Experts advise adjusting to a low carb, no-sugar diet 24 hours before your PET scan. Consuming sugar can interfere with the test results because the scan uses radioactive sugar as a tracer.

Alzheimer's disease, a type of dementia that profoundly alters a person’s memory and cognitive function, affects an estimated 6.7 million U.S. adults at least 65 years old, according to the ...

PSMA PET/CT trial will scan up to 1000 men in the UKA new kind of scan that could be key to improving the treatment of high-risk prostate cancer is ...

PET imaging is improved by employing edaravone to track oxidative stress, allowing for earlier detection of neurodegenerative ...

Not the Same. In amyloid-negative people (left) few tangles accumulate over a decade. In amyloid-positives (right), tangles grow faster in women (red) than men (blue). [Courtesy of Gillian Coughlan, ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have used positron emission tomography (PET) with edaravone, a drug used ...

Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) was a complication in about 10% of pulmonary sarcoidosis (PS) cases, investigators reported in Respiratory Medicine. The retrospective study assessed the prevalence, incidence ...

(UroToday.com) The 2025 APCCC Diagnostics annual meeting featured a session on how to monitor metastatic prostate cancer and ...

In this head-to-head study, people at different disease stages or healthy controls receive PET scans with two to four different tracers ... since it is the only FDA-approved tau tracer thus far, ...

One exam, a tau PET scan, relies on a radioactive tracer injected into the body to visualize tau protein in the brain. But it’s not often used in routine clinical practice because it’s ...