An abnormal heart PET scan typically prompts further evaluation and discussions with doctors to determine appropriate management strategies. These may include: The heart PET scan is an invaluable ...

PET scans are effective imaging tests. They can detect abnormal activity in the body and often find cancerous tumors earlier than other imaging tests can. But the degree of accuracy varies with ...

Using an experimental positron emission tomography (PET) scan, researchers have found elevated amounts of abnormal tau protein in brain regions affected by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE ...

Most recently, compounds have been developed that allow abnormal clumps of tau to be detected by PET scans. Precise measures of these proteins can also now be obtained using cerebrospinal fluid from a ...

Alzheimer’s disease is often characterized by the presence of abnormal amounts of beta-amyloid ... and block cell functions in the brain. A PET scan is a medical imaging technique that uses ...

Long-COVID patients show signs of inflammation on PET/ MRI scans suggests a new study published in the Jouenal of Nuclear ...

had an abnormal whole-body 131 I scan, and 141 patients (64%) had an abnormal PET scan. Patients with FDG-PET performed after withdrawal of levothyroxine had a TSH level of at least 5 mU/l.

Based on their research from the late 1990s, which demonstrated that 18 F-dopamine PET scans could separate three autonomic synuclein disorders (brain diseases characterized by abnormal deposits of ...

Stomach cancer, or gastric cancer, happens when abnormal cells develop in your ... including imaging tests. MRIs, CT scans, and PET scans can all be useful for detecting and staging stomach ...