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Molecular Imaging to return leased equipment
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PET imaging services provider Molecular Imaging of San Diego said that it will return four mobile scanners to GE Healthcare Financial Services after talks broke down over the restructuring of an equipment leasing deal for the units.
August 9, 2005
XRI adds Lahey Clinic install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical imaging distributor XRI has installed a Dilon 6800 gamma camera from Dilon Technologies of Newport News, VA, at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA.
August 7, 2005
Cytogen revenues, losses rise in Q2
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Biopharmaceutical firm Cytogen reported fiscal 2005 second-quarter total product revenues of $4.1 million, up slightly from the $3.9 million posted in the same period last year.
August 3, 2005
CMS to limit nuclear medicine self-referral
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to revise the list of health services for which physicians are prohibited from self-referring their patients to include diagnostic nuclear medicine and therapeutic nuclear medicine.
August 1, 2005
Neoprobe Q2 sales up, but loss widens
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Gamma camera probe developer Neoprobe reported second-quarter sales of $1.7 million, up 26% compared with the $1.3 million posted in the second quarter of 2004.
August 1, 2005
Boston Life Sciences ends FluoroPharma deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Pharmaceutical firm Boston Life Sciences (BLSI) of Boston said it has reached an agreement with FluoroPharma to terminate a development agreement related to FluoroPharma's PET imaging agents.
July 26, 2005
Digirad posts Q2 downturn, brings Weatherhead on board
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine vendor Digirad reported fiscal 2005 second-quarter consolidated revenues of $15.5 million, down 11% compared with the $17.3 million turned in during the second quarter of 2004.
July 21, 2005
Pinhole SPECT shows promise for arthritis imaging
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
Multipinhole SPECT has long been used for preclinical animal imaging. But in the past few years, the technique has been introduced into the clinical setting, with prospective studies performed in parathyroid imaging, scintimammography, and ankle imaging. And now multipinhole SPECT shows promise in arthritis imaging as well, according to initial study findings from researchers in Germany.
July 21, 2005
UMC Utrecht launches high-resolution SPECT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Scientists at the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands have developed a prototype SPECT system, the U-SPECT-I, which has achieved spatial resolution less than 0.5 mm in animal models.
July 20, 2005
AuntMinnie.com Molecular Imaging Insider
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
July 17, 2005
Cervical tumor volumes on FDG-PET predict treatment outcome
By Shalmali Pal
FDG-PET offers an accurate way to assess cervical tumor volumes post-treatment, but the prognosis is particularly grim for patients who exhibit residual disease on PET scans after brachytherapy, according to radiation oncologists from the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in St. Louis.
July 13, 2005
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Lung PET rules when CT is equivocal, discordant
By Eric Barnes
Although PET's high cost ensures that CT and radiography will remain the first-line lung cancer detection modalities for at least the near future, PET can be very useful adjunctively in patients whose diagnosis remains uncertain in the light of available radiographic and clinical evidence.
July 11, 2005
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