AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

F-18 florbetaben PET scans for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease can be reduced from 20 minutes to five minutes without losing accuracy, according to a recent study. Our findings suggest that shorter scan times are a viable and effective option for brain amyloid PET imaging in clinical settings,” the group wrote.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The research included 62 cognitively healthy individuals (average age, 50) who underwent a brain PET scan, body MRI, and metabolic assessment. Images courtesy of the RSNA.

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Radiology Business

MARCH 24, 2024

“With further tuning and validation, this pipeline may potentially add value in cancer screening, staging, diagnosis and prognosis," experts wrote in Cell Reports Medicine.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 12, 2025

A PET study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has called into question the theory that ultraprocessed foods elicit brain responses akin to addictive drugs. Participants fasted for 12 hours before the first scan. Participants completed a five-day inpatient stay during which their diets were stabilized.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The alleged kickback scheme spanned nine years, with Cardiac Imaging Inc. paying physicians "excessive fees" to oversee PET scans, the DOJ said.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared deep-learning algorithm designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of imaging procedures, Telix said. The algorithm allows for faster PET scanning, up to 75% faster without compromising image quality, according to the company.

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Radiology Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Screening for the drug necessitated a PET scan, and individuals also required a baseline MRI within one year before treatment, with more to follow.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 7, 2024

TORONTO -- AuntMinnie.com spoke with prostate cancer imaging expert Phillip Kuo, MD, PhD, of the City of Hope in Duarte, CA, at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging annual meeting about new developments in PET/CT imaging in patients on Lu-177 PSMA-617 therapy. last year for Alzheimer's disease.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

An AI algorithm designed for brain PET imaging found a glioblastoma in a patient that had gone undetected by physicians, according to a case reported February 15 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Baseline scan (A), segmentation results (B), and follow-up scan (C) from patient with molecular glioblastoma.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 31, 2023

PET scans for the first time show brain activity that could potentially explai.

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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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Health Imaging

JANUARY 27, 2025

Post-traumatic epilepsy can be disabling, causing recurrent seizures that are unresponsive to preventive medications in up to 30% of patients.

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Health Imaging

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The popular AI chatbot got most of the answers it was asked by researchers right, but its reliability is still up in the air.

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Radiology Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Florida resident Rick Nassenstein allegedly “played a central role” in a scheme that involved paying physicians “exorbitant” fees to refer patients for PET scans.

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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

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

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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Radiology Business

MAY 15, 2023

Lecanemab requires a baseline PET scan and follow-up MRIs after infusions, spelling heavy demand for radiology services, experts wrote in JAMA.

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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).

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on October 13 that it has lifted its coverage limit of one beta-amyloid PET scan per lifetime for patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Medicare coverage decisions for amyloid PET scans will now be made by local Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs).

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2024

A group led by researchers at the University of Arizona has received a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop multitracer brain PET imaging technology. The group’s technology aims to overcome this limitation by taking advantage of prompt gamma signals in addition to the positron signals.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A group in England has established PET imaging as a new approach for studying gait – an excellent indicator of physical, emotional, and mental health, according to a study published February 6 in NeuroImage. F-18 FDG-PET scans allow clinicians to measure the brain's energy demands based on glucose metabolism.

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Atlantis Worldwide

AUGUST 7, 2024

PET Scanning, like all other modalities of imaging equipment, has made strides in improving diagnostic accuracy. The biggest step in that direction for PET has been the development and proliferation of Time-of-Flight technology.

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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

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

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ScienceDaily

JUNE 27, 2024

Radiotracers are radioactive compounds which give off radiation that can be detected by scanners and turned into a 3D image. The new radiotracer, called FDT, enables PET scans to be used for the first time to accurately pinpoint when and where the disease is still active in a patient's lungs.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 15, 2025

Gallium-68 (Ga-68) fibroblast activation protein inhibitor (FAPI) PET/CT is a promising new method for imaging gastric cancer, according to a study published January 16 in the Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. indicating tracer accumulation on PET (arrowhead, d). The maximum projection image of PET (e).

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Diagnostic Imaging

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Two experts review SNMMI (Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging) guidelines for use of PSMA PET scans in prostate cancer detection, as well as awareness about this new modality within the patient community.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Both amyloid plaque brain deposits and changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF) are key components of Alzheimer’s disease, with amyloid PET scans and MRI typically used separately to detect changes in these biomarkers in patients. Image courtesy of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. A link to the full study is available here.

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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. Of these, 119 (43%) had normal cognition, 132 (24%) had mild cognitive impairment, and three (2%) had Alzheimer’s disease.

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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. Image courtesy of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. mm versus 4.96

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 24, 2024

The team has worked for the past eight years on developing an approach of imaging cells called microglia. The team developed a technique called F18 PBR 06 PET imaging. The newly published study involved performing PET scans on 22 people with MS and eight healthy controls.

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Diagnostic Imaging

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Experts highlight the use of PSMA PET scans as a recent and accurate imaging method for prostate cancer screening.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 23, 2025

The accumulation of brain amyloid deposits is a mechanism underlying Alzheimers disease, with amyloid PET scans used to diagnose the disease. To address the knowledge gap, the group identified 182 out of 1,680 participants in an Alzheimers disease study in France and Monaco who had both PET scans and HSV-1 blood tests available.

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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

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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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. Out of 150 men who participated, 134 ultimately underwent radical prostatectomies (the mean age was 62 years old).

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