Humana will no longer deny coverage of PET/CT imaging procedures for cardiac and some neurological conditions, according to a June 21 news release from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ...

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine procedure used to examine various body tissue functions to identify certain conditions. Biochemical changes in an organ or tissue can be traced ...

PET/CT is a useful tool to map out the possible sites where the cancer first originated. PET/CT is a form of hybrid imaging that combines computed tomography (CT), an anatomical imaging, with positron ...

Children are more sensitive to radiation than adults. All radiation carries a theoretical risk of inducing cancer. The effective dose to the patient from a typical PET/CT examination may be in the ...

Reston, Va.—In the largest study to date to evaluate fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) in the initial staging of inflammatory breast cancer ...

•Once they receive a referral from the oncologist, they give the patient an intravenous injection of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), a tracer dose of radioactive material. • Once the patient is injected ...

The PET Centre is part of both King's College London's (KCL’s) Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT). Using 3 PET-CT scanners and 1 PET-MRI ...

Omni Legend is an innovative, breakthrough technology built from the ground up to harness the power of an advanced digital detector capable of producing high-resolution images and exceptional image ...