Imaging

New Way to Do PET Scans

There’s a better way to do a PET scan, by using radiotracer fluciclovine (fluorine-18; F-18) (Journal of Nuclear Medicine, March 2017) According to researcher Ashesh B. Jani, MD, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, fluciclovine can improve imaging in recurrent prostate cancer patients with no additional radiation side effects. An improved PET [...]

By Malecare|2017-03-06T16:18:51-05:00March 6th, 2017|Advanced Prostate Cancer, Imaging, NaF-PET/CT, Radiation, Uncategorized|0 Comments

18F-Fluciclovine PET/CT Superior to 11C-Choline PET/CT for the Detection of a Prostate Cancer Relapse

We have all been ever increasingly aware of the weakness of our scanning technologies when it comes to both diagnosing prostate cancer and its recurrence. Given that about 1/3 of all primary treatments for prostate cancer will fail and the cancer will return it is vital that we improve our ability to detect prostate cancer [...]

By Malecare|2020-02-04T11:41:17-05:00June 28th, 2016|(18)F-FACBC, [11C] choline PET/CT, Advanced Prostate Cancer, Bio Chemical Recurrence, Choline C11, CT Scans, General Information, Imaging,