AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A deep-learning AI model shows promise in helping clinicians assess cardiac sarcoidosis on PET scans, according to research presented on September 6 at the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology annual meeting in Austin, TX. In the absence of treatment, the disease can lead to irreversible fibrosis and sudden cardiac death.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 29, 2024

In a study published April 17 in Clinical Nuclear Medicine , the group at Brigham tested a new TSPO radiotracer they developed for visualizing such activity called F-18 PBR06. The researchers performed F-18 PBR06 PET scans on 22 patients with MS and eight healthy controls. Image courtesy of Clinical Nuclear Medicine.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Patients with less tau pathology on PET scans may respond better to treatment with the new Alzheimer’s disease drug donanemab, according to an October 25 news report in the journal Practical Neurology. Research suggests that the accumulation of these proteins is a continuous process that starts decades before the onset of symptoms.

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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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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

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. Donanemab is a monoclonal antibody that targets and clears beta-amyloid protein in the brain.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 19, 2024

Jacob Dubroff, MD, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, provided evidence using carbon-11 (C-11) carfentanil PET that individual buprenorphine-treated patients have lower mu-opioid receptor activity across all brain regions than either methadone-treated patients or healthy controls.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 25, 2024

For patients with recurrent prostate cancer, PET scanning with 18F-flotufolastat led to major changes in treatment for 80 percent of patients and 75 percent of patients with a changed treatment focus to watchful waiting had negative scans, according to new research presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Genitourinary Cancers (..)

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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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Medical Xpress: Radiology

JULY 16, 2024

Amyloid PET scans provide in-vivo evidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. However, due to their high cost and limited insurance coverage, they are not widely used in clinical settings outside of the VA Healthcare System.

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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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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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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

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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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 10, 2024

They wrote that in their daily clinical practice, for instance, they promote voluntary coughing in dysphagic patients using a procedure called “cough‐inducing method with tartaric acid” (CiTA). 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

F-18 FDG-PET is an established approach for diagnosing inflammation based on its ability to visualize increased cellular glucose metabolism, and the researchers hypothesized that it could be useful in patients with neurosarcoidosis. In all three cases, gadolinium-enhanced MRI scans did not show abnormalities.

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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. The article was published March 5 in EJNMMI Physics.

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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.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 2, 2024

tesla MRI AI body composition analysis Cardiac PET Cryo/thermoablation CT colonography Genicular artery embolization Hyperpolarized xenon-129 MRI PET/MRI Photon-counting CT Radiomics Theranostics Whole-body MRI screening Image of the Year 3D PET/MR image. PET scans predict patient response to Pluvicto.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

“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. CAD is the most common form of heart disease and remains the leading cause of death for men and women in the U.S., with 695,000 deaths recorded in 20214.

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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. Weber State University, Ogden, UT 2. Introduction of 16-slice CT scanners 2. Ongoing shortage of qualified staff 2.

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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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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.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 31, 2024

A group at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, found that right ventricular myocardial strain ratio (RVMSR) measurements on N-13 ammonia PET images predicted cardiovascular events and suggested the approach can be used to identify patients who would benefit from clinical interventions.

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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. A link to the full study can be found here.

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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 24, 2023

To demonstrate the ability of the UHR scanner to delineate small cerebral structures and accurately quantify the in vivo tracer concentration, researchers compared the UHR scanner to a whole-body PET scanner. This will impact both research and clinical settings.”

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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. Fruhwirth, G. Kneilling, M., De Vries, I. Weigelin, B.,

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 23, 2024

For instance, while the FDA advises that selection of patients for treatment be made using an approved PSMA radiotracer and based on tracer uptake in tumors, they found that most commonly, subjective visual whole-body PSMA-PET scans were performed (33%). In addition, different PET radiotracers are used.

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Imaging Technology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As one of the world’s authorities on prostate cancer treatment, Dr. Zelefsky has made major contributions to the field, shaping clinical practice guidelines and influencing treatment protocols worldwide.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 31, 2023

CR and CNR demonstrated using clinical data with inserted lesions of known size, location, and contrast. Quantitation accuracy demonstrated using clinical data with inserted lesions of known size, location, and contrast (ground truth). Deep learning–based time-of-flight (ToF) image enhancement of non-ToF PET scans.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 27, 2023

“Despite copper largely being disregarded for use in MRI contrast agents, our binding site was shown to display extremely promising contrast agent capabilities, with relaxivities equal and superior to the Gd(III) agents used routinely in clinical MRI. For more information: [link] Thursday, July 27, 2023 - 23:20

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 26, 2024

Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approvals of radiopharmaceuticals for neuroendocrine tumors and then for prostate cancer, theranostics has picked up momentum in clinical practice, propelled by encouraging research. Since the U.S. please insert video here.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 30, 2023

All of us at Blue Earth Diagnostics want to express our sincere gratitude to the many patients, physicians, clinical trial sites and collaborators who have worked closely with us to progress POSLUMA.” Results demonstrated high detection rates (% positive PET scans) even at low PSA levels.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 9, 2023

A European group is calling for the use of amyloid PET scans for Alzheimer'. Will lecanemab approval increase PET scan volumes? FAPI-PET shows promise in patients with RA Brain PET patterns emerge in early Alzheimer's patients Brain PET imaging reveals role of serotonin in Alzheimer's disease

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 14, 2023

Tau-PET scans appear to be better than all other neuroimaging approaches fo.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 20, 2024

Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approvals of radiopharmaceuticals for neuroendocrine tumors and then for prostate cancer, theranostics has picked up momentum in clinical practice, propelled by encouraging research. Since the U.S.

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