For the first time, physicians can examine the systemic burden of inflammatory arthritis simultaneously across all joints and organ systems, using the high-sensitivity, high-resolution uEXPLORER total ...

PET scans may serve as both a diagnostic and prognostic tool in giant cell arteritis (GCA), according to a new study. In over 100 patients with GCA who underwent 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET ...

Digital FDG PET/CT can pick up cranial giant cell arteritis that may be missed on ultrasound because of a lack of trunk large ...

(WNDU) - A PET scan is an imaging test that doctors traditionally use to evaluate patients for cancer, but it requires a dose of radiation, and a patient needs to lie still for 30 minutes or more. If ...

Carly Bartuccio talks with event attendees about the new PET-CT scanner at a ribbon-cutting. Nothing can replace the caring touch of a health care worker, nor the expert clinical decision-making of a ...

made use of a mobile PET/CT scanner to diagnose patients as well as evaluate how well their treatment plans were working. "For many years, we had utilized that scanner which was parked out in front of ...

The BSA Health System has installed a new Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) scanner to expand the hospital's diagnostic imaging capabilities.

PET scans can light up tumors in the body and help doctors determine if they are cancerous or benign (noncancerous). The results of a PET scan help guide medical decisions. A PET scan is a type of ...

A performance evaluation of the uEXPLORER total-body PET/CT scanner showed that it exhibits ultra-high sensitivity that supports excellent spatial resolution and image quality. Given the long axial ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 20, 2004 – Early and accurate detection of oncological disease is critical to the treatment and, ultimately, survival of patients suffering from cancer. In an effort to ...

Ascension St. John will soon have a new way to detect cancer in patients throughout Green Country. The hospital system is going to use a new mobile PET/CT scan to save even more lives. Ascension St.

The Life Vincent Pallotti Hospital in Cape Town has recently improved its cancer diagnostics by installing a digital PET-CT (positron emission tomography-computed tomography) scanner. This scanner, a ...