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 new PET scan reliably detects benign tumors in the pancreas, according to research led by Radboud university medical center. Current scans often fail to detect these insulinomas, even though they ...

Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-PET/CT imaging identified metastatic prostate cancer in almost half of high-risk cases missed by conventional imaging, a retrospective analysis showed.

PSMA-PET scans detected metastatic disease in 46% of patients, indicating understaging by conventional imaging in high-risk nonmetastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. The study involved 182 ...

Currently, PET (positron emission tomography) brain scans are often used to spot these signs – but perhaps pTau217 blood ...

A new case-control study published in JAMA Cardiology demonstrates that molecular imaging using gallium-68–labeled fibroblast ...

Positron emission tomography (PET) scans can detect cancer earlier than other imaging tests. But some types of cancer are harder to detect on a PET scan. In particular, they may miss cancers that ...

Plasma pTau217 may detect initial buildup of AD-related brain changes before they can be detected by current ‘gold standard’ ...

Can a blood test predict Alzheimer’s? New research shows the pTau217 biomarker detects amyloid accumulation and cognitive ...

This is a cross-sectional view of the torso. The gray areas show the anatomy based on the CT scan, while the colored sections represent the radioactive signal measured by the PET scan. On the left is ...