Nuclear Medicine: Page 369

Positron, Neusoft enter joint venture

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

PET vendor Positron has formed a joint venture with Neusoft Medical Systems in Shenyang, China.

August 29, 2005

SPECT/CT pilots prostate brachytherapy in community setting

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

It can be difficult to adapt a technique that was developed in an academic venue for use in a community hospital environment. However, a group from Aultman Hospital in Ohio has taken a research-based SPECT/CT immunoscintigraphy-guided radiation therapy methodology developed at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and successfully adopted the protocol into its practice.

August 14, 2005

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