Miletich says nuclear medicine techniques exist to reveal both general regional physiology, such as glucose metabolism or blood perfusion, ... “In those cases, cerebral perfusion SPECT and glucose ...

“99mTc-HMPAO SPECT Study of Cerebral Perfusion After Treatment With Medication and Electroconvulsive Therapy in Major Depression” appears in the August issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine ...

Nuclear medicine provides imaging modalities that can be used to observe physiological processes in the human body, particularly in the bones, heart, lungs, renal system and brain.

A novel nuclear medicine imaging protocol can take the place of two separate imaging scans for the evaluation of brain changes linked to cognitive ... they can provide a measure of brain perfusion.

A newly developed PET radiotracer has shown the ability to produce high-quality images of real-time brain inflammation, ...

Brain injury survivors can benefit from the Canadian Association of Nuclear Medicine (CANM)’s recent adoption, ratification and endorsement of the Guidelines for Brain Perfusion Single Photon Emission ...

Fellows will also be exposed to advanced nuclear medicine techniques by way of multidisciplinary conferences, ... Additional capabilities include whole-brain perfusion imaging and dual energy ...

Since the 1990s, positron emission tomography (PET) brain imaging with the radiopharmaceutical flurodeoxyglucose (FDG) and brain perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging ...

Society of Nuclear Medicine. (2013, April 1). Early COPD diagnosis possible with nuclear medicine. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 16, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 04 ...

When applied to the brain, nuclear medicine techniques reveal critical information about the progression of the most devastating diseases, from Alzheimer’s to traumatic brain injury. Just last week, ...

Nuclear medicine provides imaging modalities that can be used to observe physiological processes in the human body, particularly in the bones, heart, lungs, renal system and brain.