Nuclear Medicine: Page 142

ASCO BCS research highlights benefits of mobile mammo, PET/MR

By Kate Madden Yee

Screening for breast cancer with mammography isn't perfect -- and neither are the modalities used to track women already diagnosed with the disease. At the recent American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Breast Cancer Symposium (BCS) in San Francisco, researchers discussed ways to find and track breast cancer more effectively.

September 14, 2014

Lawsuit attacks CMS policy on PET beta-amyloid scans

By Wayne Forrest

Three women have filed suit against the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS), seeking to invalidate the agency's reimbursement policy for PET beta-amyloid scans to detect early signs of Alzheimer's disease. The litigation charges that CMS overstepped its authority when it implemented the policy last year.

September 10, 2014

UltraSPECT, AIS partner in nuclear medicine

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

UltraSPECT has expanded an agreement with Absolute Imaging Solutions (AIS) to pair reconstruction software with gamma cameras.

September 7, 2014

Telik scores $1.5M contract for PET agent

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Telik has received a $1.5 million contract to continue the development of a PET imaging agent to detect and assess pancreatic cancer.

September 3, 2014

Shine secures $2.4M in investment cash

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Medical isotope firm Shine Medical Technologies has secured $2.4 million in financing.

September 2, 2014

MILabs signs Univ. of Pennsylvania

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Preclinical imaging developer MILabs has delivered a U-SPECT+ system to the University of Pennsylvania.

September 1, 2014

GE's Vizamyl gets European OK

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare has received clearance from the European Commission to market Vizamyl.

September 1, 2014

Ultralow-dose SPECT provides top image quality, less radiation

By Wayne Forrest

With an eye toward lowering radiation exposure, a group of researchers found that an ultralow-dose high-efficiency SPECT scan for myocardial perfusion imaging can achieve better image quality than standard low-dose SPECT, according to a study published in the September Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

August 28, 2014

IBA posts revenue increase in 1st half of 2014

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Proton therapy technology developer Ion Beam Applications (IBA) posted financial results for the first half of 2014.

August 27, 2014

PET shows how brain benefits from weight loss

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

PET images show how weight-loss surgery can curb alterations in brain activity associated with obesity and improve cognitive function involved in planning, strategizing, and organizing.

August 25, 2014

Dual-use probe combines optical, nuclear imaging

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Researchers from Ohio State University have completed a pilot study with a peptide-based molecule that could function as both an optical and nuclear imaging agent, with both therapeutic and diagnostic uses.

August 21, 2014

Cutting PET/MRI dose; more support for DBT; another sign of imaging's drop

By Brian Casey

August 20, 2014

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