Each October, the Nobel Prizes celebrate a handful of groundbreaking scientific achievements. For George de Hevesy, the 1943 Nobel Laureate in chemistry who discovered radioactive tracers, that place ...

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For the first time, researchers have succeeded in passing an antibody through the blood-brain barrier to act as a tracer for PET imaging of the brain. This resulted in more precise information being ...

A new radioactive tracer for positron emission tomography (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging will soon be available in the United States, and it’s expected to facilitate substantial growth in such ...

To produce actinium-227, the isotope used for an FDA-approved cancer treatment, the first step is to bombard targets of the ...

A preclinical evaluation of a new ’dual-mode’ tracer agent shows promise in not only helping surgeons image and plan prostate cancer procedures, but also provide them with much more consistent and ...