Researchers used PET/MRI to detect otherwise invisible inflammation. Less clear is how this might influence patient care.

As the authors reported in Radiology Case Reports, the patient had no history of cancer and had no pain, weakness, numbness, or other spine-related symptoms. Lab tests confirmed she had severe anemia; ...

PET/MRI was abnormal for 57% of subjects ... There was no myocardial, pericardial, periannular, or pulmonary uptake on the PET/MRI scans of the control group (n = 9). Analysis of plasma protein ...

Computed tomography (CT) attenuation correction scans are an intrinsic part of positron emission tomography (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging ... Patients with 3 or 4 abnormal chamber volumes were 7× ...

The abnormal accumulation of α-synuclein protein ... corresponding author and researcher at the Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET Center at Huashan Hospital, Fudan University.

This is especially true with abnormal growths, lesions ... If cancer is suspected, a combination PET-CT scan may provide more definitive evidence of a malignancy alongside a biopsy of the growth ...

He used this to evaluate tau PET scans in the TRIAD cohort. Every voxel on the TRIAD scans was scored as having either a normal or abnormal tau load, where abnormal was defined as more than 2.5 ...

Perlmutter, MD, a professor of neurology and of radiology, to use radiotracers to track inflammation in the brains of people with Parkinson's disease using PET scans. Tu (left) and Perlmutter ...

A PET scan involves injecting a small, safe amount of radioactive material (a radiotracer) into the body to highlight areas of abnormal cell activity. The test is crucial for cancer detection, staging ...

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 ...

The PET scan is especially well-suited to lymphoma, because it's more sensitive than CT scans alone at telling the difference between cancer and other types of abnormal tissues, such as scarring. For ...