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Nuclear Medicine: Page 297

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
Biodex launches new dose calibrator
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical imaging table and accessory supplier Biodex Medical Systems has introduced a range of upgraded molecular imaging products.
June 3, 2009
FDA gives GE's DaTscan priority review
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted GE Healthcare's new drug application for DaTscan (ioflupane iodine-123 injection) for priority review.
June 2, 2009
Report: GE hikes price of Tc-99m generators
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The global shortage of medical isotopes has prompted GE Healthcare to become the second company in less than three weeks to increase the price of its technetium-99m (Tc-99m) generators.
June 2, 2009
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