By comparing baseline and follow-up coronary calcium scores from PET/CT scans of lymphoma patients after chemotherapy, researchers say they can better follow the cancer treatment’s debilitating impact on the heart, and perhaps get a better handle on possible cardiotoxicity. {read more here}

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technology (CLST) have developed a new PET scan that is able to analyze neuron proliferation in the brain’s subventricular and subgranular zones of the hippocampal dentate gyrus, the areas most affected by depression. {read more here}

Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are uncommon tumors with increasing incidence and prevalence. Current reports suggest that ⁶⁸Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT imaging improves diagnosis and staging of NETs compared with ¹¹¹In-DTPA-octreotide and conventional imaging. {read more here}

Greater raphe nuclei serotonin_1A binding potential, as indicated in positron emission tomography imaging, predicted higher suicidal ideation and greater risk for death by suicide, according to recent findings. {read more here}