At the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology, John Radford, MD, reported the results of the United Kingdom RAPID trial, in which PET-directed therapy provided an opportunity to ...

Identifying and monitoring persons with Alzheimer disease (AD) as early as possible is crucial if disease-modifying interventions, once developed and available, are to be of benefit. Studying kindred ...

The use of PET with the F-18-fluorothymidine (F-18-FLT) can help predict the early early loco-regional outcomes of chemoradiotherapy for patients with head and neck cancer, according to a study in the ...

PET scans were helpful in determining which patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer may be able to skip chemotherapy. Treating patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer based on positron ...

Researchers at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, have demonstrated that a new radiotracer, 2-18 F-fluorodeoxysorbitol (18 F-FDS), can identify and track bacterial infection in lungs better than ...

Researchers have used positron emission tomography scans to identify which patients with a type of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2–positive breast cancer might benefit most from targeted ...

Los Angeles, California… Combined PET and CT scans may be able to detect early pathological changes in the aortic wall and blood vessels that may cause severe cardiovascular events in the future, ...

New research shows that a novel positron emission tomography (PET) tracer that targets inflammation is safe and can clearly identify early stages of rheumatoid arthritis. The promising PET tracer, ...