PET MPI reveals lipid-lowering medications leave some patients at risk
Los Angeles, CaliforniaPET scans of patients with heart disease revealed that one in four whose lipid-lowering therapy seemed to be working still had progressive heart disease and were at risk. The study was reported by researchers at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's (SNM) 49th An...PET/CT may identify 'vulnerable' aortic plaque
Los Angeles, California Combined PET and CT scans may be able to detect early pathological changes i...e's (SNM) 49th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. Such scans could be useful in disease prevention and in monitoring patients for early disease. Mitsuaki Tatsum...Novel diagnostic tool detects life-threatening infections faster than standard nuclear imaging tests
...Tc-99m Depreotide and underwent whole body imaging scans with a nuclear medicine camera two hours later. Infection/inflammation was detected in all patients studied, sometimes more accurately than other tests, including CT scans. The investigators found that Depreotide was able to detect the source of in...University of Pittsburgh research shows combined PET/CT finds cancerous lesions standard CT misses
... cervical carcinoma. Those lesions did not show on scans of the same patients taken with conventional CT or ultrasound, the tools used at most hospitals to follow patients with these types of cancers. We found the combined PET/CT is a very important machine for staging and re-staging patients with these ty...New research brain abnormalities appear early in psychoses
...rlier, perhaps even before symptoms develop. Brain scans of 25 patients in the earliest stages of psychosis showed parts of a section of the brain mainly related to memory and recognition of speech (the temporal lobe) were shrunk compared with those of healthy people. These findings, to be published in the...New screening methods for Down's syndrome questioned
...e (35 years or more) combined with routine anomaly scans Fifteen per cent of pregnant women were aged over...ose using a maternal age of 35 or more and anomaly scans detected 54%. Their findings also suggest that the recently announced government initiative to intro...Emory brain imaging studies reveal biological basis for human cooperation
Functional MRI scans have revealed a "biologically embedded" basis for altruistic behavior, with several characteristic regions of the brain being activated when players of a game called "Prisoner's Dilemma" decide to trust each other and cooperate, rather than betray ea...Cancer revealed: New $10M grant establishes cancer imaging center
...morrow's cancer patients will have medical-imaging scans that will tell them and their doctors in minutes not only where their tumors are, but also how fast their cancer is growing, what genes inside their cancerous cells have mutated and gone out of control, what treatments might kill their cancer most ef...High levels of C-reactive protein indicate early heart disease
...e CRP levels and electron beam computed tomography scans to detect the amount of calcium in their coronary arteries, which is given as a coronary artery calcification (CAC) score. Participants were divided into five groups, or quintiles, based on their CRP levels. Quintile ranges for CRP were 0-0.04 mg/...PET/CT scanning now available at Fox Chase Cancer Center
... more precisely. "When used alone the PET and CT scans are good diagnostic tools, but when combined, they...that cancer is present. "We traditionally use CT scans to diagnose patients with cancer, however, we don't always know how extensive the disease is until w...Smokers infections increase risk of early atherosclerosis
...f chronic infection." Researchers used ultrasound scans to examine changes in the carotid arteries (the main vessels supplying blood to the brain) of 826 men and women ages 40 to 79. The participants were part of the Bruneck Study, a prospective, population-based survey in Bruneck, Italy, designed to ide...... Thomas Rutaganira built the model by studying CAT scans of the aorta, the major vessel carrying blood from the heart. The aorta rises out of the heart and then bends over in a candy-cane shape, taking blood to the abdomen and the legs. Three major arteries branch off the top of the bend, taking blood to ...Lombardi Cancer Center to enroll current and former smokers in nationwide clinical trial
...professionals therefore hypothesize that spiral CT scans are superior to chest x-rays, because spiral CT ca...hospitals have recently begun performing spiral CT scans as a way of finding early lung cancer in smokers and former smokers--despite the lack of scientific ......the evidence needed to determine whether spiral CT scans are better than chest X-rays at reducing a person'...tly some hospitals have begun performing spiral CT scans as a new way to find early lung cancer in smokers and former smokers. However, no scientific eviden...Lung cancer screening trial compares CT and standard x-ray
...ography (CT) and standard chest X-ray. "Both CT scans and chest X-rays are now used to detect lung cance... 100 years. Through past data, we now know that CT scans can pick up smaller nodules than X-rays, some of which will be cancer. But what we don't know is if...New research adds to understanding of conscious awareness
...s," used single-photon computed tomography (SPECT) scans to show blood flow changes in the brain when patie...d 71 patients with epilepsy who received the SPECT scans while having seizures, or very shortly after the seizures, as part of a diagnostic evaluation, to de...UK researchers develop novel treatment for fibroids
...47 patients who have had three-month follow-up MRI scans we saw a significant mean reduction in fibroid vol...ty-four women have received one-year follow up MRI scans and here we found the fibroids were reduced by a mean of 41% with a range of 13% to 78%." Only one o...'Slice' scanner latest advance in early detection of heart disease
...ta blockers. Two independent experts reviewed the scans and compared them to angiography. Classification of patients as having no, single, or multivessel disease was accurate in 78 percent of patients and no patients with significant obstructions were incorrectly excluded."Although no direct comparisons ...Brain shrinkage in ADHD not caused by medications
..., the investigators had to discard 50 of 594 total scans due to blurring by motion in the scanner. Volumes of various brain structures and tissue were measured and analyzed by an automated system incorporating more than 100 networked computer workstations, developed in collaboration with researchers at th...Medications aren't affecting brain size in children with ADHD
...thout the disorder. All the children had follow-up scans over a 10-year period. The study, which was condu...could provide diagnostic criteria. While the brain scans show a slight difference in brain volume, the difference was so slight that it could not be used to ...