SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY Shear wave elastography is a newer ultrasound technology used to check tissue stiffness. A transducer delivers high-intensity pulses that produce shear waves, which create a higher-quality image. The concept is similar to strain elastography, but instead of using transducer pressure to compare a shift in an ultrasound A-line (thereby measuring changes in strain), a […]
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What is Positron Emission Tomography (PET)? Positron emission tomography (PET) is a type of nuclear medicine procedure that measures metabolic activity of the cells of body tissues. PET is actually a combination of nuclear medicine and biochemical analysis. Used mostly in patients with brain or heart conditions and cancer, PET helps to visualize the biochemical […]
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DOTATOC Scan – Prominent images for finer diagnosis In recent times, PET CT studies have gained much importance in detecting many diseases. In many diseases like neuroendocrine tumors etc often get missed on a standard FDG PET study. Ga-68 labeled PET studies are asked for such clinical situations. Alike standard PET scans, the G8-Ga labeled PET […]
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