Nuclear Medicine: Page 107

Is MBI a better alternative for dense breast screening?

By Kate Madden Yee

Almost half of women eligible for breast cancer screening have dense tissue -- a characteristic that can limit conventional mammography's performance. To work around this, clinicians need supplemental imaging modalities, and molecular breast imaging (MBI) is an effective option, according to a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

July 31, 2016

Zecotek reports PET milestone in China

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Photonic technologies developer Zecotek Photonics said a major manufacturer in China has assembled its first high-resolution PET scanner for testing using Zecotek scintillation crystals.

July 28, 2016

Digirad doubles Q2 revenues thanks to DMS purchase

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Nuclear medicine firm Digirad saw revenues for the company's second quarter more than double thanks to contributions from its acquisition of DMS Health.

July 28, 2016

Nuclear medicine training helps radiologists

By Wayne Forrest

Radiologists who receive training in nuclear medicine are still able to interpret anatomical imaging studies just as well as general radiologists, according to a new study. The research is good news for efforts to create a unified training program for hybrid imaging.

July 26, 2016

PET with tau agent sheds light on Alzheimer's disease

By Wayne Forrest

PET imaging of tau proteins with a novel radiotracer based on fluorine-18 is showing great promise in differentiating between Alzheimer's patients and cognitively normal individuals and identifying how the disease may develop, according to a study published online July 25 in JAMA Neurology.

July 24, 2016

UltraSPECT completes NJ installs

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Nuclear medicine firm UltraSPECT has installed its Xpress3.Cardiac software at four sites in New Jersey.

July 14, 2016

Shine names VP for product delivery

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Shine Medical Technologies has hired George Hansrote as vice president of project delivery.

July 12, 2016

Zecotek sells PET crystals to UC Davis

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Nuclear medicine firm Zecotek Photonics has won an order for its lutetium fine silicate (LFS) scintillation crystals from the University of California, Davis, which will use the crystals in its efforts to develop PET/MR technology.

July 11, 2016

PET/MRI technique shows promise for prostate cancer

By Wayne Forrest

The combination of F-18 choline PET and multiparametric MRI shows promise for detecting prostate cancer, according to a study in the July issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

July 11, 2016

Very low calcium scores do not guarantee negative MPI

By Wayne Forrest

Symptomatic patients with very low coronary artery calcium scores are almost as likely to have a positive SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) scan and a subsequent cardiac event as patients with higher calcium scores, according to a study presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging annual meeting.

July 11, 2016

Radiopharmaceutical market primed for growth

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The world radiopharmaceutical market will grow at a significant pace to reach $8.2 billion U.S. (7.41 billion euros) by 2022, according to a new report from Allied Market Research.

July 6, 2016

Dilon updates Navigator gamma probe

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Molecular breast imaging developer Dilon Diagnostics has released a new version of its gamma probe system for sentinel lymph node biopsy.

July 6, 2016

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