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Moly crisis leads to price hike for Lantheus technetium generators
By Wayne Forrest
The global crisis over supply of the molybdenum-99 radiotracer is forcing Lantheus Medical Imaging to sharply raise prices for its TechneLite technetium-99m generators. The company told customers this week that it is being forced to raise prices significantly in response to a price hike it's receiving from the company's major molybdenum supplier.
May 14, 2009
PDS wins clearance for NeuroPET scanner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PhotoDetection Systems (PDS) has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its NeuroPET scanner.
May 14, 2009
SNM Clinical Trials Network wins industry supporter
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The SNM's Clinical Trials Network, a project that addresses the need for streamlined drug discovery by using imaging biomarkers in multicenter clinical trials, has won another industry supporter.
May 13, 2009
AMI to use ACR Image Metrix
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Academy of Molecular Imaging (AMI) has signed on with the American College of Radiology's (ACR) Image Metrix division to provide data and image infrastructure for a new study.
May 12, 2009
CMS reconsiders cervical cancer FDG-PET coverage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medical Services (CMS) has opened a review of its coverage policies on FDG-PET for the staging of cervical cancer following the submission of a petition from several nuclear medicine physicians.
May 11, 2009
Molecular Insight lowers loss in Q1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lower drug development costs helped radiopharmaceutical developer Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals reduce its loss in the first quarter of 2009.
May 11, 2009
JNM publishes FDG-PET supplement
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The May issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine features an editorial supplement on the usefulness of PET imaging for the treatment of several cancers.
May 11, 2009
PETLinQ launches Web-based application
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PETLinQ has released SoftStationWeb, a thin-client Web-based application designed to view full PET/CT datasets with fused images.
May 11, 2009
AMI's PET/CT bone imaging trial enrolls patients
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Academy of Molecular Imaging (AMI) has enrolled the first 10 patients in a new clinical trial investigating the use of fluorine-18 sodium fluoride PET/CT to detect bony metastases.
May 11, 2009
IBA posts Q1 numbers, inks proton deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The effects of a lackluster worldwide economy resulted in a mediocre financial report from Ion Beam Applications (IBA) in the first quarter.
May 10, 2009
FDA OKs Siemens' 16-slice PET/CT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Biograph TruePoint 16-slice PET/CT system.
May 7, 2009
Positron Systems inks Mo-99 deal with Idaho State
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Positron Systems has signed an agreement with Idaho State University for the production of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), the precursor to the commonly used radioisotope technetium-99m.
May 7, 2009
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