/24/2023 - 15:00 June 24, 2023 — A newly developed technology called “augmented whole-body scanning via magnifying PET” ( AWSM-PET ) has been shown to enhance the image resolution and system sensitivity of clinical whole-body PET/CT imaging. Louis, Missouri.

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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.

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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.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 6, 2024

Dynamic PET scans acquired in half the time of normal scans appear clinically feasible for patients with lung lesions, according to nuclear medicine researchers in Shenzhen, China. A 60-year-old male patient with clinical suspicion of lung cancer. Image courtesy of EJNMMI Physics. cm, SUVmax of 12.2,

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Imaging Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

milla1cf Fri, 02/09/2024 - 09:17 February 9, 2024 — A novel PET imaging technique can noninvasively detect active inflammation in the body before clinical symptoms arise, according to research published in the February issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The nonspecific control peptide demonstrated only low binding. “68

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

PET scans have revealed specific brain pathology that may drive sleep disturbances in Alzheimer’s disease patients, according to a study published February 8 in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences. Nonetheless, the results have several implications for clinical practice, they wrote.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 10, 2024

A recently developed PET camera appears to enable imaging during head motion and has revealed brain patterns in patients when they cough, according to a study published January 8 in Scientific Reports. In this study, the researchers evaluated whether the experimental PET system could clarify brain activity during CiTA.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

FDG-PET imaging shows promise for use as a diagnostic criterion for neurosarcoidosis, with a recent case series illustrating the approach was effective when gold-standard approaches were not, according to a group of researchers in Berlin. “To In all three cases, gadolinium-enhanced MRI scans did not show abnormalities.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

PET imaging has revealed brain pathology linked to faster clinical progression of Alzheimer’s disease in patients with ApoE4 gene variants, according to a study published November 6 in JAMA Neurology.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 27, 2023

milla1cf Thu, 07/27/2023 - 23:20 July 27, 2023 — Scientists have found a new use for copper in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent design, that could help to create better images which help doctors diagnose patients’ conditions more easily and safely.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The following is the list of candidates for the 2024 edition of the Minnies, AuntMinnie.com 's campaign to recognize the best and brightest in medical imaging. Image from Martin W. tesla brain MRI scans. tesla brain MRI scans. Image from Denis Le Bihan, PhD, of the NeuroSpin research facility, et al.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 25, 2024

The finding comes from a group at the Leuven Brain Institute in Leuven, Belgium, who compared tau PET/MRI brain scans among participants with late-life depression, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimer’s disease, and nondepressed older adults. Image and caption courtesy of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 19, 2024

The promise of imaging One challenge is that advances in Alzheimer’s care can only help people if they are reaching the right patients at the right time in their patient journey. Reimbursement barriers Unfortunately, until recently, there were significant barriers to receiving amyloid PET imaging in some regions.

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MSK Library

MARCH 16, 2021

This can look like a clinically significant finding on cancer imaging, including chest CTs, PET scans, mammography, and breast MRI. A small but significant number of people experience swollen lymph nodes as a side effect of receiving a COVID vaccine. … Continue reading →

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 15, 2024

FAPI-PET imaging could emerge as a new tool for assessing patients with single pulmonary tumors, especially in those with negative results on other scans, according to a study published April 11 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. A) Maximum-intensity-projection PET images.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 31, 2023

milla1cf Wed, 05/31/2023 - 20:52 May 31, 2023 — GE HealthCare announced US FDA 510(k) clearance of Precision DL – a new, revolutionary deep learning-based image processing software included in GE HealthCare’s growing Effortless Recon DL portfolio. Gallen in Switzerland [vii].

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 18, 2023

PET scans typically used for diagnosing prostate cancer may have value in detecting inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a case series published December 8 in Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology. A) F-18 DCFPyL PET/CT uptake in the descending colon on a coronal plane. (B)

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AuntMinnie

MAY 31, 2024

PET imaging with nitrogen-13 (N-13) ammonia radiotracer can help predict major adverse cardiac events in patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD), according to a study published May 30 in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging. Patients underwent the scans between January 2017 and January 2021.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Clinical brain imaging with a newly developed portable PET scanner appears feasible, with a comparison to conventional PET imaging for the first time revealing similar results in human subjects, according to a group in New York City. The study was published on December 14 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

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Imaging Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The first new feature,Centiloid scoring, standardizes the quantification of brain-amyloid plaque in PET scans across three commercially available beta-amyloid PET radiopharmaceuticals used to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. Tau PET quantification also has a major role to play in those trials.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 30, 2023

milla1cf Tue, 05/30/2023 - 19:49 May 30, 2023 — Blue Earth Diagnostics , a Bracco company and recognized leader in the development and commercialization of innovative PET radiopharmaceuticals , today announced U.S. It is the first and only FDA-approved, PSMA-targeted imaging agent developed with proprietary radiohybrid (rh) technology.

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Open Medscience

MAY 14, 2024

Positron Emission Tomography Imaging has advanced with cutting-edge technologies, enhancing diagnostic accuracy and expanding clinical applications dramatically. The post Breakthroughs in Positron Emission Tomography Imaging appeared first on Open MedScience.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 30, 2024

Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL MOST SIGNIFICANT NEWS EVENT IN RADIOLOGY 1. Increased use of medical imaging by other specialties (turf battles) HOTTEST CLINICAL PROCEDURE 1. Hybrid CT/PET scanning 2. Advanced Imaging Technologies 2. Weber State University, Ogden, UT 2. Ongoing shortage of qualified staff 2.

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MAY 2, 2023

is an investigational high affinity radiohybrid (rh) Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen-targeted PET imaging agent. The utility of conventional imaging for the localization of recurrence is limited, and relapse after curative-intent radiation therapy remains a considerable clinical burden. 18F-rhPSMA-7.3

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 24, 2023

This research was presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2023 Annual Meeting. “Up Amid technological advances in PET instrumentation and a global thrust to extend brain PET imaging capabilities, our team at the Sherbrooke Molecular Imaging Center has designed and built the UHR dedicated brain PET system.”

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Imaging Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2023

LEADS participants receive a standard clinical evaluation and Magnetic Resonance Imaging ( MRI ) scanning as well as amyloid and tau PET scanning and fluid biomarker assessments on an annual basis. What Are the Clinical Implications? What Were Your Findings?

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

The clinical trial will use this investigational radiopharmaceutical to help understand if patients have CD8+ T cells in their tumors and will, therefore, be more likely to respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors, the main class of immunotherapies currently approved for use.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 23, 2024

An international survey of treatment centers has revealed significant differences in several aspects of Lu-177 PSMA-617 prostate cancer therapy, including patient imaging protocols, according to a study published January 18 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. In addition, different PET radiotracers are used.

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