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PET/CT saves money compared to CT in stem cell transplant patients
By Wayne Forrest
Healthcare providers in the U.S. can save approximately $150 million a year by using FDG-PET/CT, rather than CT, to more accurately identify patients who will benefit from autologous stem cell transplant, also known as a bone marrow transplant.
July 16, 2008
Dilon nets Amerinet deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Scintimammography developer Dilon Technologies has received a three-year agreement from group purchasing organization Amerinet.
July 15, 2008
Monrol to open PET facility in Dubai
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Turkish radiopharmaceutical producer Monrol plans to open a PET radiopharmaceutical production facility in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, early next year.
July 15, 2008
Neoprobe teams with DraxImage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma camera probe developer Neoprobe has inked a letter of intent to collaborate with DraxImage.
July 14, 2008
PET identifies spread of prostate cancer to lymph nodes
The video shows a mouse with prostate cancer under PET scanning. The large orange mass is the primary prostate cancer tumor, and the smaller orange ball is the spread to the lymph node. This process found the metastasis much earlier than it would otherwise have been found with conventional methods, when the cancer is easier to treat.
July 9, 2008
MDS sues AECL for $1.6 billion over Maple reactors
By Wayne Forrest
Canadian healthcare company MDS is suing Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL) for $1.6 billion ($1.58 billion U.S.) as part of an effort to compel AECL to resume work on new nuclear reactors to produce medical isotopes. At the heart of the dispute is AECL's decision in May to discontinue the development of two Maple nuclear reactors for medical isotope production at AECL's Chalk River Laboratories facility in Ontario.
July 8, 2008
Buyer's Guide Update: Hybrid imaging drives molecular imaging
By Brian Casey
July 6, 2008
Numa inks deal with BioDose
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine connectivity developer Numa has signed a deal with radioisotope tracking firm BioDose to develop an application to enhance the DICOM communications abilities of the BioDose system.
July 3, 2008
Solid-state scintimammography matches breast MRI
By Barbara Boughton
According to Mayo Clinic researchers, a solid-state scintimammography system had comparable sensitivity and specificity to MRI for breast evaluation and is four to six times less expensive. Their study was presented at the U.S. Department of Defense's Era of Hope conference in Baltimore.
July 1, 2008
Solis buys Dilon 6800
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Solis Women's Health is adding a Dilon 6800 gamma camera from Dilon Technologies to its imaging center in Central Plano, TX.
June 30, 2008
Positron licenses UT coronary program
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PET developer Positron has acquired an exclusive license to a coronary disease reversal and prevention program developed by the University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center at Houston.
June 30, 2008
AMIC signs Missouri
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical isotope producer Advanced Medical Isotope (AMIC) has signed an agreement with the University of Missouri to develop a compact device to produce radioisotopes.
June 30, 2008
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