Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET-CT) rather than conventional CT scanning should be used to image and assess follicular lymphoma, concludes a study in The Lancet Haematology. {read more here}

An experimental positron emission tomography (PET) tracer is effective in diagnosing concussion-related brain disease while a person is still alive, according to a case study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and at Molecular Neuroimaging (MNI) LLC in New Haven, and published September 16 in the journalTranslational Psychiatry. {read more here}

September 16, 2014 — SAN FRANCISCO – Imaging is central to the unprecedented wave of medical specialties converging on cancer care. But it will take more than what today’s radiologists are trained for to better understand cancer’s mysteries, according to a keynote address by Dr. Hedvig Hricak, PhD, on Monday at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) meeting. {read more here}

The first PET imaging study of its kind to show the viability of tumor angiogenesis imaging in humans with investigational Ga-68 NODAGA-Theranost has been conducted by researchers from the Theranostics Center for Molecular Radiotherapy and Molecular Imaging in Bad Berka, Germany, and other institutions including the National Cancer Institute and Advanced Imaging projects based in Boca Raton, Fla. Molecular Imaging has obtained an exclusive sneak-peek at the study. {read more here}