Yale University researchers have discovered a new PET imaging method that could improve the care of type 1 diabetes patients. The test measures beta-cells' masses and could improve monitoring, according to research published online in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Read more.

Yale University researchers have discovered a new PET imaging method that could improve the care of type 1 diabetes patients. The test measures beta-cells' masses and could improve monitoring, according to research published online in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Read more.

Development of amyloid plaques in the brain characteristic of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is more likely to be associated with vascular risk factors in midlife than with those accumulated in later years. The results of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC)–Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Amyloid Imaging Study were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Read more.

Rare but aggressive, cancers of the bile duct can be added to the list of carcinomas for which PET scanning with the radiotracer ¹⁸F-FDG adds diagnostic and/or prognostic value, according to the authors of a study running in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Read more.