A New Type of Prostate Cancer Imaging: Will 64CuCl2 PET/CT Flourish or Vanish?

Will the Web Vanish?

I t's sometimes argued that certain technologies become so pervasive that they " disappear. " We no longer agonize over what kind of electricity to supply to our house, via what kind of wires, from what kind of dynamo, and which sockets to install. It's standardized and all we see are the appliances that consume the electricity. Here, we're going to take a much narrower view of this question th...

Ultrasonic tissue-type imaging of prostate cancer

Prostate cancer (PCa) is diagnosed by means of needle biopsies typically guided by transrectalultrasound (TRUS). TRUS provides an inexpensive and effective means of visualizing gland anatomy and systematically directing each biopsy needle to a specific region within the gland. However, identification of cancerous regions in the prostate cannot be performed reliably using TRUS imaging or any oth...

Imaging Cellular Proliferation in Prostate Cancer with Positron Emission Tomography

Prostate cancer remains a major public health problem worldwide. Imaging plays an important role in the assessment of disease at all its clinical phases, including staging, restaging after definitive therapy, evaluation of therapy response, and prognostication. Positron emission tomography with a number of biologically targeted radiotracers has been demonstrated to have potential diagnostic and...

Breast cancer imaging: a new role of Tc-99m sestamibi prone scintimammography for diagnosisof breast cancer

Mammography remians the procedure of choice in screening asymptomatic women for breast cancer. However, in patients with symptoms, other types of imaging play an important role in the detection of malignancies. The high cost and lack of availability of PET and MRI largely precludes the use in this patient population. TI-201 is nbt the imaging agent of choice because of its wash-out and redistri...

PETCT in lung cancer staging