Sentences with phrase «pet radiotracer»

The study indicates that the new agent — a PET radiotracer — is both safe and effective.

Now, using a novel PET radiotracer called Neuroflux, a team of researchers from the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the MassGeneral Institute of Neurodegenerative Disease has found a way to quantify olfactory sensory neurons and thus improve measurements of olfactory health.

The PET radiotracer C - 11 PBR28 was administered to eight healthy men around the age of 25, give or take six years, followed by two separate PET scans on the same day for each subject before and after injection with LPS.

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For this research, a total of 28 subjects were imaged with a variety of imaging modalities, including standard imaging with computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and molecular bone scan (SI); PET with a common radiotracer called fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG - PET); and PET with computed tomography and the agent Zr - 89 IAB2M (IAB2M PET / CT) assessed in escalated doses.

For the JCI study, the team applied the radiotracer to monitor olfactory sensory neuron population dynamics in a rodent model, using PET to measure its uptake across the animals» lifespan, including during age - related neurodegeneration.

For this study, 10 subjects with Alzheimer's underwent PET following the injection of three radiotracers: fluorine - 18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F - 18 FDG), which images regional metabolic activity; carbon - 11 Pittsburgh compound B (C - 11 PiB), which has an affinity for amyloid plaques; and F - 18 AV - 1451, an emerging imaging agent that binds to tau in the brain.

Their discovery could aid in the synthesis of new «radiotracers» — chemical compounds that contain a radioactive form, or isotope, of an element — for use with a noninvasive, high - resolution 3 - D medical imaging technology known as PET (positron emission tomography) scanning.

Positron emission tomography (PET) uses small amounts of radioactive materials called radiotracers, a special camera and a computer to help evaluate your organ and tissue functions.

Brookhaven scientist Joanna Fowler describes Positron Emission Technology (PET) research at BNL which for the past 30 years has focused in the integration of basic research in radiotracer chemistry with the tools of neuroscience to develop new scientific tools for applications in human health.

On Friday, October 19, 2012, the New York Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) named Brookhaven Lab's Chemistry Building an Historic Chemical Landmark, in recognition of the synthesis of 18FDG, the first successful radiotracer for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging.

San Diego, Calif. (Embargoed until 1:15 PM on Wednesday, June 15)-- Positron emission tomography (PET) with three different radiotracers can now measure amyloid plaques, tau tangles and metabolic activity in the brains of living Alzheimer's patients.

PET scan is an imaging test that helps reveal how patients» tissues and organs are functioning via a radioactive drug (radiotracer).