(WNDU) - A PET scan is an imaging test that doctors traditionally use to evaluate patients for cancer, but it requires a dose of radiation, and a patient needs to lie still for 30 minutes or more. If ...

June 3, 2008 (Chicago, Illinois) — Preoperative imaging with 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) appears to more accurately identify patients with mediastinal and extrathoracic ...

Advances in Total-Body PET/CT Research. Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 14, 274-282. doi: 10.4236/jbm.2026.141021 . PET ...

PHILADELPHIA – Fox Chase Cancer Center is the only institution in the Greater Delaware Valley now offering patients the newest in imaging technology called PET/CT scanning. PET/CT is the fusion of two ...

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Lexington Medical Center (LMC), announced that it is now offering Positron Emission Tomography — Computed Tomography (PET/CT) services. Positron emission tomography (PET) ...

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a type of imaging scan that doctors might use when diagnosing and treating non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). It can be useful for identifying and staging the cancer.

Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2009;9(1):75-96. Based on the available data, FDG-PET alone appears to be of limited use in differentiating tumors of low malignant potential from benign tumors and ovarian ...

TULSA, Okla. — Ascension St. John is doing their part to make the fight against cancer as easy as possible. They were the first in the state to launch a mobile PET scan unit. A PET/CT scan can be a ...

Positron emission tomography (PET) scans can detect cancer earlier than other imaging tests. But some types of cancer are harder to detect on a PET scan. In particular, they may miss cancers that ...

St. Anthony Hospital recently added PET/CT scanning to the hospital's diagnostic arsenal. The mobile scan unit will visit the hospital every Saturday to serve patients in Pendleton and surrounding ...