When pregnancy is discovered during or after a diagnostic examination, the physician or the patient may request an estimate of the radiation dose received by the fetus as per guidelines and standard ...
Most patients do not begin their cancer journey knowing much about nuclear medicine or expecting it to become part of their care. They arrive there because something has changed, and other imaging ...
In recent years, targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) has emerged as a promising strategy for cancer treatment. In contrast to conventional radiotherapy, TRT delivers ionizing radiation to tumors in a ...
A joint task force of subject-matter experts from the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) recently released a revised and ...
Journal of Nuclear Medicine June 2026, jnumed.126.272258; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.126.272258 ...
The endogenous μ-opioid receptor (MOR) system plays a key role in the mammalian reward circuit. Human and animal experiments suggest the involvement of MORs in human sexual pleasure, yet this ...
Telomerase reverse transcriptase ( TERT ) promoter mutation has been reported to be associated with aggressive characteristics in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). This study examined the status of ...
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has achieved groundbreaking results in clinical cancer therapy; however, only a subset of patients experience durable benefits. The aim of this study was to explore ...
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a major cause of death in the United States (1), making accurate diagnosis critically important. Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is frequently used to diagnose ...
Within the EXPLORER Consortium, the construction of the world’s first total-body PET/CT scanner has recently been completed. The 194-cm axial field of view of the EXPLORER PET/CT scanner is sufficient ...
Esthesioneuroblastoma, which is also known as olfactory neuroblastoma, is a rare malignancy (incidence, 0.4 per million) accounting for 3%–6% of intranasal neoplasms (1,2). The pathology of ...
During the last 3 decades, PET has become a standard-of-care imaging technique used in the management of cancer and in the characterization of neurologic disorders and cardiovascular disease. It has ...