What Is a PET Scan? A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is a type of imaging study that can help doctors see what’s happening inside your body and how it’s working. This can help them ...

A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is an imaging test that uses a small amount of radioactive tracer to measure the rate of glucose (sugar) that the cells in your lung use. Cancer cells use ...

Tumor cells have higher metabolic activity compared to healthy tissue and consequently consume a lot of glucose. Positron ...

Christine M. Le takes a look at 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxyglucose and explains how this radioactive sugar could help to save your life.

Two major kinds of emission computed tomography are positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Each uses different types of radioactive isotopes and ...

today announced dosing of the first cohort of patients in the PIPE-791 Phase 1b positron emission tomography (PET) trial. PIPE-791 is a novel, brain penetrant, small molecule antagonist of the ...

If he’d pursued his first love, Simon Cherry might be unraveling the mysteries of the universe through astronomy instead of ...