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Whole-body PET better for palpable breast cancer
By Barbara Boughton
Whole-body FDG-PET has high sensitivity for detecting palpable breast cancer, but is less effective in detecting metastatic disease in axillary lymph nodes, according to researchers from Japan. The researchers evaluated whole-body FDG-PET in 80 women who had palpable breast tumors or positive uptake in whole-body PET scans, and presented their study results at the 2008 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting in San Diego.
May 1, 2008
Neoprobe posts Q1 revenue gains
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma camera probe developer Neoprobe announced revenue increases and a decreased net loss for its first quarter of 2008 (end-March 31).
April 30, 2008
PET drives growth in nuclear medicine market
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The popularity of PET procedures is driving overall growth in the nuclear medicine market, but it will adversely affect the sales of conventional gamma/scintillation cameras in the coming years.
April 29, 2008
Digirad signs deal with U. of Chicago
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine firm Digirad of Poway, CA, has signed an agreement with the University of Chicago Medical Center to provide cardiac diagnostic services to Chicago-area physicians and patients.
April 28, 2008
NMPI contemplates sale
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Mobile imaging firm Nuclear Medicine Professionals (NMPI) reported record revenues for its first quarter 2008, leading its managing partners to consider plans for the sale of the company.
April 24, 2008
Digirad Q1 results dip into red
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine firm Digirad posted higher revenues for the first quarter of 2008 due to an increase in mobile imaging service revenues, but the company slipped into the red for the period, the Poway, CA-based firm reported.
April 23, 2008
ACNP elects new president
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Nuclear Physicians (ACNP) has named Dr. Hazem Chehabi as its new president. The selection came at the Reston, VA-based organization's annual meeting.
April 22, 2008
Neoprobe gets OK for Lymphoseek study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma camera probe developer Neoprobe has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance to launch a phase III multicenter clinical study of its Lymphoseek radiopharmaceutical agent.
April 15, 2008
Biodex debuts new PET table
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical imaging table and accessory supplier Biodex Medical Systems has introduced a redesigned version of its PET Unit Dose table.
April 15, 2008
Dilon nets nine Q1 orders
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Scintimammography developer Dilon Technologies of Newport News, VA, received orders for nine Dilon 6800 gamma cameras in the first quarter.
April 10, 2008
New York hedge fund attempts to split MDS
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MDS, the parent company of radioisotope developer MDS Nordion of Kanata, Ontario, is the target of a New York City-based hedge fund that wants to break up the company to boost its stock price, according to the Calgary Herald.
April 10, 2008
Cedars-Sinai explores PET's future in nuclear cardiology
By Wayne Forrest
Dr. Daniel Berman has followed the progress of PET for more than three decades, to a point in which today Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is committed to exploring the modality's efficacy in a wide range of nuclear cardiology applications. He discusses Cedars-Sinai's latest research with rubidium-based PET for cardiac imaging.
April 10, 2008
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