What Is a PET Scan? A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is a type of imaging study that can help doctors see what’s happening inside your body and how it’s working. This can help them understand ...

PET/CT is often explained as an "examination that can scan the whole body at once." When people hear "whole body," they usually assume it means from the top of the head to the tips of the toes.However ...

Primary aldosteronism has long been described as the hidden epidemic of cardiovascular medicine. It is the most common form ...

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 ...

A newly developed portable, point-of-care PET technology can image any organ, delivering high-quality results to guide interventional procedures. With real-time visual feedback, the bedside technology ...

The scan found 91 percent of dangerous tumors and correctly cleared most men who didn’t need a biopsy at all.

A high PSA blood test can be worrying, but it cannot tell doctors for certain whether a man has prostate cancer. New research suggests a specialized scan could give doctors another important clue ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming how one of medicine’s most information-rich cancer scans is read, and a new comprehensive review argues that lymphoma may be the field where the c ...

A virtual reality toolkit may be a feasible intervention for patients that experience anxiety or claustrophobia during PET or CT imaging.