scans You might also have an mIBG scan, but this is less common now. mIBG stands for metaiodobenzylguanidine. Most NET cells have receptors on their surface. These attract and take up (absorb) certain ...

This will help people get diagnosed more easily. The test is a heart scan called Cardiac MIBG, which works because the nerves that control the heart are affected by DLB – it’s not only the brain that ...

MIBG has been widely used in radiolabelled forms (usually with iodine-131) since the early 1980s for the imaging and treatment of neuroendocrine tumours such as PPGL 3. After I-131 MIBG binds to ...

If this technique shows normal results, then an 18 F-FDG-PET scan of the whole body would be the next rational step. If a mass was found by CT, then mIBG scintigraphy (for a mass >2 cm ...