Preparing for a PET scan requires switching to a no-sugar diet the day before the scan. People with diabetes may have special instructions regarding medications. Doctors typically schedule PET scans ...
Dr George Owiti, a radiographer at Kericho County Hospital examines the Chest CT results of a patient admitted to the hospital. [James Wanzala, Standard] Despite recent breakthroughs that have ...
Lung cancer is the No. 1 cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Screening with low dose computed tomography (called low dose CT or LDCT) can save lives for people at high risk for this ...
The goal of this investigation was to compare the diagnostic performance of radial T1-weighted gradient-echo (radial volumetric interpolated breath-hold examination [VIBE]) MRI, PET, simultaneous ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control states that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women - nationally, and in the ...
NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) Apr 25 -- Adding positron emission tomography (PET) scanning to conventional preoperative workup would reduce the rate of futile operations by about 20%, according to a ...
A noninvasive approach for assessing lung inflammation should accelerate efforts to develop drugs for inflammatory lung conditions like cystic fibrosis and pneumonia, scientists at Washington ...
TORONTO, Canada--Positron emission tomography (PET) scans can predict who may develop lung disease after trauma, according to findings made public at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's 52nd Annual ...
The use of PET-CT imaging gives doctors the best possible picture of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and this accurate imaging helps to match patients with the best treatments. Unfortunately, not ...
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