A SPECT scan can show how well your heart is working. It can also help your doctor find the cause of any pain you have and see if you are having a heart attack. Before the scan, you'll get radioactive ...

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) tracers—radioactive compounds used in diagnostic imaging—are at the forefront of personalized medicine, aiding in accurate disease detection, staging ...

Researchers in the UC Davis Health Department of Radiology have developed a new way to use EXPLORER, the total-body positron ...

It uses a radioactive tracer that attaches to a marker on the surface of prostate cells. It allows doctors to spot the cancer much earlier, which means men with prostate cancer cells in their ...

Dunthorne has a clear ear for melodrama, opening the series with the line, “My grandmother grew up brushing her teeth with radioactive toothpaste.” Siegfried, we learn, in the 1920s had helped ...