Nuclear Medicine: Page 302

GE sets up joint venture in Qatar

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare is ramping up its activities in the Middle East, partnering with the Qatar Foundation to create a joint venture company to develop new products in the fields of healthcare IT, digital x-ray, and molecular imaging.

March 15, 2009

Cardinal opens PET cyclotron in Nebraska

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Cardinal Health has opened a cyclotron facility in Nebraska to manufacture fluorine-18 PET radiopharmaceuticals.

March 15, 2009

ProTom, MIT test accelerator

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

ProTom International and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bates Linear Accelerator Center have completed a successful test of proton beam acceleration and extraction from ProTom's compact proton therapy system after two months of installation and commissioning.

March 12, 2009

Siemens unveils 16-slice PET/CT

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare has introduced its new Biograph TruePoint 16-slice PET/CT system.

March 12, 2009

FDG-PET/CT helps predict osteosarcoma survival

By Wayne Forrest

A study from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has found that FDG-PET/CT can help determine progression-free survival, overall survival, and tumor necrosis among patients with osteosarcoma.

March 11, 2009

Siemens nets London PET/CT, CT installs

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare has completed three London installs of its PET/CT and CT systems.

March 10, 2009

3D CT detection of perfusion defects mirrors SPECT

By Eric Barnes

VIENNA - Three-dimensional images from normal coronary CT angiography scans are highly sensitive for detecting fixed perfusion defects compared to myocardial SPECT. A special reconstruction technique performed with customized software does the job without the need for additional radiation or contrast.

March 7, 2009

Digirad sells AZ, NV assets

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Nuclear medicine firm Digirad has sold the assets of its Arizona and Nevada service locations to Antigua Medical Services.

March 5, 2009

Neoprobe debuts high-energy probe

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Gamma camera probe developer Neoprobe has launched a high-energy gamma detection probe at this year's Society of Surgical Oncology's annual Cancer Symposium in Phoenix.

March 4, 2009

Positron places bets on PET-only Attrius system

By Wayne Forrest

Positron has had its ups and downs, to say the least, over the past decade, but the PET device developer thinks it now has a strategy and product to become a more prominent player in the nuclear medicine market.

March 3, 2009

NCRP report: CT drives massive increase in medical radiation dose

By Eric Barnes

The U.S. population's exposure to ionizing radiation from medical procedures grew more than sevenfold between the early 1980s and 2006 -- an increase largely attributable to spectacular growth in CT use, according to a report released today by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP).

March 2, 2009

B&W taps R&D head for medical isotope program

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) Technical Services Group has named Daniel Glenn as head of research and development for the company's medical isotope program.

February 25, 2009

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