A team of international researchers queried 35 countries representing nearly 75% of all global nuclear medicine sites, publishing their findings in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
The money will help power 10 individual research cores, including one focused on using neuroimaging methods to analyze brain changes associated with the disease.
Including bone mineral density testing with patients' exams added no extra time and identified those at greater risk for fracture, Danish researchers explained recently.
One Stanford University School of Medicine radiologist is hopeful this will lay the groundwork for an entirely new subspecialty in nuclear medicine and radiology.