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Nuclear Medicine: Page 336

NM patient visits drop as discipline ponders future
By Brian Casey
October 15, 2007
Positron hires new VP
PET developer Positron of Houston has hired Kal Fishman as the company's new vice president of sales and marketing.
October 15, 2007
Report: Nuclear medicine patient visits drop in 2006
By Wayne Forrest
The total number of patient visits for nuclear medicine procedures declined in 2006, but shows a rebound in 2007, based on results for the first half of this year. The study by IMV Medical Information Division of Des Plaines, IL, estimates there were 15.2 million patient visits in the U.S. in 2006, compared with 17.2 million in 2005, a decline of 12% among 7,320 hospital and nonhospital sites.
October 15, 2007
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Siemens debuts Symbia E
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Medical Solutions is introducing its Symbia E series SPECT camera at this week's European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) annual congress in Copenhagen, Denmark.
October 14, 2007
NAS/IOM report sees hope and despair for nuclear medicine
By Cynthia E. Keen
Nuclear medicine is at a crossroads in the U.S., according to a new report by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM). The result of a 13-month study by a multidisciplinary team of experts, the report conveys optimism for future innovations and applications in nuclear medicine, but also reaches some sobering conclusions unless changes occur with research funding, radionuclide availability and cost, federal agency management, and the shortage of trained specialists and experts.
October 14, 2007
InSite One enters nuclear medicine market
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Archiving services provider InSite One of Wallingford, CT, has signed a co-marketing agreement with Technology Imaging Services (TIS), a company that serves the nuclear medicine, nuclear cardiology, and PET equipment market.
October 4, 2007
Gamma Medica sells units in Switzerland
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma camera developer Gamma Medica-Ideas of Northridge, CA, has installed several of its preclinical imaging systems at research institutes in Switzerland.
October 1, 2007
SNM adds track to annual meeting
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
SNM is adding a new scientific investigation track called "Novel Approaches to Molecular Imaging" to its schedule for next year's 55th annual meeting.
September 20, 2007
Report calls for more NM research funding
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Advances in nuclear medicine could improve healthcare, particularly in treatments tailored to a person's individual genetic makeup, according to a new report by the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
September 20, 2007
SPECT/CT offers better bone scan views to enhance treatment
By Wayne Forrest
Combining SPECT and CT into a single hybrid modality can improve physicians' views of bone scans, as well as the confidence levels of their own diagnoses. Two recent studies are showing SPECT/CT's value in managing cancer patients and patients with back pain.
September 20, 2007
Gamma Medica-Ideas makes Oklahoma install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma camera developer Gamma Medica-Ideas has made an installation of its dual-modality SPECT/CT preclinical imaging system at a site in Oklahoma.
September 18, 2007
Numa debuts NumaStore Lite at ASNC meeting
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine connectivity developer Numa of Amherst, NH, has launched its NumaStore Lite image management software for nuclear cardiology, PET, and multimodality imaging.
September 12, 2007
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