In someone with cognitive complaints, Dr. Niotis says the most common brain scans performed are Amyloid PET scans and FDG-PET scans. "Amyloid PET scans tell us if someone has accumulated the toxic ...

FDG-PET imaging is not routinely employed in this type of cancer and its role in endometrial cancer is still being studied and yet to be defined. In a series of 41 whole-body PET studies conducted ...

Several studies have demonstrated that FDG-PET is superior to conventional imaging methods for detecting metastatic disease (Figures 2-5), especially those in the lymph nodes. In an interesting ...

The effective dose from a PET scan is modest and depends on the activity of the injected FDG (18 F-Fluoro deoxyglucose) and is typically 8 mSv for adults using 400 MBq and is the same whether a part ...

Osman from the university presented his study that looks at the relationship between caffeine intake and uptake by the hear of the tracer used in the PET scan called FDG at the Society of Nuclear ...

The most important imaging techniques include positron emission tomography (PET) and computer tomography ... usually fluorine-18-deoxyglucose (FDG), is used for this purpose.