Latest News from PET
Autistic brains have fewer synapses compared to neurotypical brains, PET scans show.
- February 23, 2024
Six months of high-intensity aerobic exercise preserves the dopamine-producing neurons in the brain, a small pilot study finds.
- July 24, 2023
Tommaso Volpi, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, received a BIC Brain Imaging Council Travel Award at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) held in Chicago (June 24-27), for his abstract presentation entitled, “Discordant asymmetries of synaptic density, blood flow and glucose metabolism in temporal lobe epilepsy: a combined [11C]UCB-J and [18F]FDG PET study.”
- July 24, 2023
Qiong Liu, Graduate Student, Yale Biomedical Engineering, won a second place Cardiovascular Council Clinical Science Young Investigator Award at SNMMI 2023 for her abstract presentation entitled, “Dynamic Imaging and Tracer Kinetic Modeling of 18F-flutemetamol PET for Cardiac Amyloidosis Patients.”
- July 06, 2023
At the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging held in Chicago June 24-27, Richard Carson, Ph.D., presented the first human PET images acquired on the NeuroEXPLORER, an ultra-high performance brain PET imager. This system is currently being installed at Yale, and research PET imaging will begin in the coming weeks.
- May 22, 2023
Yale School of Medicine doctors and researchers with friends and family in Ukraine have organized to raise funds and equipment for overwhelmed hospitals in the embattled country.
- December 18, 2022
Rajiv Radhakrishnan, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been named co-medical director of the Yale Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Center.
- September 22, 2022
Ansel Hillmer, PhD, assistant professor of radiology and biomedical imaging and of psychiatry, has been awarded a federal grant to develop a new brain imaging tool to study the brain’s immune system.
- August 01, 2022
Dr. Chao Zheng, Associate Research Scientist, Yale University PET Center, has been awarded a 2022 Research Fellowship grant from the Alzheimer’s Association for PET Ligand Development and Application in Alzheimer’s Disease
- July 13, 2022
PET Investigators Receive Awards at SNMMI 2022