Technical information for patients and the public on nuclear medicine equipment.
Researchers and patients alike are benefiting from a new imaging technology called ‘Long Axial Field of View (FOV) Positron Emission Tomography’, also known as ‘Total-Body PET (TB-PET)’. This technology advance enables molecular imaging studies to be performed at ultrahigh sensitivity, i.e. an order of magnitude or more higher sensitivity than Read more…
Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) is commonly used to evaluate the radiation dose delivered to target structures and normal organs in radionuclide therapy (RNT). SPECT imaging is hindered by poor spatial resolution, making it difficult to accurately quantify the dose delivered to target cancer lesions. This has, in part, Read more…
Breaking News When prostate cancer spreads throughout the body, and particularly to the bones, it is far more difficult to treat. Australian clinicians and researchers, with the assistance and fundraising efforts of ANZUP, the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and Movember, are at the forefront of using a precision pharmaceutical Read more…
