Q: My wife is 59 years old. She had COVID-19 but recovered. A recent chest X-ray shows a white patch on her lung. She doesn’t have a cough or a fever, and her pulmonologist wants her to have a PET ...

PET scans can detect amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain, which are often early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. But they’re not enough on their own to make a diagnosis. Alzheimer’s disease is ...

A heart PET scan is a noninvasive imaging test that uses a small amount of radiation. It helps doctors understand how the heart functions and whether it is healthy. Cardiac or heart PET scans create ...

Alicia Morgans, MD: Jeremie, can you talk about the importance of imaging in prostate cancer, [such as] PSMA [prostate-specific membrane antigen] PET [positron emission tomography] imaging, that [may] ...

A cyclotron is a complicated device that makes very short-lived radioisotopes. These radioisotopes can be used to manufacture radiopharmaceuticals for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. PET ...

August 29, 2006 — Whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) scans can help determine whether breast cancer has spread to the lymph nodes, US researchers report in the August issue of Archives of ...

At first glance, it might appear that better access to so-called amyloid-PET scans could compensate for some of the racial inequities in Alzheimer’s disease, as Linda Goler Blount called for in a ...