Tag Archives: Positron emission tomography

For Now, Preventive Efforts Are Best Alzheimer’s Weapon

June 14, 2013  DOI: 10.1176/appi.pn.2013.6b10 Aaron Levin   Several factors can help maintain the brain’s health as people age, says a geriatric psychiatry expert.   “The brain undergoes a lot of wear and tear as it ages,” geriatric psychiatrist Gary Small, M.D., explained at APA’s 2013 annual meeting in May. Small has spent a career seeking […]

ct scan

_ _ _ _ _ n CT, an x-ray source and x-ray detector housed in a doughnut-shaped assembly move circularly around a patient who lies on a motorized table that is moved through the machine. Usually, multidetector scanners with 4 to 64 or more rows of detectors are used because more detectors allow quicker scanning […]