Dear Molecular Imaging Insider,
Hybrid imaging tends to thrive when colleagues from radiology, nuclear medicine, and medical physics collaborate. Today’s top story features a great example of just such collaborative work in Dublin.
The first F-18-PSMA-1007 PET study was performed at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in April 2022. Over the past three years, clinical staff have built up considerable expertise in this field, particularly for prostate cancer. A multidisciplinary team from the Mater presented its findings and cases at ECR 2025 and has agreed to let us publish some of its images.
In other news, researchers from Madrid have reported that combining diagnostic information taken from an amyloid PET scan and an FDG-PET scan can predict the progression to Alzheimer’s disease in patients from mild cognitive impairment.
Italian investigators have found that PET scans performed at one or three months after patients with large B-cell lymphoma begin chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy can indicate whether they are responding to the treatment. The discovery may provide valuable insights for clinicians, enabling more personalized and timely interventions.
A group from Turku, Finland, believes it has provided the first neuroimaging evidence that music affects the brain’s opioid receptor system. This finding is from an analysis in which 15 women underwent two PET scans, one before and then one while listening to their playlists, and it reveals new information on how the brain responds to sources of pleasure, according to the authors.
In another study from Finland, a team from Helsinki has validated the accuracy of a SPECT/CT measure for diagnosing transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR). The measure is called the “myocardium-to-blood ratio” and was 100% accurate for detecting ATTR cardiomyopathy in a group of patients with suspected disease.
These news stories are just a sample of the material we’ve posted during the last couple of months in the Molecular Imaging Content Area.
Philip Ward
Editor in Chief
AuntMinnieEurope.com
