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What Is a PET Scan?

A positron emission tomography (PET) scan provides detailed three-dimensional images of your internal body organs and tissue, which helps diagnose a wide range of conditions.
A doctor has issued a warning over a worrying new side effect of drugs used to aid weight loss. Drugs such as Mounjaro, ...
A newly identified side effect of popular weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy may interfere with medical imaging and ...
Curium’s new Oxford site will produce PET tracers, expanding access to advanced cancer diagnostics for Oxford, the Midlands, ...
The uEXPLORER total-body PET scanner at UC Davis will be used in a new project to look at the underlying causes of long COVID symptoms. (UC Davis photo) Using total-body PET imaging to get a better ...
Reston, VA (September 20, 2025)--A promising new PET tracer can visualize a protein that is commonly overexpressed in triple-negative breast and urothelial bladder cancers within four hours, according ...
The growing use of GLP-1 receptor agonists may affect the interpretation of oncological FDG PET-CT scans, new research ...
WEIGHT loss jabs could interfere with vital scans, potentially leading to cancer misdiagnosis, scientists say. Whether they’re taken for diabetes or weight loss, through the NHS or ...
Researchers have reported that the widespread use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists – prescribed for diabetes and ...
A preclinical evaluation of a new ’dual-mode’ tracer agent shows promise in not only helping surgeons image and plan prostate cancer procedures, but also provide them with much more consistent and ...