Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is the first place in North America to install an ultrafast PET/CT scanner the health system says will greatly boost its imaging quality, particularly for cancer ...

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 ...

Nigerians suffering from cancer and medical experts have lamented the lack of an important machine for cancer care called Positron Emission Tomography computer tomography (PET-CT) scan machine across ...

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In a little less than two years, 672 individuals donated nearly $3.2 million to help purchase a PET-CT scanner, a critical diagnostic tool that will keep Interior Alaskans close to home as they battle ...

UZ Leuven is the first hospital in the world to use a revolutionary scanner for brain research in patients. The new, highly ...

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.

A PET radiotracer that can visualize deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism wins the Society of Nuclear Medicine and ...

Essentia Health in Duluth now has a new tool to help diagnose Alzheimer’s, and it’s the first of its kind in the Northland. The amyloid PET Scan machine helps detect signs of the plaques that build up ...

Radiographer Harmit Ryatt operating the Gallium-68 pet/ct scan machine during the Launch of the HCG CCK Cancer centre KenyaCh Gallium-68 pet/ct scan services in Nairobi Kenya at the HCG Cancer centre ...