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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Cerebral perfusion and its relation with systemic circulation in extremely LBW (ELBW) infants in the early neonatal period are not well understood. The cerebral tissue oxygenation index (TOI) and ...

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.

The Section of Neuro-Nuclear Medicine is involved in routine brain SPECT imaging and several research projects. Routine brain blood flow or 18 F- Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) metabolism imaging (as ...