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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
MDS sells diagnostics unit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MDS, the Toronto-based parent company of radioisotope developer MDS Nordion, has sold its laboratory services business, MDS Diagnostic Services.
October 4, 2006
Gamma Medica-Ideas gets SPECT/MRI development grant
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma camera developer Gamma Medica-Ideas (GM-I) has been awarded a $100,000 grant to develop a SPECT/MRI small animal imaging system.
October 4, 2006
BioLucent debuts gamma camera MammoPad
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Mammography pad developer BioLucent has introduced a new MammoPad breast cushion designed for gamma camera imaging.
October 4, 2006
PET helps uncover dopamine's influence on alcoholism
By Wayne Forrest
Positron emission tomography (PET) is helping researchers determine if a connection exists between dopamine levels in the brain and the risk of alcoholism within a family, or the threat of relapse for a detoxified alcoholic.
October 4, 2006
GE releases FASTlab for PET radiopharma production
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has released its FASTlab chemistry system for PET radiopharmaceutical production.
October 2, 2006
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