The information from the PET scan and from the CT scan is different but complementary. The PET scan shows areas with increased metabolic activity, while the CT scan shows detailed anatomical locations ...

"This process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter clumped together at different epochs." ...

It is known as nuclear medicine because of the way in which radioactive isotopes are used to create the scans. Lee Evans ... for patients by incorporating a CT scanner alongside the gamma technology.

Nuclear magnetic resonance is a technology that ... MRI is the preferred diagnostic tool -- especially for brain imaging, although CT scan is still chosen for strokes because it is better at ...

Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death globally. One of the most common tools used to diagnose and monitor heart disease, myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) by single photon emission ...

ScanTech AI Systems, Inc. has announced the successful deployment of its advanced 'fixed-gantry' computed tomography (CT) security scanners at various nuclear power facilities in Canada ...

Various scans like CT, MRI, and PET are available ... Martin Gotthardt, professor of Nuclear Medicine at Radboudumc, explains ...

Researchers at Saint Louis University have suggested that patients going for PET or CT scan should ... the tracer used in the PET scan called FDG at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's annual ...

Work has begun to replace the older of two computed tomography (CT) scanners at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre with a new, state-of-the-art model. The $2.4-million equipment replacement project ...

Mangaluru: The stakeholders working in the radiation protection field should consider developing a national registry for radiation exposure in the med.

Patients undergoing PET/CT scan would add to this radiation exposure ... The basic training requirements and guidelines set by each country for each staff category (nuclear medicine physicians, ...