Medindia » News » Research News » Shorter TB Treatment Developed Using PET and CT Scans . Shorter TB Treatment Developed Using PET and CT Scans. by Jeffil Obadiah on Feb 25 2020 5:56 PM.

Experts believe that tuberculosis, or TB, has been a scourge for humans for some 15,000 years, with the first medical documentation of the disease coming out of India around 1000 B.C.E.

New tool for an old disease: Use of PET and CT scans may help develop shorter TB treatment. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 19, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 02 / 200224082804.htm.

PET and CT scans showing inflammation and the effects of pyrazinamide in the lungs of a patient with tuberculosis. Credit: Y.L. Xie et al., Science Translational Medicine (2021) ...

A new monitoring approach could help improve treatment of patients with tuberculosis (TB), researchers say. TB is an infectious disease that primarily affects the lungs. Treatment involves multiple ...

Sophisticated lung imaging can show whether or not a treatment drug is able to clear tuberculosis (TB) lung infection in human and macaque studies, according to researchers at the University of ...

The growth of CT use in children has been driven primarily by the decrease in the time needed to perform a scan — now less than 1 second — largely eliminating the need for anesthesia to ...