A newly discovered PET imaging tool that can detect the buildup of an enzyme associated with leukemia and other deadly cancers could identify patients likely to respond well to certain cancer treatments, according to a study published online March 28 in the  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. {read more here}

A Colorado State University researcher who is studying the effects of medical marijuana on patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) will be using PET/CT to track muscular and neurological activity as part of his testing.  {read more here}

“Our study illuminates, for the first time, a relationship between activation of neural tissues — those associated with fear and stress — and subsequent heart disease events,” said Ahmed Tawakol, M.D., co-director of the cardiac MR PET CT program at Massachusetts General Hospital and co-author of the study. {read more here}

In a new development, a unique transformable PET system that images both during and after irradiation has proven feasible. The miniature OpenPET prototype was developed by researchers from the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) in Chiba, Japan, led by Taiga Yamaya (Phys. Med. Biol. 61 1795). {read more here}