A heart PET scan is a noninvasive imaging test that uses a small amount of radiation. It helps doctors understand how the heart functions and whether it is healthy. Cardiac or heart PET scans create ...

A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is an imaging technique that uses small amounts of radioactive substances. Doctors may use PET scans in chemotherapy treatments for cancer. PET scans help ...

PET scans can detect amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain, which are often early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. But they’re not enough on their own to make a diagnosis. Alzheimer’s disease is ...

Central Montana Medical Center in Lewistown recently partnered with Shared Medical Services in order to provide PET/CT scan technology to the community.

Scan between the pet’s shoulder blades in a side-to-side “S” motion. If the scanner doesn’t detect a chip, rotate it 90 degrees and scan again between the pet's shoulder blades. Start at the pet’s ...

Experts in Japan have devised a simple way to glean more detailed information out of standard medical imaging scans. A research team made up of atomic physicists and nuclear medicine experts at the ...