Are tau PET scans 'lighting up' too much of the brain in Alzheimer's disease?

Tau proteins play an important role in Alzheimer's disease. Tau helps to stabilize neurons in the brain, but in Alzheimer's disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons. These tangles ...
European Medical Journal

Integrated PET and MRI May Identify New Dementia Type

PET and MRI scans may together distinguish a new type of dementia from Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a 2026 retrospective, ...
Medscape

PET Scan at Diagnosis May Help to Predict Aneurysm Risk in Patients With Giant Cell Arteritis

PET scans may serve as both a diagnostic and prognostic tool in giant cell arteritis (GCA), according to a new study. In over 100 patients with GCA who underwent 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET ...
Medscape

PET/CT Can Catch Cranial Giant Cell Arteritis Missed by Doppler Ultrasound

Digital FDG PET/CT can pick up cranial giant cell arteritis that may be missed on ultrasound because of a lack of trunk large ...
The Spokesman-Review

Ask the doctors: Pet scan create 3D images of the body at cellular level

PET scans examine the tissues of the body at a cellular level. Because these tests can measure metabolic activity, such as oxygen use, blood flow and the rate at which specific areas of the body are ...
techtimes

Medicare Lifts Lifetime Limit on PET Scans, Expanding Alzheimer's Diagnosis Options

A picture of a human brain taken by a positron emission tomography scanner, also called PET scan, is seen on a screen on January 9, 2019, at the Regional and University Hospital Center of Brest (CRHU ...
AOL

Will Medicare Pay for PET Scans?

Medicare Part B covers outpatient PET scans when ordered by a doctor and considered medically necessary. PET scan costs can vary depending on whether you have the scan in a hospital as an inpatient, ...
Lawrence Journal-World

LMH Health uses PET scans to benefit cardiac patients

Karin Rexroad peeks through the bore of the PET-CT scanner at LMH Health. Positron emission tomography, or PET, scans have long been used to diagnose cancer and determine how far it has progressed.
Forbes

Medicare Now Pays For A Common Alzheimer’s Test, But Is It Reliable?

WASHINGTON DC - JUNE 20, 2023 Jay Reinstein, who suffers from Alzheimer's, prepares to receive a PET scan at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. (Photo by Michael Robinson Chávez ...
CURE

New PSMA PET Scan Finds Returning Prostate Cancer Earlier at Low PSA Levels

A newer type of prostate cancer scan called 64 Cu-SAR-bisPSMA found more than twice as many cancer spots as a commonly used PSMA PET scan in men whose prostate-specific antigen (PSA) was rising after ...
University of California, San Francisco

Are Tau PET Scans “Lighting Up” Too Much of the Brain?

Tau proteins play an important role in our normal brain function, mainly by helping to stabilize neurons in the brain. But in Alzheimer’s disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons.