"With this technique, we can now use PET with a wide range of radiotracers to help determine BBB health." The blood-brain barrier is a selectively permeable barrier that protects the brain from ...

PET to study the heart and brain to detect tumors or other types of infection. Both PET scans use a radioactive tracer to visualize specific body areas. Before the scan, a person is required to ...

A man has described how he and his dog both had brain tumours at the same time. Adrian Haynes had been slowly recovering ...

A PET scan is a test that creates 3 dimensional (3D) pictures of the inside of your body. PET stands for positron emission tomography. A PET scan uses a mildly radioactive liquid called a radioactive ...

The Wang Lab members who collaborated on the blood-brain barrier study using the UC Davis Health total body PET scanner EXPLORER. UC Davis Health’s first-of-its-kind total body scanner EXPLORER ...

How pleasurable music boosts μ-opioid receptor activity in the brain's reward centers, linking music to the body's natural ...

Researchers at the University of Turku have identified a new predictor for multiple sclerosis progression: the thickness of ...

Scientists suggest that targeting a key protein outside of the brain could help ... Mar. 5, 2025 — Scientists used positron emission tomography (PET) with edaravone, a drug used to treat ALS ...

In a comprehensive Genomic Press perspective article published today, researchers from Fudan University and Shanghai ...

The study measured the release of opioids in the brain using positron emission tomography (PET) while participants listened to their ... the more strongly their brains reacted in MRI scans. “These ...