Society of Nuclear Medicine. (2016, June 13). PET/CT reveals adaptations of the alcoholic brain. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 26, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 06 ...

The PET imaging agent F-18 FPEB, which binds with mGluR5 receptors, was administered to 16 recently sober subjects, ranging from 32 to 57 years of age, and 32 healthy controls with no alcoholism ...

A PET scan is a type of imaging that can show what’s happening in your body. Learn why you might need one, what makes it different from other types of imaging, how to get ready, and what to expect.

A novel PET imaging approach has revealed distinct patterns of brain inflammation in patients with progressive apraxia of speech (PAOS), a rare neurodegenerative disorder that affects speech planning.

Highly active regions consume more glucose, and those regions are brightly lit during the PET scan, ... we still had no mechanism that could explain why alcohol was reducing these brain functions.

Imaging the moving brain Julie Brefczynski-Lewis (left), a research assistant professor in the WVU School of Medicine, and students Colson Glover (centre) and Nanda K Siva conduct a walking PET scan ...

A novel PET imaging approach can effectively quantify a key enzyme associated with brain inflammation, according to research published in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.The ...

Of the patients included, 752 underwent 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, or PET imaging, which is often used as part of cancer screening but can also show areas in the brain ...

A novel PET imaging approach can effectively quantify a key enzyme associated with brain inflammation, according to research published in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.The ...

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?