Radiologists who receive training in nuclear medicine are still able to interpret anatomical imaging studies just as well as general radiologists, according to a new study. The research is good news for efforts to create a unified training program for hybrid imaging. {read more here}

Date: August 25, 2016 at 3:00pm ET

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved NETspot®, the first kit for the preparation of gallium 68 DOTATATE injection, a diagnostic agent for positron emission tomography(PET) imaging. {read more here}

PET imaging of tau proteins with a novel radiotracer based on fluorine-18 (F-18) is showing great promise in differentiating between Alzheimer’s patients and cognitively normal individuals and identifying how the disease may develop, according to a study published online July 25 in JAMA Neurology. {read more here}

The brain’s nerve cells communicate by firing messages to each other through junctions called synapses, and problems with those connections are linked to disorders like Alzheimer’s and epilepsy. Now Yale University researchers have developed a way to picture synapses in living brains.  The technique reported Wednesday, using PET scans, is highly experimental but it raises the possibility of one day monitoring synapse function in some common diseases. {read more here}