UC Davis Health's first-of-its-kind total body scanner EXPLORER is being given yet another new assignment—assessing how ...

and Corey The mother of a boy with Down syndrome has told how he waited for more than three years for a scan to confirm he has arthritis. Lucy Meaney, from Bagenalstown, Co Carlow, said Joey (16 ...

Medicare may cover positron emission tomography (PET) scans. If you have a PET scan as an inpatient, Part A will typically cover costs. If you are an outpatient, Part B will cover eligible expenses.

Other tests may be used as part of the evaluation, including: Costochondritis is often confused with Tietze syndrome, a benign condition that causes the swelling of cartilage in the rib cage. Although ...

Researchers from endocrinology and nuclear medicine departments have introduced a new PET scan molecule that enhances the detection of adenoma/small tumour... The Tribune, now published from ...

The team detailed the case of a 38-year-old woman whose condition was only identified through an F-18 FDG-PET/CT scan after initial MRI tests showed no abnormalities. The patient presented at the ...

"In our study, we sought to examine the release of dopamine in real-time by performing PET scans while individuals completed behavioral flexibility tasks." Eighteen participants were scanned with ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services granted Flyrcado pass-through status starting April 1, allowing separate payments for the imaging agent and the PET/CT scan in hospital outpatient ...

Foremost for Alzheimer's disease, we now have specific PET ligands to detect and quantitate amyloid plaques as well as neurofibrillary tangles, and that's revolutionized the diagnosis and care of ...

These scans allow us to track the timing of brain activity to a precision of around 10 milliseconds. This very high resolution measurement of the timing of brain activity can be used to understand ...