PET CT scans are now at Ascension Sacred Heart Bay. Doctors say it will primarily be utilized for cancer treatment.

A new piece of high-tech equipment at The Valley Hospital aims to make patients more comfortable while “significantly” improving disease detection. The Ridgewood health care center announced Dec. 6 ...

PET/CT scanners have become an invaluable imaging tool in clinical oncology because of their ability to measure metabolic activity and evaluate potentially malignant cells. This is not the case for ...

Ascension Sacred Heart Bay held a ribbon-cutting and a blessing on Monday for a brand-new mobile PET scan machine. The new ...

A new total-body PET/CT scanner at NUH Singapore offers faster, safer, and more comfortable cancer diagnosis for patients. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Niagara Falls, NY, Aug. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Positron Corporation (POSC), a leading molecular imaging medical device company offering PET and PET-CT (Positron Emission Tomography/Computed ...

Raymond Raylman and colleagues at West Virginia University. The collaboration also included investigators from Xoran Technologies, the University of Maryland School of Medicine, EhmetDx and Perna ...

Do children undergoing a PET/CT scan have higher radiation risks? Yes. Children are more sensitive to radiation than adults. All radiation carries a theoretical risk of inducin ...

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 ...

For patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), PET/CT scans conducted in the first cycle of salvage therapy can predict for response, according to a study. Results of a prospective study of ...

The province is building four new BC Cancer Centres — in Kamloops, Nanaimo, Burnaby and Surrey — but of those four, only Kamloops will be without a PET/CT scanner, which is an imaging modality that ...

Hancock Health Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Hancock Health, has kicked off a $3 million fundraising campaign to purchase a dedicated in-house PET/CT scanner. GREENFIELD — Hancock Health ...