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Heart groups update cardiac radionuclide guidelines
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Cardiology Foundation, working with several other specialty societies, has updated its guidelines on cardiac radionuclide imaging (RNI), including both SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging and cardiac PET.
June 10, 2009
Facing Mo-99 shortage, nuclear medicine economizes
By Alexandra Weber Morales
What would a world without molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) look like? That's a question U.S. nuclear medicine physicians are contemplating as limited Mo-99 supplies decay by half every 66 hours.
June 10, 2009
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MDS begins CardioGen-82 production
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
On June 9, MDS Nordion began the manufacture of CardioGen-82 (rubidium-82 generator) for Bracco Diagnostics.
June 9, 2009
AECL offers update on reactor repair
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL) is continuing to remove fuel from its nuclear reactor at its Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario.
June 9, 2009
DOE, MSU ink isotope research deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Michigan State University (MSU) has signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to own and operate a $550 million nuclear physics research facility for rare isotope beams.
June 9, 2009
Scanning time trumps dose in FDG-PET/CT of large patients
By Wayne Forrest
A group of Japanese researchers has concluded that scanning for a longer period of time is more effective than increasing radiopharmaceutical dose for maintaining PET/CT image quality in large patients.
June 9, 2009
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Shared Imaging expands to Northeast
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging equipment distributor Shared Imaging has acquired the operating assets of PET Imaging Centers, a provider of mobile PET/CT services based in Morganville, NJ.
June 8, 2009
Aposense teams with GlaxoSmithKline
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Molecular imaging and therapy developer Aposense is collaborating with pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline to evaluate the potential of Aposense's ML-10 PET tracer in monitoring drug activity in clinical studies of cancer therapies.
June 7, 2009
FDA OKs new UltraSPECT feature
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine firm UltraSPECT has added a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-cleared half-dose imaging feature to its Xpress.Cardiac half-time wide-beam reconstruction (WBR) image reconstruction product.
June 7, 2009
GE reports PACS/NM integration, new installs
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare reported progress at last week's Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine meeting in integrating its PACS and nuclear medicine software.
June 7, 2009
CMS to consider paying for F-18 PET bone scans
By Brian Casey
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun a regulatory process that could lead to reimbursement for PET bone scans using the fluorine-18 (F-18) sodium fluoride radiopharmaceutical. Nuclear medicine advocates believe that PET bone scans could provide an alternative to SPECT bone studies, which use the technetium-99m radiopharmaceutical that is currently in short supply.
June 4, 2009
Naviscan enters licensing agreement
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PET developer Naviscan has signed a nonexclusive licensing agreement with an undisclosed imaging company for intellectual property.
June 4, 2009
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