“Nuclear neurology is an emerging medical subspecialty,” he told HCB News. “My anecdotal experience has been that once clinicians have seen what nuclear neurology can do for them in the care of their patients, they expand their use of it.”  {read more here}

PET/CT scans have identified activity in a stress-related structure in the brain that could be linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a study published online January 11 in the Lancet. {read more here}

A new multipurpose computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithm was able to detect and characterize different kinds of spinal metastases in PET/CT images automatically and accurately, say researchers from two U.S. institutions. The fully automated system could help doctors diagnose and manage patients with the most common musculoskeletal metastases. {read more here}

Adjusting treatment dose after 2 courses of first-line therapy based on a positive PET scan does not improve progression-free survival (PFS) among patients with advanced stage Hodgkin lymphoma, according to a study published in The Lancet Oncology. {read more here}