PET Imaging

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear imaging technology (also referred to as molecular imaging) that enables visualization of metabolic processes in the body. The basics of PET imaging is that the technique detects pairs of gamma rays emitted indirectly by a positron-emitting radionuclide (also called radiopharmaceuticals, radionuclides or radiotracer). The tracer is injected into a vein on a biologically active molecule, usually a sugar that is used for cellular energy. PET systems have sensitive detector panels to capture gamma ray emissions from inside the body and use software to plot to triangulate the source of the emissions, creating 3-D computed tomography images of the tracer concentrations within the body.

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January 13, 2012 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is updating healthcare professionals and the public about ...

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January 6, 2012 – Bracco Diagnostics said it plans to close out the recall process for its CardioGen-82 cardiac ...

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January 5, 2012 – During RSNA 2011, TeraRecon Inc. demonstrated a suite of innovative tools for its iNtuition solution ...

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December 16, 2011 — Positron Corp. announced this week that on Dec. 12, 2011, its Attrius & Attrius L positron emission ...

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November 28, 2011 – Philips Healthcare announced 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for ...

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There are currently three major trends in cardiac nuclear perfusion imaging technology: advances in detector hardware ...

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November 18, 2011 – Stroke remains a major healthcare problem; it currently ranks as the third most common cause of ...

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November 9, 2011 – PETNET Solutions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., has entered ...

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Philips TruFlight Select is its first economical positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) system ...

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The new imaging modality of positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was introduced to the U ...

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September 16, 2011 — Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have for the first time used several imaging ...

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September 14, 2011 – The Delaware Insurance Commissioner’s announcement that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware (BCBSD) ...

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August 23, 2011— UltraSPECT of Haifa, Israel, announced the sale of more than 10 of its wide beam reconstruction (WBR) ...

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August 18, 2011 - A new KLAS report, "Positron Emission Tomography (PET)/Computed Tomography (CT) 2011-New Technologies ...

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August 2, 2011 – An estimated 1.7 million clinical positron emission tomography (PET) patient studies were performed in ...

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