Nuke-med [PET] tracking aids management of advanced biliary tract cancer
Rare but aggressive, cancers of the bile duct can be added to the list of carcinomas for which PET scanning with the radiotracer 18F-FDG adds diagnostic and/or prognostic value, according to the authors of a study running in the August edition of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. {read more here}
When otherwise normally functioning adults with pronounced sleep problems and a weakened sense of smell also have two imaging biomarkers—reduced dopamine activity on SPECT and Parkinson’s-type pattern expression on FDG-PET—they’re probably headed for full-on Parkinson’s disease. {read more here}
New PET radiotracers may soon be coming down the pike, thanks to a chemical mechanism discovered by scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley. {read more here}
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago discovered a new PET/CT technique that can diagnose cardiac sarcoidosis much more accurately than traditional tests and determine if the disease affects other organs. {read more here}