Essentia Health launches its new amyloid PET scan tool for early Alzheimer's detection and diagnosis, the first in the ...

A PET scan is often used to help determine a cancer diagnosis. A positron emission tomography (PET) scan uses a tracer with low levels of radiation to find places in your body where cells are ...

Learn about brain PET scans, how and why they’re performed, how to prepare for one, and the follow-up and risks.

PET scan is an imaging technique that uses a radioactive tracer to locate tissue differences at a molecular level. A lung PET scan is used to take images of the lungs and detect whether lung ...

A new machine at Nemours/Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children allows PET and MRI scans to be combined into a single image that enables surgeons to precisely remove parts of children’s brains to ...

PET scans require dietary preparation, sometimes up to 24 hours before your test, so it's important that you know what foods to eat before a PET scan.

Learn about the role of PET scans in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. This article looks at diagnosis, staging, how PET scans work, and more.

A heart PET scan is an imaging tool, offering information on blood flow and heart health. Learn more about how this scan helps with diagnosing heart conditions.

Medicare paid for only one amyloid-PET scan over a patient’s’ lifetime, reflecting uncertainty about its value. Now it pays for more, but are the tests reliable?

The standardized assessment for Alzheimer's disease includes a brain scan, and it's called a structural brain scan that can be either an MRI or a CT scan. This allows the doctor to see whether ...

What Is a PSMA PET Scan? A PSMA PET scan, or prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography scan, is a recently developed imaging test used for people with prostate cancer. It ...

PET scans require dietary preparation, sometimes up to 24 hours before your test, so it's important that you know what foods to eat before a PET scan.