Scientists have developed a novel PET radiotracer that outpaces current methods of imaging for cardiovascular bacterial infections, according to research presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. {read more here}

MFBG, labeled with the isotope F-18, can be used in conjunction with PET for assessing neuronal integrity. It may play an important role in the diagnosis and assessment of various cancers, as well as some aspects of cardiovascular disease, according to the firm. {read more here}

A new molecular imaging method can monitor the level and location of gene expression everywhere in the brain, enabling early assessment of gene therapy for brain disease, according to findings presented on Sunday at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) conference. {read more here}

Researchers—led by Kevin Chen, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Microrobotics Lab—have found that spatiotemporally correlated data acquired using a single magnetic resonance (MR) sequence may be successfully used in a PET/MRI scanner for PET attenuation, motion and partial effects corrections. {read more here}