Nuclear Medicine: Page 144

FDG-PET/CT benefits breast cancer patients younger than 40

By Wayne Forrest

While guidelines recommend FDG-PET/CT only as an optional workup for women with stage III breast cancer, the hybrid modality can help women younger than 40 who have potentially aggressive stage II breast cancer, according to a study published online September 11 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

September 16, 2014

News from ASTRO 2014; ultrasound for stroke; Saudi radiation awareness

By Brian Casey

September 15, 2014

ASTRO: Imaging, radiation oncology increasingly work as one

By Eric Barnes

SAN FRANCISCO - Imaging is central to the unprecedented wave of medical specialties converging on cancer care. But it will take more than what today's radiologists are trained for to better understand cancer's mysteries, according to a keynote address by Dr. Hedvig Hricak, PhD, on Monday at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) meeting.

September 15, 2014

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

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