August 9, 2017

Triple-organ PET/MR can help manage eventual chemo effects in young cancer survivors

“[I]t can be debated whether our brain, heart and bone imaging could be done with MR imaging only,” they write. “However, we found, in accordance with the findings of other investigators, that 18F-FDG PET can provide important additional information for the assessment of brain function by allowing detection of abnormal brain metabolism in brain areas that appeared normal on MR images.” {read more here}