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Digirad shows Q3 revenue slump
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine vendor Digirad reported a fiscal 2006 third-quarter downturn in consolidated revenues, but said that it continued to make progress in trimming its net losses.
October 30, 2006
Study backs dual modality of microSPECT/CT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Mayo Clinic researchers say the combined technologies of microSPECT and microCT imaging can accurately quantify intratumoral radioisotope uptake in vivo, and the hybrid technique is more reliable than planar or microSPECT imaging alone.
October 25, 2006
Scintigraphy pegs potential responders to plantar fasciitis treatment
By Shalmali Pal
Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain but the differential diagnosis can include Achilles tendinitis, retrocalcaneal bursitis, and calcaneum fracture. Bone scintigraphy is often used to identify the source of heel pain, and the modality may play a predictive role in treatment as well, according to a new study by researchers from Australia and the U.K.
October 24, 2006
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Schaumburg promoted to top post at UltraSPECT
Nuclear medicine firm UltraSPECT has promoted John Schaumburg to the post of president.
October 23, 2006
Instrumentation, attenuation correction steer nuclear cardiology's future
By Eric Barnes
Nuclear cardiology modalities are seeing a resurgence of late, which is not to say the most widespread heart-imaging modalities were in decline. Still, recent technical improvements on multiple fronts, from detector technology to hybrid modalities like SPECT/CT and PET/CT, seem to have sharpened the modalities' future prospects as they have sharpened the images themselves.
October 22, 2006
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Tips for successful pediatric nuclear imaging
The prospect of scanning a pediatric patient can create fear and self-doubt in even the most experienced technologist. Yet most techs will encounter children as patients at some time and with some frequency. Nuclear medicine technologist Sandy Ferency of SPECT imaging provider Brain Matters in Denver shares some important tips to help achieve a good quality scan and a happy patient.
October 19, 2006
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Capintec, Numa collaborate
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine connectivity firm Numa has signed a development agreement with radiation measurement device developer Capintec of Ramsey, NJ.
October 16, 2006
IsoRay reaches seed century mark
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical isotope developer IsoRay reported that the Chicago Prostate Cancer Center (CPCC) of Westmont, IL, reached a milestone in prostate brachytherapy earlier this month by becoming the first cancer center to treat 100 patients using the company's cesium-131 seeds.
October 16, 2006
DRA threatens to throttle PET
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
PET and PET/CT proponents in the U.S. have fought long and hard to get their modalities included in the nonacademic diagnostic armamentarium. But their victories could be critically imperiled if reimbursement cuts mandated in the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005 are implemented as scheduled in less than three months.
October 12, 2006
Societies lay plans for NM physician extenders
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists and the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board this week said they were working together to create a new class of advanced nuclear medicine technologists, to be called nuclear medicine practitioners (NMPs).
October 11, 2006
Radiopharma market expected to double by 2012
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. market for diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, which was $1.69 billion in 2005, is expected to double to $3.52 billion by 2012, according to a recent study by market research firm Bio-Tech Systems.
October 9, 2006
Neoprobe debuts Bluetooth probe
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma camera probe developer Neoprobe introduced a new gamma detection probe at the American College of Surgeons annual meeting in Chicago.
October 9, 2006
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