Moving towards the future: PET/CT
There is radiology, where usually one gets an ultrasound scan, or a normal X-ray, or even a CT scan done, and nuclear medicine where doctors are looking for pre-cancerous lesions or metastasis with...
View ArticleAlzheimer World Day
2007. september 20th, Thursday, was the offical world day for Alzheimer’s Disease (A.D). According to researchers, by the year 2050 there will be more than 100 000 000 people living with this illness...
View Article“Time-of-Flight” takes off in PET/CT
TOF or time-of-flight reconstruction is actually not a recent invention in tomography as its application in diagnostics was first proposed in the 1980s, but only recent technological improvements...
View ArticleWhat tomorrow brings?
The radiologist who sits in a dark room, interpreting films and rendering a report that someone looks at hours later is becoming a thing of the past. Well, does it? Of course, in this way, it couldn’t...
View ArticleThe whole brain Atlas
This morning we’ve received a very helpful comment from Y.S., who is running a medical blog also, prep4md.blogspot.com. He suggested, to visit the site of Harvard Medical School. The library I could...
View ArticlePET/CT Reader On Your iPhone
When the iPhone came out I said: “I gotta have one of this!” As I am entering the last year of medical school and edging more towards real clinical imaging work in the field of nuclear medicine I say :...
View ArticleMolecular Computer Tomography realized
Siemens Healthcare introduced Biograph mCT at the European Association of Nuclear Medicine conference in Munich, Germany. The latest addition to their scanner line-up offers: 5 minute whole body...
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