Hospital Nuclear Medicine PET Scan 
AuntMinnie
MARCH 7, 2024
In 2023 compared with 2022, the total volume of positron emission tomography (PET) scans increased 10.2% year over year, according to the newly published IMV 2024 PET Market Summary Report. In 2023, the average number of PET scans per fixed PET site (versus mobile PET) increased 6.7%
Imaging Technology
APRIL 24, 2024
The findings were published in Clinical Nuclear Medicine. The newly published study involved performing PET scans on 22 people with MS and eight healthy controls. Those being treated with low-efficacy treatments had more abnormalities on their PET scans, suggesting more microglial cell activation.
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AuntMinnie
JULY 10, 2024
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new reimbursement plan July 10 for diagnostic PET scans that would provide separate payments for radiopharmaceuticals, as well as an extra payment for hospitals when they use domestically produced technetium-99m (Tc-99m).
AuntMinnie
APRIL 29, 2024
The finding suggests that PET imaging of translocator protein (TSPO) in the brain can serve as a biomarker for evaluating patients whose disease progresses despite treatment, noted lead author Tarun Singhal, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and colleagues. Image courtesy of Clinical Nuclear Medicine.
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. Image courtesy of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. “In
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.
AuntMinnie
OCTOBER 2, 2024
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