After potential drug treatments for Alzheimer’s disease came a-knocking this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have now opened up the door to wider coverage of PET diagnostic scans.

Dr. Gary Small answers the question: 'MRI, PET Scan for Alzheimer's Diagnosis?' May 4, 2009 -- Question: When are imaging diagnostics, such as an MRI or PET scan, used to determine whether I have ...

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 ...

FDA approves Pylarify TruVu, a new prostate cancer PET imaging agent designed to expand access and improve detection of ...

PET scans can light up tumors in the body and help doctors determine if they are cancerous or benign (noncancerous). The results of a PET scan help guide medical decisions. A PET scan is a type of ...

A combined PSMA-PET/MRI scanner better detected clinically significant prostate cancer in men on active surveillance. The addition of piflufolastat F18 (18 F-DCFPyL) prostate-specific membrane antigen ...

ZIRCON-X was designed as a post-hoc analysis of imaging data collected in the ZIRCON trial to evaluate how the incorporation of 89 Zr-girentuximab PET imaging could influence clinical management ...

EXPLORER, the world's first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3-D picture of the whole human body at once, has produced its first scans. The brainchild of UC Davis scientists Simon Cherry and ...