{"id":227436,"date":"2025-12-19T01:36:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/improved-tracer-labeling-expands-pet-imaging-possibilities"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:36:20","slug":"improved-tracer-labeling-expands-pet-imaging-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/improved-tracer-labeling-expands-pet-imaging-possibilities","title":{"rendered":"Improved tracer labeling expands PET imaging possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/improved-tracer-labeling-expands-pet-imaging-possibilities2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine being able to watch organs and tissues work in real time. That\u2019s the power of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging, a technology that gives physicians and researchers a window into cellular processes.<\/p>\n<p>In research recently <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.ady2969\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science<\/i>, Virginia Tech chemist Wei Liu and his graduate student Chao Wang have found a new way to tag molecules to aid in PET scans\u2014leading to improved processes, better imaging, and possibly more effective treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine being able to watch organs and tissues work in real time. That\u2019s the power of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging, a technology that gives physicians and researchers a window into cellular processes. In research recently published in Science, Virginia Tech chemist Wei Liu and his graduate student Chao Wang have found a new way [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}