EXPLORER total body PET scanner The EXPLORER Whole Body Scanner and its capabilities reminded me about the ‘Fantastic Voyage’.  The Fantastic Voyage was a 1966 American science fiction film about a submarine crew who were shrunk…

How can you determine what’s in a closed box? Computed Tomography  (CT) Scanner was invented in 1972 by  Godfrey Hounsfield a British engineer working at EMI Laboratories, England and the physicist Allan Cormack of Tufts University, Massachusetts. This was a…

Optic nerve imaging in glaucoma The ten cranial nerves exit from the human brain including the brainstem and relay information to other parts of the body.  One of these cranial nerves is the optic nerve (II) which is 50…

Diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound imaging The National Health Service in England carried out 42.1 million imaging tests in the year to March 2017 compared with 40.7 million in the previous year.  Plain X-ray radiography was the…

Myocardial perfusion imaging with technetium-99m myoview The most commonly used medical radioisotope especially in myocardial perfusion is the metastable nuclear isomer of technetium-99 and is known as technetium-99m (Tc-99m).This radioisotope was discovered in the 1950s by Walter Tucker and Margaret Greene at…