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Canadian agency OKs restart of Chalk River reactor
July 6, 2010
Canadian agency OKs Chalk River restart
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission on Wednesday gave its approval to Atomic Energy of Canada to restart its National Research Universal reactor in Chalk River, Ontario. Operations are expected to resume by the end of the month.
July 6, 2010
Medrad gets FDA OK for Intego
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Contrast injector technology firm Medrad has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market its Intego PET infusion system for F-18 sodium fluoride administration in PET imaging.
July 6, 2010
Moly crisis coming to a close? And, new USPSTF guidelines on bone density
By Brian Casey
July 5, 2010
Decision on Chalk River due this week
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is expected to rule this week on whether Atomic Energy of Canada can resume medical isotope production at its National Research Universal reactor in Chalk River, Ontario.
July 5, 2010
CMS to correct PET overpayments
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 6 will begin to correct for recent reimbursement overpayments for certain PET procedures and applications.
July 4, 2010
Carestream to close Canadian office
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health is closing its office in Summerside, Prince Edward Island.
July 1, 2010
AECL plans for late July restart
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL) expects medical isotope production at its National Research Universal reactor in Chalk River, Ontario, to begin by the end of July.
July 1, 2010
Covidien sees short July Tc-99m supply
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare technology firm Covidien anticipates technetium-99m (Tc-99m) will remain in short supply in the month of July.
July 1, 2010
PET/CT beats CT in NSCLC staging, but both have limitations
By Wayne Forrest
While no imaging or invasive procedure is foolproof for staging non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Danish researchers have found that PET/CT is more accurate than CT alone, though both modalities had a tendency to understage and overstage the cancer.
July 1, 2010
Optical imaging could aid radiotracer R&D
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A novel optical imaging technique called Cerenkov luminescence imaging could lead to faster and more cost-effective development of radiopharmaceuticals for diagnosing and treating cancer and other conditions, according to a study published today in the July issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
June 30, 2010
Dilon reports positive BSGI research
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI) developer Dilon Diagnostics said that researchers from George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC, are reporting favorable BSGI results in an article published in the June issue of Academic Radiology.
June 29, 2010
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