Imaging with equipment that combines positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT) provides the special benefits of both in one procedure. It is a highly sensitive imaging technique ...

Overall, PSMA-PET/CT detected distant metastasis in 84 of 182 cases (46%) that were negative by other types of imaging, ...

PET is of great benefit as a diagnostic tool in ovarian carcinoma when there is increase in serum CA-125 and computed tomography (CT)/MRI or conventional imaging are inconclusive or negative.

On when should a patient get a PET scan for lung cancer evaluation, Dr Mutua says if a chest x-ray or chest CT scan reveals suspicious findings, a PET scan is the next appropriate step.

That's changing with the advent of new imaging technology: CT scans, MRI, 3-dimensional echocardiography (3-D echo), and PET/CT ... have involved a cardiac cath procedure, which can take an ...

Currently, the PET-CT scan procedure can accommodate eight patients daily, but Legaspi said plans are in place to scale up to 15 patients as operations become more regular. The UP-PGH is also ...

When independent, masked reviewers evaluated the scans of 246 patients who underwent both PET-CT and traditional CT imaging within 3 months of their last dose of a first-line regimen of rituximab ...

Daniel Oguna, a PET CT technologist prepares a patient for a scan procedure at Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi. [Photo: Standard] The latest and most advanced scan for evaluation of patients ...

Radiation from patients undergoing other diagnostic and therapeutic radionuclide procedures such as bone scans or radioiodine therapy may pose a risk of radiation exposure to medical staff and does ...

PSMA-PET/CT findings were positive in 84% of the patients. PSMA-PET/CT detected distant metastatic disease in 46% of patients, including 34% of patients after RP, 56% after definitive RT, and 60% ...