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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
Astellas releases Lexiscan stress agent
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Astellas Pharma U.S. is making Lexiscan (regadenoson) injection available for use as a pharmacologic stress agent in radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging for patients unable to undergo exercise stress.
June 29, 2008
FDG-PET/CT trumps bone scintigraphy for young Hodgkin's lymphoma patients
By Wayne Forrest
Routine bone scans may be safely eliminated and replaced with FDG-PET/CT in the evaluation of higher-risk children, adolescents, and young adults with Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to a study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
June 29, 2008
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FDG-PET changes treatment plans for glioma patients
By Wayne Forrest
An Australian study is providing evidence that FDG-PET has an important impact on the management of patients with suspected recurrent glioma, and identifies those patients who are more likely to develop progressive disease.
June 25, 2008
Neoprobe launches new gamma detection system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma camera probe developer Neoprobe has introduced a new gamma detection control unit along with Ethicon Endo-Surgery of Cincinnati.
June 24, 2008
Carestream signs Geisinger
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health has provided Geisinger Health System with its In-Vivo Multispectral Imaging System FX optical molecular imaging system.
June 22, 2008
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