Nuclear Medicine: Page 343

Dilon sales grow in Q4

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Gamma camera developer Dilon Technologies of Newport News, VA, said that its fiscal 2006 fourth quarter saw strong sales for its breast-specific gamma camera.

March 27, 2007

AnazaoHealth provides teddy bears for pediatric I-123 MIBG patients

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The nuclear medicine division of AnazaoHealth has launched a program to provide a teddy bear to each child patient receiving an iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (I-123 MIBG) dose.

March 22, 2007

Avid releases results for PET Alzheimer's agent

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Molecular imaging developer Avid Radiopharmaceuticals of Philadelphia has released results of the company's first clinical study of a new radiopharmaceutical designed to provide PET imaging of Alzheimer's disease.

March 22, 2007

SPECT/CT offers on-target diagnosis in noncancerous bone disease

By Shalmali Pal

There's no shortage of research on SPECT/CT in oncologic imaging and the fact that bone scintingraphy has its limitations in this setting. But what about patients who are referred for nononcologic imaging? Is bone scintigraphy any more useful? No, according to nuclear medicine specialists from Israel, who advocated using SPECT plus multislice low-dose CT (MslCT) instead.

March 22, 2007

MDS Nordion to expand Belgian FDG facility

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radioisotope developer MDS Nordion of Kanata, Ontario, is investing $5.8 million (U.S.) to expand its production facility in Fleurus, Belgium, to meet the demand for the imaging agent fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F-18 FDG).

March 21, 2007

Tyco Healthcare names Wright as pharma/imaging president

Tyco Healthcare, a St. Louis-based subsidiary of industrial conglomerate Tyco International of Pembroke, Bermuda, has appointed Timothy Wright as president of its pharmaceutical and imaging solutions business units.

March 19, 2007

IBA increases sales and profit in 2006

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Buoyed by a 44% hike in European sales for its radioisotopes, nuclear medicine products firm Ion Beam Applications (IBA) posted sales growth and greater profits in 2006.

March 14, 2007

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

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