In patients at high-risk for adrenal malignancy, 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-PET/CT imaging should be used with clinical judgment because of low sensitivity and specificity in this population, according to study findings presented here. {read more here}

A simple measurement using a device available in every hospital could distinguish brain damaged patients who are likely to “wake up” from those who are not, scientists reported on Thursday. {read more here}

bold experiment to kill a vicious cancer has won breakthrough status from the Food and Drug Administration. Early tests at Duke University have been so successful the FDA will fast track this treatment to hundreds of patients while it’s still being evaluated for final approval. The therapy is audacious. It uses the polio virus to attack a virulent brain cancer called glioblastoma… {read more here}

Researchers in the US have demonstrated that software is as good as, if not better than, hardware when it comes to filtering out patient motion during PET. In blind tests of software- and hardware-gated PET images, reviewers could spot no difference most of the time, and when differences were seen, software gating was more likely to be rated as superior. The researchers believe the results could be a “game changer” for software-gated PET, which they say provides an easy and low-cost way to better PET scans (Radiology doi: 10.1148/radiol.2016152105). {read more here}