Vanderbilt surgeons 1st perform intraoperative PET-CT breast surgery, enabling real-time cancer removal without follow-up procedures.

PET scans are a form of imaging scan that can take three-dimensional images of the inside of a person’s body. They can help a doctor detect and accurately stage someone’s liver cancer. Doctors might ...

Researchers compare success rates for addressing positive margins without intraoperative margin assessment with specimen PET-CT in patients with invasive ductal carcinoma.

The diagnosis of cancer leads to uncertainty, questions and challenges. Patients and families want to know about the seriousness of the condition, available treatment options and their chances of ...

A performance evaluation of the uEXPLORER total-body PET/CT scanner showed that it exhibits ultra-high sensitivity that supports excellent spatial resolution and image quality. Given the long axial ...

For the first time, physicians can examine the systemic burden of inflammatory arthritis simultaneously across all joints and organ systems, using the high-sensitivity, high-resolution uEXPLORER total ...

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a type of imaging scan that doctors might use when diagnosing and treating non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). It can be useful for identifying and staging the cancer.

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PSMA PET imaging for evaluation of recurrent or persistent prostate cancer after primary prostate radiation. Differences between whole body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) and chest/abdomen/pelvis ...