PEM development picks up pace
Although FDG-PET has demonstrated its capability to identify breast lesions, whole-body PET may not be the most efficient technology to image breast cancer. Positron emission mammography (PEM), however, has several potential benefits over whole-body PET for breast imaging, according to researchers from Duke University in Durham, NC.
Bat saliva drug may widen treatment window for stroke
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters Health), Feb 7 - The study randomized 38 acute ischemic stroke patients within 3 to 9 hours of stroke onset. The investigators also used MRI perfusion/diffusion mismatch as an eligibility criteria.
New study questions benefit of trigeminal radiosurgery for cluster headache
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Feb 7 - Gamma knife treatment -- that is, trigeminal nerve radiosurgery -- for refractory chronic cluster headache results in a low rate of pain cessation and a high rate of nerve damage, French investigators report.
Iso-osmolar contrast comparable to low-osmolarity agents for PE
Iso-osmolar contrast agents do not offer significant advantages over low-osmolarity agents in arterial enhancement quality in CT angiography studies, a study published online in Radiology has concluded.
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