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Philips rolls out nuclear medicine upgrades

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Philips Healthcare is showcasing a number of new enhancements to its nuclear medicine portfolio at this week's annual SNM meeting in Salt Lake City.

June 6, 2010

Medrad inks PET deal with MGH

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Contrast injector technology firm Medrad has signed an agreement to provide technology to Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) for use in the institution's functional pulmonary PET imaging research.

June 6, 2010

Lantheus reports F-18 cardiac PET findings

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Lantheus Medical Imaging said that preliminary data presented today at the annual SNM meeting indicate positive results with its investigational flurpiridaz F-18 cardiac PET imaging agent.

June 6, 2010

Cardinal debuts data tools at SNM

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Cardinal Health is introducing real-time data integration tools for imaging centers and nuclear medicine facilities at this week's SNM annual meeting in Salt Lake City.

June 6, 2010

PET/CT may improve therapy for congestive heart failure patients

By Wayne Forrest

SALT LAKE CITY - German researchers have found that FDG-PET/CT can help determine when cardiac resynchronization therapy is ineffective, and it can identify risk factors that could alter the course of treatment for patients with congestive heart failure, according to a study presented Sunday at the SNM meeting.

June 6, 2010

SNM meeting opens with call for effectiveness research

By Wayne Forrest

SALT LAKE CITY - Appropriate comparative effectiveness research must be developed and utilized to justify the efficacy of nuclear medicine in guiding patient treatment and in the development of new technologies and pharmaceuticals, according to keynote speaker Larry Kessler, ScD.

June 6, 2010