Nuclear Medicine: Page 341

Eckert & Ziegler ends deal with RadQual

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiotherapy and radioisotope developer Eckert & Ziegler Isotope Products said that RadQual has informed the company that it has now developed its own process to manufacture gamma camera flood sources and that it is no longer using Eckert & Ziegler technology.

March 14, 2007

Automated emission correction shows potential for cardiac PET/CT

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

The CT portion of a hybrid PET/CT scan is commonly, and successfully, used for attenuation correction in these studies. Because acquisition during these exams is not simultaneous for each modality, nor is temporal resolution equivalent, the potential for data misregistration exists. Researchers from Germany have developed a method of automated emission correction that shows promise for image registration between the technologies, especially for cardiac studies.

March 8, 2007

SNMTS disburses scholarships

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The SNM Technologist Section (SNMTS) recently bestowed $50,000 in Paul Cole and Mickey Williams Minority Student scholarships for molecular imaging/nuclear medicine technologist students during its Mid-Winter Educational Symposium held in San Antonio.

March 5, 2007

Neoprobe Lymphoseek trial moves forward

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Gamma camera probe developer Neoprobe said that results from the first stage of a multicenter phase II clinical study of its Lymphoseek radioactive tracing agent support enrollment in the second stage of the study.

March 4, 2007

Positron gets solid-state patents

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

PET developer Positron of Houston has received patents for solid-state photodetector technology that the company said could be used to develop a new generation of medical imaging scanners, as well as radiation detection technology for homeland security use.

March 4, 2007

Bayer details job cuts, Schering integration

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

German pharmaceutical giant Bayer last week announced that it plans to cut 6,100 jobs as it seeks to integrate the activities of Schering AG into the company.

March 4, 2007

Refurbished equipment helps imaging facilities do more with less

By Brian Casey

Farida Razvi was facing a dilemma. As manager of the nuclear medicine department at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago, she wanted to replace the hospital's aging single-head gamma camera, a Prism system of Picker International vintage. But as a nonprofit community hospital, Mount Sinai faced serious budget constraints in terms of how much money it could commit to acquiring new technology.

February 28, 2007

IBA to install cyclotron in India

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Nuclear medicine products firm Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has signed a contract to deliver a Cyclone 30 cyclotron to the Indian Department of Atomic Energy.

February 25, 2007

Tumor > Neotect

By Scott Williams

February 19, 2007

MDS names Prince as CFO

MDS, the Toronto-based parent company of radioisotope developer MDS Nordion of Kanata, Ontario, said that Douglas Prince will be joining the firm as its executive vice president finance and chief financial officer (CFO).

February 19, 2007

Digirad's revenues advance in 2006

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The delivery of more gamma cameras meant greater revenues for nuclear medicine vendor Digirad in 2006, although the company still posted a loss for the year.

February 19, 2007

SPECT/CT improves sentinel node detection in overweight breast cancer patients

By Shalmali Pal

Excessive weight and a high body mass index (BMI) pose a host of complications in breast cancer patients. Nuclear medicine specialists have proposed using SPECT/CT in these women to improve sentinel node identification and spatial resolution, as well as overall image quality. SPECT/CT results in this population can directly affect surgical management, according to a study in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

February 13, 2007

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